This chapter, together with funds made available through that section or those sections of the federal Social Security Act which relates to crippled children shall be administered by the State Board of Education through the division of rehabilitation and crippled children service and shall be used in the further development of the state's program of physical restoration of crippled children or children having any congenital or acquired malformations or disabilities. The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to accept donations, gifts and bequests and to expend the same on approval of the State Superintendent of Education, the executive officer of the board, for purposes approved under regulations of the State Board of Education. In order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the State Board of Education is further authorized, through the Division of Rehabilitation and Crippled Children Service, to enter into agreements with public and private clinics and agencies.

Any and all funds appropriated for physical restoration of crippled children may be used for the purpose of enabling the State Board of Education to comply with the federal Social Security Act and to continue to extend and improve the services for locating crippled children or children having any congenital or acquired malformations or disabilities and for providing medical, surgical, plastic, orthopedic or other corrective services, care and treatment, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization and aftercare for children suffering from disabilities from congenital or acquired malformations or from conditions which lead to disabilities, including eye defects, epilepsy, hearing defects, speech defects or other congenital or acquired malformations that may be corrected.

All state and federal funds made available for carrying out the provisions of this chapter shall be paid by the treasurer on warrants drawn therefor by the comptroller, on requisition of the Superintendent of Education.

The county health officer shall make a list of all children in the county who have any congenital or acquired malformations. In order to make this list, he shall avail himself of any information on birth certificates concerning congenital or acquired malformation, any information relative to crippled children in the biennial school census, any information he can procure from practicing physicians, the Department of Pensions and Security, the Department of Education or any other source.

When the county health officer receives information that a child has a congenital or acquired malformation or disability, he shall immediately require a physical examination of such child, encouraging arrangements for such examination by a practicing pediatrician, orthopedist or physician of the choice of the parents if the parents are financially able to bear the expense of such examination. If the parents are not able to pay for such examination, the county health officer shall make the examination, or arrange to have it made at a 'well-baby clinic' or some other qualified clinic.

If the examination required by Section 21-3-5 is made at a clinic or by a physician, pediatrician or orthopedist, the physician making the examination shall report the findings of the examination on forms prescribed and furnished by the State Board of Health through the county health department. Such forms shall be filled out in triplicate. One copy shall be retained by the physician, one shall be furnished the county health department and one shall be furnished the State Board of Health. If the examination is made by the county health officer, the report shall be prepared in duplicate and one copy retained in the county health department and the other sent to the State Board of Health.

Any person examining a child as required by Section 21-3-5 is charged with the duty of giving to the parents any information available relative to remedial treatment or any operations needed, and, whenever it is possible to do so, should inform the parents as to the time such treatments or operation will be most beneficial, when further examinations should be made and should instruct the parents as to any special care or treatment the child should have.

(a) The State Board of Health shall prescribe and furnish to the county departments the necessary forms for reporting congenital and acquired malformations and disabilities of children, which shall provide space for reporting the nature of all congenital or acquired malformations, including infections or diseases or injuries which produce blindness or other malformations or disabilities and space for reporting blindness, cataracts, congenital glaucoma, strabismus, corneal ulcers, sympathetic ophthalmia, ophthalmia neonatorum and other infections, deafness, harelip, cleft palate, clubfoot, flat feet, heart defects, congenital dislocation of the hip, curved bones, wry neck, fracture, rickets, bone and joint conditions from rheumatic fever, bone and joint conditions from meningitis, persistent thymus, scoliosis or other spinal conditions, supernumerary fingers and toes, webbed fingers and toes and the like, tuberculosis of bones and joints, arthritis, osteochondritis, osteomyelitis, bone tumors, spinal bifida, other congenital bone and cartilage defects, other pressure deformities, intestinal obstructions, congenital or acquired hernia, undescended testicles, hemangioma, hypospadia, sabaceous cyst, esophageal strictures or defects, spastic paraplegia, obstetrical paralysis or other birth injuries, infantile paralysis, muscular atrophy, muscular dystrophy, epiphyseolysis, burns, epilepsy and all other congenital or acquired defects or disabilities.

(b) The State Board of Health shall keep a permanent file for the reports on congenital and acquired malformations and disabilities of children and shall upon request furnish copies thereof to clinics, institutions, services, organizations and practicing physicians who are interested in the treatment of any child having a congenital or acquired malformation or disability.