930                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 405

from smallpox and such other communicable diseases as may be
prescribed from time to time by regulation of tide State Department
of Health. THE LIST OF APPROVED VACCINATIONS AND
IMMUNIZATIONS SHALL BE PRESCRIBED BY THE DEPART-
MENT IN COOPERATION WITH THE MEDICAL AND CHI-
RURGICAL FACULTY OF MARYLAND. EXCEPT DURING AN
EMERCENCY OR EPIDEMIC OF DISEASE DECLARED BY
THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, NO CHILD, WHOSE
PARENT OR GUARDIAN OBJECTS IN WRITING TO VACCINA-
TION OR IMMUNIZATION UPON THE GROUND THAT IT
CONFLICTS WITH THE TENETS AND PRACTICE OF A
RECOGNIZED CHURCH OR RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION OF
WHICH HE IS AN ADHERENT OR MEMBER, SHALL BE
REQUIRED TO PRESENT SUCH EVIDENCE OF VACCINA-
TION IN ORDER TO BE ADMITTED TO SCHOOL.

85.    School Health Program.

Each county board of education WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF
THE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT shall provide adequate
school health services, instruction in health education, and healthful
school environment. The State Department of Education and the
State Health Department shall develop jointly public standards and
guidelines for school health programs and offer assistance to county
boards of education and health departments in their implementation.

86.    Workers in schools must be free from tuberculosis in a com-
municable stage; evidence to be furnished.

No person having tuberculosis in a communicable stage shall be
permitted to work in any capacity in any public, private, or parochial
school in the State of Maryland. At the time of initial employment,
and on an annual basis thereafter, each employee must furnish evi-
dence to the school administration, in a manner approved by the
health officer, that he is free of tuberculosis in a communicable state.

87.    Physical Education.

There shall be required in all the public schools of this State a
program of physical education that is provided in a planned and
sequential manner to all students, kindergarten through grade 12,
for the development of their good health, physical fitness, and their
improvement in motor coordination and physical skills.

88.    Program of Safety Education.

There shall be organized and administered in accordance with
the bylaws, rules and regulations of the State Board of Education
a program of Safety Education in the public schools of this State.

89.    Protective eye devices.

Every student and teacher in any school or other educational
institution participating in any of the following courses:

(a) Vocational or industrial art shops or laboratories involving
use of or exposure to:

(1)    Hot molten metals;

(2)  &