858 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 294

provided that any such person not licensed prior to the time
when this Act shall take effect 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.

SEC. 74. 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.

SEC. 75. 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 practi-
tioner of medicine immediately, and shall make no effort to de-
liver the child except under the direction and supervision of
such physician.

SEC. 76. 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 quali-
fied practitioner of medicine; provided, however, that nothing
in this Act 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 sufficient 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 immedi-
ately notify the health officer or the county or district in which