Show HEALTH EXAMINATION BEFORE MARRIAGE For F r many years jears ears Indeed ver ever sincO medical science discovered definite means of ot diagnosing tory tary t ry defects detects have urged urgel physical examination before mar marS rl nags rials ge as a means of preventing the tho development of ot mentally defective e people and of ot protecting the health healthful ful person against the tho infected one Several states slates now have havo laws re re- requiring quiring various kinds ot of physical examinations before marriage vary vary- ing from an attempt to determine the pretence presence of ot tuberculosis men men- mental menta mental tal ta and other diseases to complete examinations In many places place a amere amere amere mere declaration under unde-r oath that tha the person concerned Is not infected Is accepted as sufficient Thousands of ot records are arc avail all available available able in the case use histories kept by physicians ot or young wives who have contracted diseases from tram the their husbands in man many instances the tho disease being such as III necessitated necessitate surgical operation after marriage It has been urged that such liuch ex ex- ex- ex examinations are not desirable be be- because because cause they would interfere WIth will marriage that they the offend modesty and that they might destroy senti meet meat Blood tests are necessary and more snore complete examinations are called for when the blood tests indicate their importance In some countries special clinics have havo been developed de for making physical examinations before mar mar- marriage riago and for providing suitable Tho The argument of ot scott senti- sentiment ment should not be permitted to sway anyone an one as to the importance of ot such an nn examination in view o of the Ibe terrible results of communicable disease present In either cither of ot the per per- eons sous to be bo married The time lime would seem to have como come when hen the public should be educated regarding the right of the tho prospective husband or wife to be assured that the tho opposite partner does not have havo tuberculosis epilepsy I sy SI St St. Vitus dance or other disease I |