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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.

1. Attention is called to section 224 of the Civil Code in accordance
with which a child not retained by the mother must be legally
relinquished before it can be adopted. This relinquishment must be
expressed in writing, signed and acknowledged before an officer
authorized to take acknowledgments, or before the secretary of one of
the organizations mentioned below. Before adoption can take place a
copy of the relinquishment must be filed with the State Board of
Charities and Corrections.

2. Attention is called to Chapter 569, Statutes 1911, providing for
the supervision and control of the State Board of Charities and
Corrections of the placing of dependent children into homes, which
makes it a misdemeanor for any person, association or society to
engage in the work of placing children into homes without a license
from the State Board of Charities and Corrections. The following
agencies have been licensed to place dependent children into homes and
to arrange for adoption:

Berkeley Welfare Society, 2120 Grove street, Berkeley.

Children's Home Society, 919 E. Twenty-fifth street, Los Angeles.

Children's Home Society (Branch), 3491 Sixty-sixth street, Oakland.

Catholic Ladies' Aid Society, City Hall, Oakland.

Oakland Associated Charities, City Hall, Oakland.

Little Children's Aid, 995 Market street, San Francisco.

Children's Agency of the Associated Charities, 1500 Jackson street,
San Francisco.

Eureka Benevolent Society, 436 O'Farrell street, San Francisco.

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