332 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 180

45E. Such health officer shall maintain an office where
shall be kept all the records and data pertaining to his duties.
Such office shall be kept open from nine A. M. to four P. M.
daily except Sunday. The County Health Officer shall give to
his duties so much of his time as may be necessary for the
proper performance of the same, and shall meet with and
report to the County Commissioners monthly and oftener if
they so desire. He shall receive a salary of Three Hundred
. Dollars per annum out of which he shall pay his own travel-
ling and office expenses, excluding phone tolls, stationery and
postage.

45F. It shall be the duty of said County Health Officer to
give to the State Board of Health, the local board of health
for Howard County, and such other health officers as may
properly demand the same, all such professional advice and
information as they may require, with a view to the preserva-
tion of the public health in Howard County; to enquire into
the health of the County, and whenever he shall hear of the
existence of any malignant, contagious or pestilential disease
in the County, to investigate such report and ascertain as cor-
rectly as possible the cause which produced said disease, to
adopt measures to arrest its progress, and to report in writing
to the Secretary of the State Board of Health every circum-
stance in connection therewith; and shall placard the premises
in which any malignant, contagious or pestilential disease oc-
curs for such period as he thinks the public safety demands;
and also to perform such other duties appertaining to the health
of the county as may from time to time be imposed upon him
by the Local Board of Health.

45H. The County Health Officer and the District Health
Officer so appointed shall within ten days of the date of their
appointment meet in Ellicott City, and shall organize a board
of sanitary officers for Howard County. The County Health
Officer shall be ex officio president and executive officer of
the said board. They shall meet quarterly in Ellicott City
on such days as may be designated by the County Commission-
ers. The District Health Officers shall, in -their respective dis-
tricts, exercise all the powers and perform all the duties which
shall hereafter be prescribed by the Public General Laws of
Maryland, for secretaries of Local Boards of Health, under
the direction of and subject to the approval of the County
Health Officer, for which services they shall receive no further
compensation. They shall have general care of the sanitary in-