Note 614 — Chapter X · ABOLITION AND DISEASE
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A copy of the following slip is given to the patient:
Attention is called to the following sections of the Penal Code:
Sec. 155. Whoever, with knowledge or conjecture that he is suffering from a contagious sex disease, infects or exposes to infection another person, by means of sexual intercourse or immoral contact, shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than three years.
The same punishment is provided for those who connive at enabling any person who is known or suspected to be afflicted with a contagious sex disease, to infect in the above manner or expose to infection, another person.
If the person infected, or exposed to infection, be married to the guilty person, public prosecution shall take place only on application by the injured party.
Sec. 358. Imprisonment for six months or less is the punishment for anyone who, without calling attention to the danger of infection,
1. Causes a child to be nursed, knowing or suspecting the child to be afflicted with contagious syphilitic disease, or engages anyone to nurse such child, or
2. Knowing or suspecting that he (or she) is suffering from contagious syphilitic disease, enters the household of another as servant, or remains in such service, or receives a strange child to nurse it, or aids in bringing about such conditions.
The same punishment is provided for those who engage or, having engaged, retain, any person known or suspected to suffer from contagious syphilitic disease, as nurse for a child, or who aids in bringing about such engagement or retention in service.