4. A tray or basket equipped with necessary articles to be used in
dressing and caring for infants; to contain sterile gauze, absorbent
cotton, medium and small safety pins, cotton applicators, bottle of
alcohol, a bar of pure mild soap, a proper lubricant (albolene or
olive oil), boric acid solution, pure powder, abdominal binder for
infant.
5. If hot water bags are ordered by physician they must be covered
with a flannel bag before being placed in the crib, and must not come
in direct contact with the baby's body.
6. All nursing bottles and nipples must be boiled at least once a day,
and individual nipples must be provided for each child.
For mother.
1. Clean piece of rubber sheeting for each patient's bed.
2. Individual bed pans marked with name of patient.
3. Metal douche cans instead of rubber irrigating bags.
4. Glass rips and nozzles--to be boiled before and after using and
kept in lysol solution.
5. Clinical thermometers; to be washed in alcohol before and after
using.
Care of patients.
1. This board urges the attendance of a legally qualified physician at
all confinements. The law permits midwifes to assist women only in
cases of normal child birth. (See Statutes 1917, Sec. 8, page 96.) In
any but a normal case the midwife must immediately call a legally
qualified physician.
2. The eyes of all new born infants shall be treated immediately after
birth with a one per cent solution of nitrate of silver, two drops in
each eye, or with other approved solution and during the first few
days cleansed daily with saturated boric acid solution. Ampoules of
nitrate of silver solution may be obtained free of charge by
charitable institutions upon application to State Board of Health, 713
Wells Fargo Building, San Francisco, or 821 Pacific Finance Building,
Los Angeles.
3. Attention is called to Chapter 724, Statutes 1915, which requires
the reporting of reddened or inflamed eyes of an infant, within two
weeks after birth, to the local health officer of the county or
municipality within which the mother of such infant resides.
4. If the child is kept in the home and is not breast fed by the
mother, the feeding and selection of food, shall be under the
direction of a registered physician. If a wet-nurse is provided, she
shall meet the approval of the physician. Whenever advisable the
mother shall be urged to nurse her child.
5. Any patients afflicted with a venereal or other communicable
disease shall be properly isolated in a separate room and all
necessary precautions taken to prevent the spread of such disease to
other persons.
Disposal of child.
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