HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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[8.

Each deputy State health officer, under the direction
of the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene and the
Commissioner of Health shall have jurisdiction throughout
his district; and he shall have the right of entry into any
workshop, factory, dairy, creamery, slaughterhouse, or other
place of business or employment, or into any private house,
when in pursuit of his official duties. He shall carry out
the instruction of the Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene and/or the Commissioner of Health and shall make
such investigations and reports as said Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene and/or the Commissioner of Health may
require. He shall, when required by the Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene and/or Commissioner of Health, inspect
and report upon the sanitary conditions of streams and
sources of public water supply, sewerage facilities, schools
and schoolhouses, dairies, creameries, slaughterhouses,
workshops, and factories, and all places where offensive
trades or industries are conducted in his district. He
shall respond promptly when called upon for advice or
assistance by any board of health or health officer within
his jurisdiction, and it shall be his duty and he is hereby
authorized to enforce any public health statute, or rule, or
regulation of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene,
or the Commissioner of Health or of any local board of
health or health officer within his district, when such
local board of health or health officer neglects or refuses
to enforce such statute, rule or regulation, after due
notice by him or by the Secretary of Health or Mental
Hygiene and/or the Commissioner of Health. He shall keep
himself informed as to the work of each local health officer
within his district, and aid each local health officer
within his district in the performance of his duties, and
particularly on the appearance of any communicable disease.
He shall purchase samples of food and drugs for analysis
when directed to do so by the Commissioner of Health; and
promote an efficient registration of births and deaths
within his district, and in addition he shall have and
perform such other duties as are or may be imposed upon him
by the Secretary of Health or Mental Hygiene and/or the
Commissioner of Health.]

[9.

Whenever the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene or
Commissioner of Health or deputy State health officer shall
have assumed jurisdiction over any health condition in this
State, the local health authorities shall assist them in the
performance of their duties.]

[10.

The Commissioner of Health, with the approval of the
Secretary, shall have power to remove any deputy health
officer from any sanitary district into any other sanitary