HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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which has come to his knowledge. It shall be his duty to
cooperate with the [State Board of Health] SECRETARY in the
enforcement of §§ 78 to 80 within his jurisdiction. The
[State Board of Health] SECRETARY shall prepare and
distribute to all [local] health officers, the printed forms
necessary to carry out the provisions of §§ 78 to 80.

99.

Any person affected with any disease whose virus or
infecting agent is contained in the sputum, saliva or other
bodily secretion or excretion, who shall dispose of his
sputum, saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion as to
cause offense or danger to any person or persons occupying
the same room or apartment, house or part of a house, shall,
on complaint of any person or persons subjected to such
offense or danger be deemed guilty of a nuisance. And any
person subjected to such a nuisance may make complaint in
person or writing to the commissioner of health of Baltimore
City or the [local] health officer of any [city, town or]
county in the State of Maryland where the nuisance
complained of arises or exists. And it shall be the duty of
the commissioner of health or of any [local] health officer
receiving such complaint to investigate, and if it appears
that the nuisance complained of is such as to cause offense
or danger to any person occupying the same room, apartment,
house or part of a house, he shall serve a notice upon the
person so complained of, reciting the alleged cause of
offense or danger, and requiring him to dispose of his
sputum, saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion in
such a manner as to remove all reasonable cause of offense
or danger. And any person failing or refusing to comply
with orders or regulations of the health commissioner of
Baltimore City or of the health officer of any [city, town
or] county requiring such nuisance to be abated, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
shall be fined ten dollars; provided, that the requirements
of this section shall apply only to pulmonary and laryngeal
tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza and such other diseases
as the [State Board of Health] SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND
MENTAL HYGIENE may from time to time determine to be
communicable by means of sputum, saliva or other bodily
secretion or excretion.

100.

Whenever any hotel keeper, keeper of a boardinghouse,
lodginghouse, superintendent, manager or director of a
hospital or private or public institution of any kind shall
know or shall have reason to believe that any guest, inmate
or other person in the hotel, boardinghouse, lodginghouse,
or institution of which he or she may have control or
supervision, or on the premises thereof, is sick with or
convalescing from smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, typhus or
typhoid fever, scarlet fever, leprosy or any other
contagious or infectious disease, the said owner,
proprietor, manager, or other person having charge shall