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birth a solution of nitrate of silver which shall be furnished to her in suf-
ficient quantities at her request by the State Department of Health, and, if,
within two weeks after the birth of that child, such child develops a sore
eye or sore eyes, or, if, within two weeks after the birth of such child, its
eye-lids become reddened or inflamed or discharge pus, any midwife in
attendance at the birth of such child shall immediately notify the health
officer or 1 the county or district in which the child was born, or a qualified
practitioner of medicine, of such condition of such child.
See art. 27, sec. 277.

1924, ch. 294, sec. 77.

90. Every midwife who attends a mother at the birth of a live-born
child shall make out and file a certificate of birth as provided in Section 23
of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Public General Laws. Whenever a
midwife shall attend any mother who gives birth to a still-born child he or
she shall immediately notify the coroner having jurisdiction over the dis-
trict in which such still-born child is born, and shall immediately file a
certificate of birth for such still-born child with the registrar of vital statis-
tics for the district in which such child was born.

1924, ch. 294, sec. 78.

91. The State Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to
adopt rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law,-governing the licen-
sure of midwives and the practice of midwifery in this State.

The State Board of Health shall keep an accurate and complete register
of midwives, and shall enforce all the provisions of this sub-title.

1924, ch. 294, sec. 79.

92. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this sub-title,
or of the rules or regulations adopted hereunder by the State Board of
Health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined
not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and any mid
wife who shall be twice convicted of a violation of the provisions of the

sub-title, or the rules or regulations adopted hereunder, shall in additiction
to the other penalties herein provided, forfeit her license to practice mid-
wifery and shall not be permitted thereafter to practice in this State. Pro
vided that no person to whom a rule or regulation of said Board has not
been mailed, prior to the violation of such rule or regulation, shall be pros
cuted for such violation thereof.

1924, ch. 294, sec. 80.

93. Any midwife who shall be convicted of producing an abortion
inducing premature labor, shall, in addition to the other penalties provide,
by law, forfeit her license to practice midwifery and shall not thereafter
be permitted to practice midwifery in this State.2

1 Evidently a typographical error in the act.

2 Sec. 3 of ch. 294 of act of 1924 repeals all laws inconsistent with said ch. 294 to the:
extent of such inconsistency.