te for patients.

9. Wooden blocks 4 and 6 inches high shall be provided for use in case
of hemorrhage, where surgical bed is not in use.

10. At the time of delivery plenty of hot and cold sterile water
(boiled for 20 minutes).

11. Facilities for sterilizing instruments shall be provided.

12. The following supplies are recommended to be kept on hand: Fl.
extract of ergot, lysol, bichloride tablets (blue), sterile cord tape
and blunt scissors, nitrate of silver (1%), or argyrol, two pieces of
linen tape.

For Infant.

1. Separate cribs or baskets for babies--clean mattresses covered with
rubber sheeting and clean flannel blankets are to be used.

2. Correct scales for weighing infants.

3. Nitrate of silver one per cent solution.

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 appl