1816 ARTICLE 43

An. Code, 1924, sec. 86. 1924, ch. 294, sec. 73.

86. Any person not licensed to practice midwifery on or before July 1,
1924, who shall desire to obtain a license, shall make written application to
the Chief of the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the State Board of Health,
and shall furnish a certificate of moral character and a certificate of the
applicant's qualifications for licensure, provided that nothing in this sub-
title shall be construed to prevent any person who is entitled to licensure
under Chapter 94 of the Acts of 1912 from obtaining a license under the
provisions of this sub-title, without examination, provided that any such
person not licensed prior to July 1, 1924 shall make application for such
license before January 1, 1925.

A candidate for licensure to practice midwifery shall be licensed if,
after examination by two physicians named by the State Board of Health
and practicing in the respective City or County in which the applicant is
a resident, he or she is deemed properly qualified. All licensed midwives
shall register with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County in which
they respectively reside or with the Commissioner of Health, if they reside
in the City of Baltimore.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 87. 1924, ch. 294, sec. 74.

87. Any midwife of good moral character, who had a certificate or
license to practice midwifery issued in any other State, or the District of
Columbia or a foreign country, where the requirements for licensure, in
the opinion of the State Board of Health, are equal to the requirements for
licensure in this State, shall be entitled to a license to practice midwifery
in this State.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 88. 1924, ch. 294, sec. 75.

88. It shall be unlawful for any person licensed as a midwife to attend
any except normal cases of childbirth, to make vaginal examinations, or to
deliver retained placenta per vagina or attempt delivery by instruments or
version. In all cases in which the child is not delivered spontaneously
within a reasonable time, the midwife shall notify a qualified practitioner
of medicine immediately, and shall make no effort to deliver the child except
under the direction and supervision of such physician.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 89. 1924, ch. 294, sec. 76.

89. It shall be unlawful for any midwife in attendance at the birth of
any child to administer any drug to the said child or the mother thereof,
except upon the advice of a qualified practitioner of medicine; provided,
however, that nothing in this sub-title shall be construed to prohibit the
proper use of nitrate of silver in the child's eyes as hereinafter provided.
It shall be the duty of the midwife in attendance at the birth of any live-
born child to drop into the eyes of every such child within two hours after
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 or¹ 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. 322.

¹ Evidently a typographical error in the act.