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board of health of which he is the secretary, as well as his own
official acts, and furnish a copy thereof, annually, in the month
of October, to the secretary of the State board of health,
together with such other information in regard to the sanitary
condition of his county as he may deem interesting or valuable
for publication in the biennial report of the State board of
health. This section not to apply to Baltimore county.

1888, art. 43, sec. 14. 1886, ch. 22, sec. 7.

29. Whenever any local or county health officer shall receive
reliable notice, or shall otherwise have reason to believe that
there is within the limits of his sanitary jurisdiction a case of
cholera, small-pox, or other disease dangerous to the public
health, he shall immediately investigate the matter and take
all proper steps for the restriction or suppression of such
disease or diseases; and the said county commissioners may
incur and pay, as other county expenses are paid, the necessary
and legitimate expenses thereof; he shall promptly notify the
secretary of the State board of health of the existence of any
epidemic or unusual sickness or mortality that may come to
his knowledge within his own sanitary jurisdiction or contigu-
ous thereto; and when thus informed, it shall be the duty of
the secretary of the State board of health to co-operate with
and aid the local health authorities in making scientific and
practical investigation into the cause or causes of any existing
disease, and in devising the most efficient means for its restric-
tion or suppression, or for the exclusion of any threatened
disease; and to this end he may exercise all the powers of the
State board of health.

Infectious Diseases—Small-Pox.

Ibid. sec. 15. 1882, ch. 155, sec. 1.

30. When the health authority of any city or town, or any
justice of the peace for any county, is of opinion, on the cer-
tificate of a qualified medical practitioner, that the cleansing
and disinfecting of any house or port thereof, and of articles
therein likely to retain infection would tend to prevent or
check infectious diseases, it shall be the duty of such authority
or justice of the peace to give notice in writing to the owner
or occupier of such house, or part thereof, requiring him or
her to cleanse and disinfect such house, or part thereof, and
articles, within a time specified in such notice; and if the
person to whom notice is so given fails to comply therewith,