1216 HEALTH. [ART. 43

1696, ch. 436, sec. 34 D.

53. When any board of health has had notice of the occur-
rence within its sanitary jurisdiction of a case of small-pox or
any other contagious or infectious disease dangerous to public
health, such board of health shall, within twenty-four hours
after the receipt of such notice, notify the State board of health
of the same.

Ibid sec. 34 E.

54. All questions of doubt concerning the cause or nature
of any sickness believed or suspected to be of an infections or
contagious character shall be referred to the State board of
health; and the said board shall be authorized to employ a
competent bacteriologist to conduct inquiries into the nature,
source and vehicles of infectious disease. The services of the
bacteriologist of the State board of health shall be free to all
local boards of health and to all practising physicians in the
State for such inquiries concerning infectious and contagious
diseases as the said board may from time to time direct, and
to the State vaccine agent for testing vaccine virus; and the
sum of twenty-five hundred dollars annually, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, shall be paid by the treasurer of the State
upon the warrant of the comptroller at such times and in such
sums as may be authorized by the State board of health, upon
presentation of the proper vouchers for expenses.

Ibid. sec. 34 F.

55. Every person not a legally qualified physician, practis-
ing as midwife or acting as attendant upon woman in childbed
in this State, who shall find any lying-in woman to have fever
shall forthwith notify the health officer of the district, and
shall refrain from attendance upon any other parturient woman,
or woman in childbed, 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.