152 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 75

State Board of Health [, one to be the Director of the State
Department of Health]; one (1) member from the Faculty
of the Medical School of Johns Hopkins University; one (1)
member from the Faculty of the Medical School of the Uni-
versity of Maryland, to be named by the governing body of
the respective Medical Schools; one (1) Maryland hospital
administrator named by the Maryland-District of Columbia
Hospital Association; the Director of the State Department
of Welfare; one (1) dentist appointed by the governing body
of the Maryland State Dental Association; one (1) Nurse,
appointed by the Board of Directors of the Maryland State
Nurses Association; the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene;
[the Superintendent of the Tuberculosis Sanatoria of Mary-
land; ] one (1) member appointed by the Executive Board
of the Maryland Medical Association, and one (1) pharma-
cist to be named by the governing body of the Maryland
Pharmaceutical Association. Each member shall serve for
a term of two years,

(d) The State Board of Health may make, ordain, alter,
amend or abolish rules and regulations for the administra-
tion and government of [said Bureau and said] chronic dis-
ease hospitals, and for the admission and discharge of per-
sons therein or therefrom, and for the medical care of in-
digent and medically indigent persons, or either of such
classes, which rules and regulations in so far as they are
within the power of said Board and are consistent with law,
shall be binding on all persons whomsoever, upon compliance
with the provisions of Section 7 A of Article 41 of the An-
notated Code (1943 Supplement).

49. Whenever any legally qualified medical practitioner
or any two or more persons affected thereby shall make a com-
plaint in writing to a local board of health that any water
course, well, spring, open ditch, gutter, cesspool, drain, privy-
pit, pigpen or other place or any accumulation or deposit of
any substance is in a condition dangerous to human health,
the said local board of health shall immediately institute an
investigation, and if it shall decide that the place or thing
complained of is in such a condition as to injuriously affect
the life or health of any person, the said board shall serve a
notice in writing on the person, firm or corporation by whose
act, default or sufferance [the place or thing complained of
is in such a condition as to injuriously affect the life or health
of any person, the said board shall serve a notice in writing
on the person, firm or corporation by whose act, default or
sufferance] the place or thing complained of arises or exists,
requiring him or them to abate the same within a time to be
specified in the notice, and any person, firm or corporation