EUGENIC MARRIAGES.
. DEADLOCK Iff. WISCONSIN. fho drastic "Eiiijiiic 'Marriage taw" lofently enacted' by th<T &pWture of the State of Wisconsin requiring all applicants for afnaJriafie liefiiise to produeo & doctor's eertififi'itte 'shoAviiis; they are free from diseo.so-i was the subject pf a tost ease at Milwaukee recently. The ljuv prescribes that {lectors jfttist, for a fee of 125., subject all applicants for health ■certificate's ■■to eertaai tests. Against this provision ihs majority of\ doctors in the State have .gone oil strike, ■ This- result has been an unprecedented "slump" in niarnajre tameis., as recisttare ate fefiising jo licenses to eotiples who h'avo not the necessary health certificate's. J The • piaintiff in the, ease, which lifts i net yet bocii decided, cahjplains that Ji» wants to jset married tat eftiiiiot find a doctor wiHiBC to ikiipthe. ntedj* cal certificartp far t3ie'.legal'fee of 12s. nanwij* the witnessos was Dr. Horace Manchester Brown, 'iho..leftdir -of tlin etfikiflK dnetflrs,. ihat tius y'ordini* of.tlte liwv .made it impossible fpr.oJiy pr-aetitfenor to issiiß ,a i?uß;civic license lvitliont eith.nr losing nion.eY or Jieriwriftft Jxilivself. To, tins'.Sr. P. JSaymuil, tuKvtprioltjgief' at" t|,ie St.it.o TJii iversity, artclod there were not 5.5 doctors in the wWle State' flnniift'd torsive 'the jWassefman test... .OoMnsp.l fe'f .tlie State adnutM to thoCMtrt that : tlw> CnuM not;l)5 for : the'fee iJr.pscribßd.!>}'.itJio ivesy'law.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2016, 25 March 1914, Page 10
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215EUGENIC MARRIAGES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2016, 25 March 1914, Page 10
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