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§§ 1263-1306-a2. PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS. Tit. VI, Ch. 4-A.
40 ner as for other departments of the state. At the meeting held in July,
41 a president shall be elected from the board of health for one year, and
42 the board of appointment shall in July, nineteen hundred thirteen,
43 name and appoint a secretary, as herein provided, not a member of
44 the board of health, who shall serve for a term of five years or until
45 his successor is appointed, unless sooner removed by the board of
46 appointment for good cause; said secretary shall have charge of the
47 office of the state board of health.
48 When the board of health is not in session, the secretary shall be
49 the executive officer thereof, and commissioner of public health, and
50 shall have full power and authority to execute and enforce all of the
51 laws, rules and regulations of the board of health, pertaining to the
52 health and life of the citizens of the state, to quarantine, to marriages,
53 births and deaths, to sanitary investigations, and to all other matters
54 subject to regulations and control by the board of health, the board of
55 medical examiners, and all of the various other departments that are
56 now or may hereafter be provided by law, or by the rules and regula-
57 tions of such boards or commissions as are authorized to make and
58 adopt rules with reference thereto.
[C, '97, § 2564; S., '13, § 2564; 39 G. A., ch. 209, § 41.]
SEC. 1263. Expenses of members.
1 Each member of the board shall receive only actual traveling
2 expenses incurred in the performance of his duties, said expenses to
3 be itemized, verified, certified, audited, and a warrant drawn therefor.
[C, '97, § 2574; S., '13, § 2574; 39 G. A., ch. 209, § 43.]
CHAPTER 4-A.
PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS.
SECTION 1306-al. Prophylactic treatment of eyes of newborn.
1 Any physician or any person authorized by law to act as an
2 obstetrician shall immediately upon the birth of an infant instill into
3 the eyes of such newly born infant a prophylactic solution approved
4 by the state board of health. Nothing in this chapter shall be con-
5 strued to require medical treatment for the minor child of any person
6 who is a member of a well recognized church or religious denomina-
7 tion and whose religious convictions in accordance with the tenets or
8 principles of his church or religious denomination are against medical
9 treatment for disease.
[39 G. A., ch. 40, § 1.]
SEC. 1306-a2. Detection of infection—duty to treat or report.
1 Any physician or any person authorized by law to act as an
2 obstetrician in this state or any other person having the care of an
3 infant, within six months after its birth who shall detect any inflam-
4 mation, swelling or redness in the eyes of any such infant or any
5 unnatural discharge therefrom, shall, if he be a physician, treat such
6 child with the necessary prophylactic or, if he be other than a phy-