The Florida Senate

383.05  Department of Health to prepare prophylactic for free distribution.--The Department of Health shall cause to be prepared and put into proper containers a 1-percent fresh solution of nitrate of silver or some equally effective prophylactic approved by the department, to be distributed free, with instructions for use, to local health officers, to enable each health officer to distribute a sufficient quantity to each physician and midwife within the health officer's territorial jurisdiction; and it is hereby made the duty of local health officers to make such distribution to indigents. In areas where no health officer is employed, the department shall furnish such prophylactic preparations and instructions free to each physician, midwife, or other person in attendance at the birth of a child. Any solution or prophylactic furnished by the department shall bear the date of manufacture.

History.--s. 2, ch. 20690, 1941; ss. 19, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 110, ch. 71-355; s. 124, ch. 77-147; s. 671, ch. 95-148; s. 58, ch. 97-101.