ART. 43.] TUBERCULOSIS. 1221

1904, ch. 399, sec 4.

64. Any physician or person practising as a physician who
shall fail to execute the duties herein prescribed, or who shall
knowingly report as affected with pulmonary or laryngeal tuber-
culosis any person who is not so affected, or who shall wilfully
make any false statement concerning the name, age, color, sex,
address or occupation of any person reported as affected with
pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis, or who shall certify falsely
as to any of the precautions taken to prevent the spread of
infection, shall be deemed guilty of fraud, and on conviction
thereof shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars, or to
imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both fine and impris-
onment, in the discretion of the court.

Ibid. sec. 5.

65. The State board of health shall prepare and keep on
hand all the circulars, blanks and printed matter required by
the preceding section and all additional printed matter neces-
sary in executing these provisions, and shall issue the same in
sufficient quantity to the local boards of health upon due requi-
sition of the latter; and the said State board of health shall
further purchase and issue upon due requisition to the local
boards of health the supplies herein required. For the pur-
pose of defraying the expenses of printed matter and postage,
for recompensing physicians for measures of prophylaxis, and
for purchasing and issuing the supplies necessary in carrying out
these provisions the sum of five thousand dollars annually or
as much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated,
payable by the treasurer of the State upon warrant of the
comptroller at such times and in such sums as may be author-
ized by the State board of health upon presentation of the
proper voucher.

1890, ch. 622, sec. 1.

66. Whenever any physician or person acting as a physician
shall know or shall have cause to believe that any person whom
he has attended during the last illness of such person in this
State, outside the limits of the city of Baltimore, has died of
small-pox, cholera, yellow fever, typhoid or typhus fever, diph-
theria, leprosy, or any other disease of a contagious, infectious
or epidemic character, the said physician or person acting as a
physician shall, over his own signature, immediately give notice
thereof to the secretary of the State board of health, which
notice shall state the cause of the death, the name, age, sex and