West Virginia Code § 17-5-7

Medical inspection of convict camps
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It shall be the duty of the state road commissioner to designate some competent physician or
physicians to make inspection of all camps where a convict road force is employed. It shall
be the duty of such physician to make thorough investigations of the sanitary conditions of
such camps each sixty days and report every inspection to the Governor, together with such
recommendations as he may deem necessary; and he shall furnish copies theereof to the
warden of the penitentiary, the state road commissioner, the West Virginia board of health,
and the local board of health of the county in which such camp is locaterd. A reasonable
compensation to the physician rendering such services shall be paid by the commissioner.

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