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An. Code, 1924, sec. 78. 1912, sec. 65. 1904, sec. 52. 1898, ch. 436, sec. 34C. 1916, ch. 243.

78. The health officers of cities, towns, counties and districts shall keep
record of all reports and notifications received in pursuance of Sections
76 and 77, and such record shall contain the names of all persons who are
sick with infectious or contagious diseases, the localities in, which they
live, the disease with which they are affected, together with the date of
such reports, the names of persons reporting any such cases, and the record
of quarantine, isolation, disinfection and other preventive measures. The
Board of Health shall give the school boards of health of their respective
counties, cities, or towns immediate information of cases of infectious or
contagious diseases reported to them according to this sub-title. The State
Board of Health shall prepare and furnish to all local health officers printed
forms for the recording and preservation of information required by Sec.
tions 77 to 79.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 79. 1912, sec. 66. 1904, sec. 53. 1898, ch. 436, sec. 34D: 1916, ch. 243.

79. Whenever any health officer of city, town, county or district shall
be notified of the occurrence of a case of smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever,
typhoid fever, yellow fever, malarial fever, or any other contagious or
infectious disease, within his sanitary jurisdiction, he shall take imme-
diate steps to prevent the spread of the disease. He shall give, notice in
writing to the school authorities of any contagious or infectious disease
affecting school children, or likely to endanger the health of school chil-
dren. He shall within twenty-four hours transmit to the State Board of
Health such information as he has obtained concerning every case of in-
fectious or contagious disease which has come to his knowledge. It shall
be his duty to cooperate with the State Board of 'Health in the enforcement
of sections 77 to 79 within his jurisdiction. The State Board of Health
shall prepare and distribute to all local health officers, the printed forms
necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 77 to 79.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 80. 1912, sec. 67. 1904, sec. 54. 1898, ch. 436, sec. 34E. 1908, ch. 399.

80. All questions of doubt concerning the cause or nature of any sick-
ness believed or suspected to be of an infectious or contagious character
shall be referred to the state board of health, and the said board shall be
authorized to employ a competent bacteriologist and assistant bacteriolo-
gist and such other employes as may be necessary to render effective the
provisions of this section; to conduct inquiries into the nature, source and
vehicles of infectious diseases. The services of the bacteriologist of the state
board of health shall be free to all local boards of health and to all prac-
ticing physicians in the State for such inquiries concerning infectious and
contagious diseases as the said board may from time to time direct, and to
the state vaccine agent for testing vaccine virus; and the sum of thirty-
five hundred dollars annually, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall
be paid by the treasurer of the State upon the warrant of the comptroller,
at such times and in such sums as may be authorized by the state board of
health upon presentation of the proper vouchers for expenses.