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of any person so suffering, so exposes such sufferer, or gives,
lends, sells, transmits or exposes, without previous thorough dis-
infection, any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things which have
been exposed to infection from any such disorder, shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment
not exceeding twelve months, or both, in the discretion of the cir-
cuit court for the county or criminal court of Baltimore.

1882, ch. 155, sec. 5.

19. Any person, parent or guardian or other party who care-
lessly carries about children or others affected with infectious
diseases, or who knowingly or wilfully introduces infectious per-
sons into other persons' houses, or permits children under his or
her care to attend any school, theatre, church or any public place
where they will be brought in contact with others, shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars for each and
every such offence.

Ibid. sec. 6.

20. Every owner or driver of a public conveyance shall imme-
diately provide for the disinfection of such conveyance, in a
manner to be approved by the local health authority, after it has
conveyed any one suffering from a dangerous infectious disorder,
or the corpse of any one who has died from any such disorder;
and if he fails to do so, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceed-
ing twenty-five dollars; but no such owner or driver shall be
required to convey any person so suffering until he has been paid
a sum sufficient to cover any loss or expense incurred by him in,
carrying into effect the provisions of this section.

Ibid. sec. 7.

21. Any person who knowingly lets for hire any house, room
or part of a house in which any person has been suffering from,
any dangerous infectious disorder, without having such house,
room or part of a house and all articles therein liable to retain,
infection, disinfected to the satisfaction of a qualified medical
practitioner, as testified by a certificate signed by him, shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars;
and any person letting for hire or showing, for the purpose of
letting for hire, any house or part of a house or room, who, being