Attending physician to take blood sample from pregnant woman--Submission to office of laboratory services for testing.

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5. Attending physician to take blood sample from pregnant woman--Submission to office of laboratory services for testing.

34-23-9. Attending physician to take blood sample from pregnant woman--Submission to State Public Health Laboratory for testing.

Each physician attending a pregnant woman in this state during gestation shall, in the case of each woman so attended, take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such woman at the time of the first examination, and submit such sample for standard serological tests for syphilis to the State Public Health Laboratory or such other laboratories cooperating with, and approved by, the Department of Health.

Source: SL 1939, ch 103; SDC Supp 1960, §27.2406 (1).

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