253.11 Infant blindness.
(1) For the prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum or infant blindness the attending physician or midwife shall use a prophylactic agent approved by the department.
(2) In a confinement not attended by a physician or nurse-midwife, if one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed, swollen and red or show an unnatural discharge at any time within 2 weeks after birth, the nurse, parents, or other person in charge shall report the facts in writing within 6 hours to the local health officer who shall immediately warn the person of the danger. The local health officer shall employ at the expense of the local health department a competent physician to examine and treat the case.
(3) Any person who violates this section may be required to forfeit not more than $1,000.
History: 1979 c. 221; 1987 a. 332; 1993 a. 27 s. 314; Stats. 1993 s. 253.11.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 253 - Maternal and child health.
253.02 - Department; powers and duties.
253.06 - State supplemental food program for women, infants and children.
253.065 - Dietetic internship program.
253.07 - Women's health block grant.
253.075 - Family planning and related preventive health services grant.
253.08 - Pregnancy counseling services.
253.085 - Outreach to low-income pregnant women.
253.09 - Abortion refused; no liability; no discrimination.
253.095 - Requirements to perform abortions.
253.10 - Voluntary and informed consent for abortions.
253.105 - Prescription and use of abortion-inducing drugs.
253.107 - Probable postfertilization age; later-term abortions.
253.115 - Newborn hearing screening.
253.12 - Birth defect prevention and surveillance system.
253.13 - Tests for congenital disorders.
253.14 - Sudden infant death syndrome.
253.15 - Shaken baby syndrome and impacted babies.