RT Journal
T1 BUcharest
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD August 17
VO 93
IS 7
SP 558
OP 559
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710070056018
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710070056018
AB Social Reforms 
    The Roumanian government is dealing with the execution of extensive social reforms. A bill is in preparation which subjects marriage to revolutionary innovations with a view to checking the spread of venereal diseases by punishing the propagators of such diseases with imprisonment. This bill advocates compulsory medical examination before marriage. If the parties fail to produce official certification of their fitness to marry, the registrar must refuse their registration. This social reform is badly needed by this country. Here, where a great mass of the population is still uneducated, where infant mortality is alarming owing to an inherited tendency to disease in children of unhealthy parents, and where preventive measures are in a primitive stage owing to the deficient culture of the masses, the contemplated law on social sanitation fosters a perspective of national protection.Improvement in living conditions is perhaps of still more importance. Neglected venereal diseases