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i Negro Midwife Fined $25 For NegligenceLena Collins, a colored midwife . of 311 Sunflower Alley, wws today j convicted of fiiilinii l« pin pruphy-i lactic drops in llu1 eyes of a new-j bnrn bnby thr.l rhe delivered on j July 25.iI According U Dr. J. P. Ward, j Director Df the local health depari-! men1., Lena is one of the most | trusted midwives in Ihc county j and her neglect in such an im-j porta lit matter came as a shook to nl I who Itntnv her. - Dr. Ward said that the state law requires every physician or midwife who delivers a baby to immediately instill prophylactic drops in I ho baby's eyes to prevent gonorrheal ophihalmia. According to the health officer, this disease was once the most common cause of blindness' in infants, but that since the law requiring the use of these drops was passed, the disease has become a rarity.
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Greenville Delta Democrat Times
Greenville, Mississippi, US
Mon, Aug 02, 1943
Page 8
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