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(d) Before passing a catheter.

The swabbing with antiseptic solution shall be repeated before
any further examination and before a douche is eiven. For this
purpose on noaccount shall the midwife use ordinary sponges or
flannel but only materials which have ‘beer boiled or othcrwise
disinfected before use.

15. Vhe midwife shall take care to make no more internal
examinations than are actually necessary.

16. The midwife in charge of a case of labour shall in all cases
exainine the placenta and membranes before they are destroyed and
catisly herseif that they are completely removed,

17. The midwife shall remove all soiled linen, blood, fwees,
urine, placenta and membranes from the neighbourhood of the patient
and from the lying-in room as soon as possible after the labour and in
every case before she leaves the patient’s house.

18. The midwife shall be responsible for the cleanliness, and
shall give all necessary directions for securing the comfort and
proper dieting, of the mother and child during: “the Iving-in period,
that is to say, ina normal ease the time occupied by the labour and
a period of 5 days thereatter. If alter ceasing to attend a case, the
midwife is again called in to an illness of the mother or the child
comeeted with the confinement, rules 25 and 26 shall apply.

19. A case of normal labour in these rules shall mean a labour
in which there are none of the conditions specified in rule 26.

(c) Duties To THE CHILD.

20. In the case of a child born apparently dead, the midwife
shall carry out appropriate methods of resuscitation

21. As soonas the child’s head is born and if possible before
the eyes are opened, its eyelids shall be carefully cleaned by the
midwife, and prophylactic application inserted.

22. On the birth of a child which is in danger of death, the.
midwife shall inform one of the parents ef the child's condition.

23. In all cases of ee that is to say where the child
after having been completely born has not breathed or shown any
signs of life, wheres a medical practitioner is not in attendance at the
time of birth the midwife in attendance at such still-birth shall
immediately notify the District Medical Officer of the District in
which she practises.