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5’if*no\vn are stanrord University oo-i nsityB-depr-ngrewbyednkExpect ‘Blood Test’ Law, Effective On August 16, To Slow Marriage Licenses;Applicants will probably be less numerous after the blood test law goes into effect August 16. concerning the issuance of marriage licenses, in the opinion of Mrs.Louise Clark Stunich, chief deputy k® in probate court, in charge of thelicense bureau.Compliance with this. enactment will slow up marriages at first, it is expected, but eventually the new routine will become more reg-lg ular. Application for the permit to*ytie marital bonds was always one of the first steps—but not any more.Before even going to probate court the prospective bride and bridegroom will go to a doctor who will take a sample of the! blood of each. The doctor sends this to the state laboratory* at Columbus or to some approved laboratory in this section of the Btate. Two reports, one confidential and the other a public record, will be returned by the lab. The couple will get a copy of the public rec-)d|ord and probate court will receive in the confidential report.If the blood teets show negative on syphilis or syphilis in a non-is communicable stage, official approval Is given for issuance of the j license. The couple will then visit ; the license bureau and be prepared to answer the question: Did jyou have your blood test takenDand where is your copy of the re Port?Once that is done, the applies tlon for the license is made. This new enactment will probably In grease the cost of marriage. If the couple cannot pay for the examination of the blood at any ap proved lab. the state will perform this service at the institution atlaColumbus, free of charge. But there will still be the doctor to pay for his services. He must draw the blood, send the packages away, make reports to the persons and to probate court.Marital-minded couples cannot avoid the tests. All surrounding states had the blood test law before Ohio and the Buckeye state becomes the twenty-sixth in the Union to have such a measure. If marriage is to he announced through the publication of banns, blood tests must he mtde and be satisfactory, as a probate record will reveal, before the hanns can be announced.Laws in adjoining states are still much tougher than Ohio legislation, it is pointed out, and the new blood test law is really a composition of all the best features in the various laws of other states. In some states, however, any laboratory or physician can pass np-on the blood as to what it contains. In Ohio it can only he done by an approved lsh. stopping any chance of having an inaccurate test made.According to Mrs. Stnnlch. the operation of the new law in no way concerns Itself with the regulation which requires a couple to wait five days for a license, except by the action of a waiver. Fhat adjunct of the measure Ls still in force. It is thought a ten-day wait will probably be necessary since about five days are re-ZWakerfo ULL^Thirst-Quenchers/'quired for the blood test and report and the additional five-day j, delay will be ordered by law after application for a license.Doctors point out the drawing of blood is practically painless and altar-bound boys and girls will be united under much more favorable conditions. The blood teat stands « for only thirty days, demanding * another teat if a hesitant couple r out watts the thiry-day period.NO!FOITHRS tcBo
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Thu, Jul 17, 1941
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