PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1527

plant, public or private, is, or is likely to become, prejudicial
to health or comfort, it shall order that said source of water or
ice supply shall be closed, or said point of sewage discharge, or
method of disposal of sewage or refuse, abandoned; or the Board
may order that such works or devices shall be installed, or such
measures instituted, as shall be sufficient to remedy existing
conditions, if in its judgment such conditions can be remedied
in a practical manner by said works, devices or measures. In
case a public or private system of water supply, sewerage or
refuse disposal is condemned by the. State Board of Health, the
Board may order such arrangements made by the owner of said
system or plant as will effectually prevent its operation. The
State Board of Health shall specify such date for compliance
with any order provided for in this Section as it may deem rea-
sonable and proper.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That whenever a system
of water supply or sewerage, serving the public, is directly
available to any property upon which there exists a spring,
well, cesspool, privy, sink drain or private sewage disposal
plant, which is or may become prejudicial to health, the State
Board of Health may order said property to be connected with
the water supply or sewerage system, and the spring, well, cess-
pool, privy, sink drain or private sewage disposal plant aban-
doned and left in such a way that it cannot be again used nor
become injurious to health. The State Board of Health shall
be empowered to prevent the construction of any proposed well,
cesspool, privy, sink drain or private sewage disposal plant
whenever or wherever it may deem that the proposed construc-
tion would be prejudicial to health. After the passage of this
Act no privy shall be built within the State of Maryland, except
it be of such construction as will effectually prevent any contact
of fecal matter with the soil and also access to such matter by
flies. The State Board of Health shall be the judge as to whether
or not any privy is built in conformity with this rule, and
if it shall find that the regulation has not been strictly complied
with, it shall condemn the structure and shall order that such
changes be made as will be sufficient for compliance with this
provision.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the State Board of
Health shall have supervision and control over the surround-
ings of any source from which either surface or underground
water, for potable purposes, is collected for delivery in con-