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more, or intended for consumption therein, as by ordinance
may be prescribed.

75. One of the Assistant Commissioners of Health, who
shall be a legally authorized practicing physician in good stand-
ing, shall be assigned to the performance of the duties of Quar-
antine Hospital Physician. He shall reside permanently on
the grounds attached to the hospital on the southern shore of
the Patapsco River, and known as the Quarantine Hospital of
the Port of Baltimore, and shall superintend all the affairs of
the hospital and the adjacent grounds, under the direction of
the Commissioner of Health. Whatever powers have been
heretofore granted by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
in regard to quarantine regulations, to the Board of Health, are
hereby transferred to the Commissioner of Health, subject to
alteration, amendment or repeal by ordinances not inconsistent
with this Article.

76. In consideration of the duties to be performed by one
of the Assistant Commissioners of Health as Quarantine Hos-
pital Physician, said officer shall hereafter receive, in lieu of all
commissions and fees, a salary of three thousand dollars per
annum, payable monthly, and he may occupy the dwelling on
the hospital grounds free of charge, but all expenses incurred
for his support, or that of his family, shall be defrayed out of
his salary. The other Assistant Commissioner of Health shall
be allowed a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, payable
monthly.

77. The Commissioner of Health shall annually appoint a
Vaccine Physician for every two contiguous wards of the City
of Baltimore, who shall be a resident of one of the wards for
which he may be appointed, if practicable; who shall vaccinate
in his wards all such persons as may be designated by the Com-
missioner or Assistant Commissioners of Health as susceptible
to small-pox contagion, and whose duty it shall be to visit each
dwelling-house in the wards for which he is appointed, and vac-
cinate every person who may be presented to him for that pur-
pose, and to be prepared at his office, at such hours as may be
designated by the Commissioner of Health, to vaccinate all who