Connecticut § 7-61 - Birth and fetal death certificates to state whether blood test has been made.
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§ 7-61. Birth and fetal death certificates to state whether blood test has been made.
Sec. 7-61. Birth and fetal death certificates to state whether blood test has been made. In reporting each birth and fetal death, physicians and others permitted to attend pregnancy cases and required to report births and fetal deaths shall state on the birth certificate or fetal death certificate, as the case may be, whether a blood test for syphilis has been made during such pregnancy upon a specimen of blood taken from the woman who bore the child for which a birth or fetal death certificate is filed and, if made, the date when such test was made, and, if not made, the reason why such test was not made. In no event shall the birth certificate state the result of the test.
(1949 Rev., S. 3837; 1953, S. 2049d.)
Source: official Connecticut text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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