Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22
No. 559, 81 Published July 81, 1919
CHI PTER cog "A WIS OF 1919

No. 559. 81 Published July 81, 1913.
CHAPTER 693, LAWS OF 1913.
AN ACT-To create section 561jm of the
statutes, relating to the prevention of
criminality. insanity, feeble mindedness
and epilepsy.
The people Of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section /. There is added to the
statutes a new section to read: Section
56ljm. The state board Of control is
hereby authorized to appoint from time
to time, one surgeon and one alieniSt of
recognized ability whose duty it shall be
in conjunction with the superintendent of
the state and county institutions who
have charge of criminal insane, feeble
minded and epileptic persons, to examine
into the mental and physical condition of
such persons legally confined in such in
stitutions.
2. Said board of control shall at such
times as it deems advisable submit to such
experts and to the superintendent of any
of said institutions the names OF such
inmates of said institution whose mental
and physical condition they desire exam
ined and said experts and the superin-
tendent Of said institution shall meet,
take evidence and examine into the men
tai and physical condition of such inmates
and report said mental and physical con-
ditiOn to the state board of control.
3. IF such experts and superintendent
unanimously find that procreaion is in
advisable it shall be lawful to perform
such operation for the prevention of pro-
creation as shall be decided safest and
most effective; provided, however. that
the operation shall not be performed ex-
cept in such cases as are authorized by
the said board of control.
4. Before such operation shall be per-
formed. it shall be the duty of the state
board of control to give at least thirty
days notice in writing to the husband or
wife, parent or guardian, if the same
shall be known, and if unknown, to the
person with whom such inmate last re-
sided.
5. The said experts shall receive as
compensation a sum to be fixed by the
state board Of control which shall not ex-
coed ten dollars per day and expenses,
and such experts shall only be paid for
the actual number of days consumed in
the performance of their duties.
6. The record taken upon the examina-
ton of every such inmate shall be pre-
served and shall be filed in the office of
said board of control at Madison, Wiscon-
sin, and semi annually after the perform
ing of the operation, the superintendent
Of the institution wherein such inmate is
legally confined, shall report to said board
of control the condition of such inmate
and the effect of such operation upon
such inmate.
Z. The state board of control shall re-
port biennially in it's regular biennial re-
port the number of operations performed
under the authority Of this section and
the result of such operations.
8. There is hereby appropriated out of
the state treasury, not otherwise appro-
priated, a sufficient amount of money to
carry into effect the purposes of this
section not to exceed two thousand dol
lars.
Section q This act shall take effect
upon passage and publication
Approved July 80, 1913. Copy Law.