ART. 43] TUBERCULOSIS. 1217

Tuberculosis.

1904, ch. 412, sec. 34 G.

56. The State board of health of Maryland shall keep a
register of all persons in this State who are known to be
afflicted with tuber6ulosis. The State board of health shall
have sole and exclusive control of said register, and shall not
permit inspection thereof nor disclose any of its personal par-
ticulars except to officials authorized under the laws of Mary-
land to receive such information.

Ibid. sec. 34 H.

67. The superintendent or other person in charge or control
of any hospital, dispensary, school, reformatory or other insti-
tution deriving the whole or any part of its support from the
public funds of the State of Maryland, or of any city, town or
county in the State of Maryland, having in charge or under
care or custody any person or persons suffering with pulmonary
or laryngeal tuberculosis shall, within forty-eight hours after
the recognition of such disease, make or cause to be made in
the manner and form prescribed by the State board of health,
a record of the name, age, sex, color, occupation, social con-
dition and residence of the person or persons so affected,
together with such other information as may seem necessary
or important; and all such records shall be delivered, under
seal, to the State board of health, on Monday of the week
immediately following that in which the records were made. Any
superintendent or other person charged with a duty under this
section who shall fail or refuse to comply with the require-
ments of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than twenty-
five dollars.

Ibid. sec. 34 I.

58. Whenever any physician knows that any person under
his professional care is afflicted with pulmonary or laryngeal
tuberculosis, he shall transmit to the secretary of the State
board of health, within seven days, and upon blanks provided
by the State board of health for that purpose, the name, age,
sex, color, occupation, social condition and residence of such
person. And any physician failing or refusing to comply with
the requirements of this section shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be subject to a
fine of ten dollars.