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SEC. 40. Whenever any local or county health officer shall
receive reliable notice, or shall otherwise have reason to be-
lieve that there is within the limits of his sanitary jurisdiction
a case of cholera, smallpox or other disease dangerous to the
public health, he shall immediately report such notice to the
local board of health, and upon obtaining the approval of such
local board of health investigate the matter and take all proper
steps for the restriction or suppression of such disease or dis-
eases; and the local boards of health shall incur and pay, as
other expenses are paid, the necessary and legitimate expenses
thereof; he shall promptly notify the Secretary of the State
Board of Health of the existence of any epidemic or unusual
sickness or mortality that may come to his knowledge within
his own sanitary jurisdiction or contiguous thereto, and when
thus informed, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the
State Board of Health to co-operate with and aid the local
health authorities in making scientific and practical investiga-
tion into the cause or causes of any existing disease, and in
devising the most efficient means for its restriction or sup-
pression or for the exclusion of any threatened disease, and to
take such steps as may be necessary to prevent the spread of
such disease or diseases; and to this end he may exercise all
the powers of the State Board of Health.

SEC. 2. And ~be it further enacted, That all Acts and parts
of Acts inconsistent with this Act be and the same are hereby
repealed.

Approved April 9, 1920.

CHAPTER 315.

AN ACT to repeal Section 91 of Article 43- of the Annotated
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title
"Health," sub-title "Tuberculosis," and to re-enact the
same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 91 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Health," sub-title "Tuberculosis," be and¹
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as;
follows:

SEC. 91. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Health
to transmit to the Health Officer of the city, town, district or