39-902. REPORT TO HEALTH OFFICER — WARNING OF DANGER — TREATMENT OF INDIGENT CASES. It shall be the duty of any physician, surgeon, obstetrician, midwife, nurse, maternity home or hospital of any nature, parent, relative and persons attendant on or assisting in any way whatsoever any infant, or the mother of any infant at childbirth, or any time within two (2) weeks after childbirth, knowing the condition hereinabove defined to exist, immediately to report such fact in writing, to the local health officer of the county, city, town, magisterial district or whatever other political division there may be within which the infant or the mother of any infant may reside. Midwives shall immediately report conditions to some qualified practitioner of medicine and thereupon withdraw from the case except as they may act under the physician’s instructions. On receipt of such report, the health officer, or the physician notified by a midwife, shall immediately give to the parents or persons having charge of such infant a warning of the dangers to the eye or eyes of said infant, and shall for indigent cases provide the necessary treatment at the expense of said county, city, or town.
History:
[(39-902) 1921, ch. 233, sec. 2, p. 522; I.C.A., sec. 38-702.]
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