REGISTRATION 
OF 
TUBERCULOSIS. 
CHAPTER 412, ACTS OF 1904. 
Adding New Sections to Article 43 of the 
Code of Public General Laws. Section 34g. Be it enacted by the General Assem- 
bly of Maryland that from and after the passage of this 
act the State Board of Health of Maryland shall keep a 
register of all persons in this State who are known to be 
affected with tuberculosis. The State Board of Health 
shall have sole and exclusive control of said register, 
and shall not permit inspection thereof nor disclose any 
of its personal particulars except to officials authorized 
under the laws of Maryland to receive such informa- 
tion. 
Section 34h. The superintendent or other person 
in charge or control of any hospital, dispensary, school, 
reformatory or other institution deriving the whole or 
any part of its support from the public funds of the 
State of Maryland or any city, town or county in the 
State of Maryland, having in charge or under care or 
custody any person or persons suffering with pulmonary 
or laryngeal tuberculosis shall within fort}7-eight hours 
after recognition of such disease make or cause to be 
made in the manner and form prescribed by the State 
Board of Health a record of the name, age, sex, color, 
occupation, social condition and residence of the person 
or persons so affected, together with such information as 
may seem necessary or important. And all such records 
shall be delivered under seal of the State Board of Health 
on Monday of the week immediately following that in 
which the records were made. Any superintendent or 
other person charged with a duty under this section who 
shall fail or refuse to comply with the requirements of 
this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than 
twenty-five dollars. Section 34i. Whenever any physician knows that 
any person under his professional care is affected with 
pulmonary or laryngeal tuberculosis he shall transmit to 
the secretary of the State Board of Health within seven 
days and upon blanks provided by the State Board of 
Health for that purpose the name, age, sex, color, occu- 
pation, social condition and residence of such person and 
any physician failing or refusing to comply with the re- 
quirements of this section shall he deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be subject 
to a fine of ten dollars. 
Section 34j. The apartments occupied by any con- 
sumptive shall be deemed infected and when vacated by 
death or removal of said consumptive occupant shall be 
disinfected by the board of health of the city, town or 
county in which such apartments are situated. And it 
shall be the duty of the householder, physician or other 
person having knowledge of the facts to notify the local 
board of health within forty-eight hours after the death 
or removal of a person affected with pulmonary or laryn- 
geal tuberculosis. And any person failing to comply 
with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty 
of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be sub- 
ject to a fine of ten dollars. 
Section 34k. Any person who lets for hire or 
causes or permits anyone to occupy apartments pre- 
viously occupied by a consumptive, before such apart- 
ments shall have been disinfected by a board of health 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction 
thereof shall be fined twenty-five dollars. 
Section 2. And be it enacted that this act shall 
take effect from the date of its passage. 
Approved April 8, 1904.