Chap. 283. —An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1491 of the Code or ‘ee
Approved March 15, 1924.

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1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen hundred and ninety-one of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1491. Compensation of members of board; duties.—The
members of the State board of health shall receive no salary, but each
member shall be paid a per diem of eight dollars for the time actually
engaged in the discharge of his duties, together with his actual expenses
incurred therein, to be paid out of the board’s funds.

The board shall establish and maintain in the city of Richmond
suitable laboratories for the examination of clinical material submitted
by members of the medical profession of the State, and such examina-
tion shall be made free of charge. The board shall also make research
and studies of infectious diseases, of epidemics, and of methods of pre-
venting and of curing diseases. It shall forthwith make inquiry into
the altitude, moisture and other climatic conditions in various parts
of the State, with a view to determining the most suitable locations
therein for the treatment of tuberculosis, and the establishment of
tuberculosis sanitariums, and shall investigate the best methods of
treatment, with a view to preventing and curing such diseases. The
board shall begin the erection and maintenance of temporary or per-
manent buildings or camps for the treatment of tuberculosis in such
localities as are proper, and at such sanitariums they shall provide for
the treatment by the most advanced methods of the tuberculosis
patients in the State at a minimum expense to the patient.