328 HEALTH. [ART. 43

from attendance upon any other parturient woman, or woman in
child bed, until the local health officer shall give her written
permission to resume such practice. Every mid-wife, obstetrical
nurse or other person, not a legally qualified physician, attending
for pay or hire, upon any lying-in-woman, or woman in child-bed,
shall send his or her name and address to be registered in
the office of the registrar of vital statistics for the city, town or
county in which he or she resides. And every person violating
the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding one hundred
dollars or imprisoned not exceeding six months, or be both fined
and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.

1890, ch. 622

34 G. Whenever any physician or person acting as a physician
shall know or shall have cause to believe that any person whom
he has attended during the last illness of such person in this
State, outside the limits of the city of Baltimore, has died of
email-pox, cholera, yellow fever, typhoid or typhus fever, diph-
theria, leprosy, or any other disease of a contagions, infectious or
epidemic character, the said physician or person acting as a phy-
sician shall, over his own signature, immediately give notice
thereof to the secretary of the State board of health, which
notice shall state the cause of the death, the name, age, sex and
color of the deceased, and such other information in connection
with the existence and spread of the disease, as may be deemed
important for the protection of the public health; and if no phy-
sician has been in attendance during the last illness, or at the
time of the death of such person, then it shall be the duty of the
householder, in whose house or upon whose premises the death
occurred, to transmit to the secretary of the State board of
health the facts in accordance with the requirements of this sec-
tion. ,

Ibid.

34 H. Whenever any hotel keeper, keeper of a boarding or
lodging-house, superintendent, manager or director of a private
or public institution of any kind, shall know, or be informed by
a physician, or shall have reason to believe that any guest, inmate
or other person in the hotel, boarding-house, lodging-house or