ART. 43.] DUTIES OF SECRETARY. 779

whenever directed by the governor or legislature, make special
inspections of public hospitals, asylums, prisons and other institu-
tions, and shall, at each regular session of the legislature, submit,
through the board, a full report of his investigations, with such
suggestions and recommendations as he may deem proper; he
shall, when required by the governor or other State authorities,
advise in regard to the location, drainage, water supply, disposal

of excrement, heating and ventilation of any public institution or
building belonging to the State; he shall collect information con-
cerning vital statistics, prevailing diseases and the general hygiene
of the State; and through a biennial report and otherwise, as the
board may direct, shall disseminate such information among the
people; he shall receive from the treasury, in monthly payments,
an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, to be paid on the
warrant of the comptroller, out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.

1880, ch 438, sec. 7.

6. The secretary shall be the superintendent of vital statistics;
he shall collect, tabulate and index these statistics, and cause the
returns received by him for each annual and biennial period, to be.
bound together in one volume; and after he has prepared from
the returns such tabular results as will render them of practical
utility, he shall deposit them in the State library; and in order to
secure uniformity and correctness, all State and county officers,
local health authorities and other persons, charged with collecting
or recording marriages, births and deaths in the State, shall quar-
terly, on or before the first days of January, April, July and
October in each year, make true and correct returns to the said
superintendent of vital statistics, who shall have the same properly
transcribed in books to be kept for the purpose; and shall, in the
event of an unusual mortality in any particular locality, make im-
mediate inquiry into the same and report the results thereof to
the board; for the duties imposed by this section, and to defray
the necessary clerical and other expenses of his office, the superin-
tendent of vitai statistics shall receive a sum not exceeding two
hundred dollars in any one year, to be adjusted by the board.

7. No member of the board, except the secretary, shall receive
any compensation; but the actual personal expenses of any mem-