1206 HEALTH. [ART. 43

$50 per annum for each 5,000 of population in excess of
15,000.

1902, chs. 475, 515, sec. 11A.

26. Whenever any legally qualified medical practitioner or
any two or more persons affected thereby shall make a com-
plaint in writing to a local board of health that any water
course, well, spring, open ditch, gutter, cess-pool, drain, privy-
pit, pig-pen or other place or any accumulation or deposit of
any substance is in a condition dangerous to human health,
the said local board of health shall immediately institute an
investigation, and if it shall decide that the place or thing
complained of is in such a condition as to injuriously affect
the life or health of any person, the said board shall serve a
notice in writing on the person, firm or corporation by whose
act, default or sufferance the place or thing complained of is
in such a condition as to injuriously affect the life or health of
any person, the said board shall serve a notice in writing on the
person, firm or corporation by whose act, default or sufferance
the place or thing complained of arises or exists, requiring
him or them to abate the same within a time to be specified
in the notice, and any person, firm or corporation refusing or
neglecting to comply with the requirements in such notice
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine
of not less than one nor more than ten dollars for the first
offense, and for each subsequent offense in reference to the
same place or thing be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
This section not to apply to Baltimore county.

1888, art. 43, sec. 12. 1886, ch. 22, sec. 5.

27. Such local board of health shall take cognizance of all
unhealthy nuisances within the limits of its sanitary juris-
diction; and any person or corporation refusing or neglecting,
after due notice, to comply with the requirements of the said
board in this respect shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
fifty dollars; all questions arising between local boards as to
jurisdiction or their relative duty in the abatement of any par-
ticular nuisance shall be referred to the State board of health
for settlement.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1886, ch. 22, sec. 6. 1902, ch. 515.

28. It shall be the duty of every county health officer, imme-
diately after his appointment, to transmit to the secretary of
the State board of health his full name and postoffice address;
he shall keep an accurate record of the proceedings of the local