HEALTH 1911

become, dangerous to health, or that the discharge of sewage or the method
of disposal of sewage or refuse, from any system or plant, public or private,
is, or is likely to become, prejudicial to health or comfort, it shall order
that said source of water or ice supply shall be closed, or said point of
sewage discharge, or method of disposal of sewage or refuse, abandoned; or
the Board may order that such works or devices shall be installed, or such
measures instituted, as shall be sufficient to remedy existing conditions, if
in its judgment such conditions can be remedied in a practical manner by
said works, devices or measures. In case a public or private system of
water supply, sewerage or refuse disposal is condemned by the State Board
of Health, the Board may order such arrangements made by the owner of
said system or plant as will effectually prevent its operation. The State
Board of Health shall specify such date for compliance with any order pro-
vided for in this Section as it may deem reasonable and proper.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 340. 1912, sec. 281. 1914, ch. 810, sec. 13.

384. Whenever a system of water supply or sewerage, serving the
public, is directly available to any property upon which there exists a
spring, well, cesspool, privy, sink drain or private sewage disposal plant,
which is or may become prejudicial to health, the State Board of Health
may order said property to be connected with the water supply or sewerage
system, and the spring, well, cesspool, privy, sink drain or private sewage
disposal plant abandoned and left in such a way that it cannot be again
used nor become injurious to health. The State Board of Health shall be
empowered to prevent the construction of any proposed well, cesspool,
privy, sink drain or private sewage disposal plant whenever or wherever
it may deem that the proposed construction would be prejudicial to health.
After April 16, 1914, no privy shall be built within the State of Maryland,
except it be of such construction as will effectually prevent any contact of
fecal matter with the soil and also access to such matter by flies. The State
Board of Health shall be the judge as to whether or not any privy is built in
conformity with this rule, and if it shall find that the regulation has not been
strictly complied with, it shall condemn the structure and shall order that
such changes be made as will be sufficient for compliance with this provi-
sion.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 341. 1912, sec. 282. 1914, ch. 810, sec. 14.

385. The State Board of Health shall have supervision and control
over the surroundings of any source from which either surface or under-
ground water, for potable purposes, is collected for delivery in containers;
and it shall also assume jurisdiction over the method of collecting, bottling
and delivering such waters. After April 16, 1914, no such waters shall be
collected, bottled or delivered until a written permit so to do has been
issued by the State Board of Health to the owner of such supply. No such
permit will be issued if the State Board of Health determines that said
water is in any way injurious to the public health. Corporations, companies
and persons handling potable waters, shipped from points outside of the
State of Maryland, shall receive permits to sell waters only upon presenta-
tion to the State Board of Health of a permit issued by the State Board of
Health of the State from which the water is collected, stating that the source
of such water supply and the method of handling the water, as practiced
within the limits of that State, are such as not to be prejudicial to the public