ART. 43] TUBERCULOSIS. 1219

regulations of the health commissioner of Baltimore city or of
the health officer of any city, town or county requiring such
nuisance to be abated, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined ten dollars ;
provided, that the requirements of this section shall apply
only to pulmonary and laryngeal turberculosis, pneumonia,
influenza and such other diseases as the State board of health
may from time to time determine to be communicable by means
of sputum, saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion.

1904, ch. 399, sec. 2.

62. It shall be the duty of the physician attending any case
of pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis to provide for the
safety of all individuals occupying the same house or apart-
ment, and if no physician be attending such patient this duty
shall devolve upon the local health board, and all duties made
incumbent upon the physician in the following sections shall
be performed by the local board of health in all cases of pul-
monary or laryngeal tuberculosis not attended by a physician
or when the physician is unwilling or unable to perform the
duties specified.

Ibid. s'ec. 3.

63. It shall be the duty of the local board of health to
transmit to the physician reporting any case of pulmonary or
laryngeal tuberculosis a printed report, after the manner and
form to be prepared and authorized by the State board of
health, naming such procedures and precautions as in the opin-
ion of the State board of health are necessary or desirable to
be taken on the premises of the said tuberculosis case, and it
shall be the duty of the State board of health to print and
keep on hand a sufficient number of such report blanks and to
furnish the same in sufficient number to any local board of
health upon due requisition of the latter. Upon receipt of the
blank report the physician shall fill, sign and date the same and
return to the local board of health without delay; provided,
that if the attending physician is unwilling or unable to under-
take the procedures and precautions specified he shall so state
upon this report, and the duties herein prescribed shall then de-
volve upon the local board of health. Upon receipt of this re-
port the. local board of health shall carefully examine the same,
and if satisfied that the said attending physician shall have
taken all necessary and desirable precautions to insure the safety
of all persons living in the house or apartments occupied by