Illinois Compiled Statutes 410 ILCS 215 — Infant Eye Disease Act.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Infant Eye Disease Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

That any diseased condition of the eye, or eyes of any infant in which there is any inflammation, swelling or redness in either one or both eyes of any such infant, either apart from or together with any unnatural discharge from the eye, or eyes of such infant, at any time within two weeks after the birth of such infan…

It shall be the duty of any physician, surgeon, obstetrician, midwife, nurse, maternity home or hospital, of any nature or parent assisting in any way whatsoever, any woman at childbirth, or assisting in any way whatsoever any infant, or the mother of any infant, at any time within two weeks after childbirth, observing…

It is the duty of all maternity homes and any and all hospitals or places where women resort for purposes of childbirth, to post and keep posted in conspicuous places in their institution, copies of this act, and to instruct persons professionally employed in such homes, hospitals and places regarding their duties unde…

The local health officer shall: (1) Investigate, in so far as that can be done without entering into the home or interfering with the child in any way without first securing the consent of the parents or guardian of such child, each case of ophthalmia neonatorum reported to him, and any other such case as may come to h…

The Department of Public Health shall: (1) enforce the provisions of this Act; (2) provide for the gratuitous distribution of a scientific prophylactic for ophthalmia neonatorum, together with proper directions for the use and administration thereof, to all physicians and midwives authorized by law to attend at the bir…

Any collusion between any official and any person, or between any others herein named, to misstate or conceal any facts which under this Act are essential to report correctly any case of ophthalmia neonatorum, shall likewise constitute a Class A misdemeanor, and any person upon conviction thereof, shall suffer a penalt…

It shall be the duty of the State's Attorney for the proper district to prosecute for all misdemeanors as herein prescribed

It shall be the duty of the State's Attorney for the proper district to prosecute for all misdemeanors as herein prescribed. (Source: Laws 1915, p. 366.)

Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor

Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 77-2716.)