Statutes > Idaho Statutes > TITLE 39 HEALTH AND SAFETY > CHAPTER 9 PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS AND OTHER PREVENTABLE DISEASES IN INFANTS > 39-903 GERMICIDE TO BE INSTILLED IN EYES OF NEWBORN BABY.

39-903 GERMICIDE TO BE INSTILLED IN EYES OF NEWBORN BABY.

TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 9

PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS AND OTHER PREVENTABLE DISEASES IN INFANTS

39-903. Germicide to be instilled in eyes of newborn baby. It shall be unlawful for any physician or midwife practicing midwifery to neglect, or otherwise fail to instill or have instilled immediately upon its birth, in the eyes of the newborn babe, some germicide of proved efficiency in preventing the development of ophthalmia neonatorum.