330 HEALTH. [ART. 43

tagious or infectious disease has existed; and any person who
shall sustain damages by reason thereof, shall receive compensa-
tion in accordance with the provisions of section 16 of this
article; if any person shall violate or refuse, or neglect to com-
ply with any such regulation, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding
fifty dollars.

1890, ch. 622.

34 if.. In any town or village where no special health depart-
ment has been established, the State board of health is hereby
empowered to make such rules and regulations in relation
to the care and cleansing of privies, pig-pens and other
noxious places, as they may deem desirable for the preservation of
the health of any of the inhabitants thereof, or the said board
may declare any such privy, pig-pen or other noxious place a
nuisance, and the abatement thereof be by the said board, or its
executive officer, ordered and enforced.

Ibid.

34 N. Any violation, or neglect or refusal to comply with any
rule or regulation of the said board under sections 34 G to 34 M,
both inclusive, shall be deemed to be a misdemeanor, and shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisonment in
the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both such fine and
imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Ibid.

34 O. Upon complaint made in writing by the State board of
health, or its executive officer, before any justice of the peace,
charging the commission of an offense against the provisions of
said sections 34 G to 34 M, both inclusive, it shall be the duty of
the State's attorney of the county or town, in which such offense
is committed, to prosecute the offender.

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Practitioners of Medicine.

1892, ch. 296.

39. Every person not now practising medicine and surgery,
who shall hereafter begin to practise medicine and surgery in
any of its departments, except dentistry, in the State of Mary-
land, shall possess the qualifications required by this sub-title of
this article.