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FORBIDS INVALIDS TO WED.BIU to bt; 1‘resented in Wiswiuslu Beglslu tin-** .Sui:h» Muvriu^e iU ftnni.LA CliOSSiS, Wis., Doc. 5.—The marriage law which W. L. Woodward. will have presented at the next legislatureis .attracting, .considerable attentionthroughout the .state, air. Woodwardexplains, his position on the law as ol-loWri: . . , . ;‘ I have been of the opinion for some months past that some tiling should bo tlooe to prevent marriages between physical degenerates and persons having so tin: hereditary diseases.•‘Tlie bill I have drawn up contains modifications already suggested bv Mr, Parker in his letter to me to his law ill oree in Ohio,Thu provides, among otherthings, that «, hoard of medical examiners be organized and maintained by the •stuli!. No license to nmrry shall be granted to persons contemplating marriage unless they shall have received from the board a eerli.'icate setting forth that they are free from the fof-1 owing ailments. any of which shall be suiTieient cause for refusing a leee-iso: True insanity, inherited insanity, insanity resulting from vice; primary, sae-011 tinry and tertiary affections of congenital organs: hereditary tuberculosisor consumption.”
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Racine Daily Journal
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Dec 05, 1900
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