Each physician attending a pregnant woman in this state shall take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of each such woman within fourteen days of the first examination, and shall submit such sample for standard serological tests for syphilis to the university hygienic laboratory of the state university at Iowa City or some other laboratory approved by the Iowa department of public health. Every other person attending a pregnant woman in this state, but not permitted by law to take blood tests, shall cause a sample of blood of each such woman to be taken by a duly licensed physician, who shall submit such sample for standard serological tests for syphilis to the state hygienic laboratory of the state university at Iowa City or such other laboratories co-operating with and approved by the Iowa department of public health. If the blood of the pregnant woman reacts positively to such test, then, if she is married, the husband and other children by the same mother shall be subjected to the same blood tests as herein provided. If the pregnant woman is single, then the person responsible for the pregnancy and other children by the same mother shall be subjected to the same blood tests as herein provided.
[C39, § 2281.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 140.3; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 140.11]
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