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Any physician who practices medicine and surgery or any branch of those professions and who may have knowledge of any case of abortion, complete or incomplete, for therapeutic or any other purpose, on any patient treated or visited by him, shall report such case to the Department of Health within the five (5) days following the date on which it came to his knowledge.Any supervisor or person in charge of a private or public hospital, sanatorium, clinic or polyclinic, rest home, health home, convalescent home, or other like institution, who may have knowledge of any abortion, complete or incomplete, for actual or apparent therapeutic purposes or other purposes, of any person secluded in said institutions shall report the case to the Department of Health within the term of ten (10) days from the date it came to his knowledge.Said report shall be made on a blank form specially provided by the Department of Health and shall contain such information as the Department of Health may deem necessary. History —June 19, 1964, No. 65, p. 172, § 2.