The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-12-31
HEALTH
BILL BEFORE
MARRIAGE
MAHR WILL ASK LEGISLA.
TURE TO PASS LAW OF
THAT KIND
Special to the Daily Leader

oFtClal 20 lAe lltllE L-edutF.
Oklahoma City, Okla. Dec. 30. ~
Al the coming session of the legs
llature an effort will be made 10 en-,
act a LAW requiring the presentation
of a health certificate by both rartcs
contemplating marriage before the is
snance of the regulation license is
forecasted by the activities of the
state public health department the
State Federation Of Womens Gibbs
ana other organizations incldins
many of the medical societies of Ok
lahema.
In the biennial report OF the state
health department state Commission
er Mahr gives some Interesting in
formation on this subject He de-
elares that the records of inspection
recently made by his department Of
all state Institutions win show that
had medical certificates been requir-
ed so years ago, many of the nmtaes
of the pen.tentiaries. reformatories.
asylums and poor farms would not
now be charges Of the state and
sec Of eSle..se 10 90 irb..s.
Commissioner Mar say IN part.
Society iecoonizes oniy such TN.
io.s as are legalized b. license and
, regularly performed ceremony. Y,t|
under this cloak there are daily oar-
form crimes every bit as heinous, and
far more blighting, than tha; to9
which an Oklahoma man recently
arose in his might as a father and
took the lie OF his daughters Sc
ducer.
Statistics throughout the United
States show that from 50 TO so per
cent Of allabdominql operations per
formed for the purpose OF relieving
ing pelvic diseases in married WON
en- are the result OF contagious dis |
ease from which the husband was
At the time of marriage
Statistics from our state home for
feeble minded located al Enid, show
that 75 per cent Of the inmates Of |
this Institution are part OF the crop
Of wild oats" sown by their fathers
when single men Forty per cent
Of the children in the state school for |
the blind are denied the right 10 see
the beauties OF this world, because |
their fathers sowed wild oats They |
must suffer and pay the penalty for
their fathers few years Of reckless
life. There are al least 200 inmates |
b the state hospitals for insane
whose brains are as blank as a stone
VAL They are doomed 10 live in q
nadhcuse Tor the rest OF their na-
ural lives as the result Of alcohol
rice and immortality on the part Of
heir fathers and the neglect OF their
maternal grandfathers. In the state
ieef and dumb school located at Sui
,hur 40 per cent Oh the inmates can
aFely attribute their present physi
al defects TO parental Indifference.
Commissioner Mahr declares that
uch conditions viii always exist I'M
il they are remedied by law and be
ONE a well understood subject that
S fearlessly handled by the pulpit
nd the press He declares that
there are many doctors who, for fear
{ losing business, viii not advise
atron tha1 should his daughter mar
3 the young man OF her choice, ne
ill be permitting her TO dedicate
erseH TO a life OF mental and physi-
al suffering, with the prospect eff
er becoming a lifelong invalid
Comm issioner Mahr further says:
The writer regrets that he is not
gifted to draw pen pic
re SO vivid that he might impress
)on his readers the dangers of pa
rnal Indifference in permitting the
lughters who have been treasured
Id guarded. innocent Of all world
sss, without knowledge Of the us
-ses which are a result Of immoral
Y and vice. or Of the dangers that :
, in wait for them, 10 become a sac
lice when they give themselves at i
e altar to the men whom they hope
make happy