HARRY HUGHES, Governor                               2157

may call public conferences of health officers; or may send
a delegate to any conference of [local, State or national;
health officers.

31A.

(a) (2) "Health officer" means the Baltimore City
Commissioner of health or the [county] health officer for
the. county in which a laboratory is located.

97.

The [State Board] SECRETARY of Health AND MENTAL
HYGIENE shall prepare and furnish the [local] health
officers, THE BALTIMORE CITY COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, or the
physician attending any person infected with tuberculosis,
upon due requisition, such printed instructions and
precautions and such supplies and materials as [it] THE
SECRETARY shall deem necessary for the prevention of the
spread of the disease.

98.

Whenever a licensed practitioner of medicine shall
report, in writing, to [the deputy State] A health officer
or the Commissioner of Health of Baltimore City that a
person having, or suspected of having tuberculosis in a
communicable stage is so conducting himself or herself in
public places, streets, shops, inns, taverns or public
conveyances, that others are exposed to infection, or the
[deputy State] health officer or the Commissioner of Health
of Baltimore City has knowledge that such is the case, [said
deputy State] THE health officer or the Commissioner of
Health of Baltimore City may make or cause to be made such
examination as he deems necessary of the person about which
complaint is made, to ascertain if such person actually has
tuberculosis in a communicable stage. If such findings are
positive, the [deputy State] health officer or the
Commissioner of Health of Baltimore City may order such
person removed to a health center for the treatment of
tuberculosis and such person shall remain in such
institution until declared in such condition that his or her
discharge from such health center will not be dangerous to
the community in which he or she may live. If any person
ordered removed to any health center for the treatment of
tuberculosis shall refuse to comply, or having been admitted
shall conduct himself or herself in a disorderly manner or
leave such institution before being properly discharged, he
or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof before a circuit court, shall be committed to a
penal institution having facilities for the treatment of
tuberculosis until considered by the [State Department of
Health] SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE or the Health
Department of Baltimore City in such a condition that such
person is no longer dangerous to the health of the
community. Nothing in this section shall be construed or
operate to empower or authorize the [deputy State] health