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2020 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
Chapter 37 - Care Of The Newly Born
Section 44-37-20. Instillation of prophylactic to prevent blindness within one hour after birth.
Universal Citation: SC Code § 44-37-20 (2020)
Every doctor, midwife, nurse or other person attending the delivery at birth of a child in this State shall instill, or have instilled, into the eyes of the baby, within one hour after birth, some effective prophylactic approved by the Department of Health and Environmental Control, for prevention of blindness from ophthalmia neonatorum. A record of such administration or instillation shall be reported on the birth certificate, showing the time with respect to the birth and the kind of prophylactic administered.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-555; 1952 Code Section 32-555; 1942 Code Section 5043-1; 1939 (41) 159; 1954 (48) 1763.
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