BLOOD TESTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 21, 26 January 1939, Page 30

BLOOD TESTS.

MARGIN OF ERROR. ONLY ONE IN 150,000. WOMAN'S APPEAL FAILS. (By Air Mail.) LONDON", January 1. A 26-vear-old mother made legal history when she appealed to Middlesex Quarter Sessions against the dismissal of an application for a paternity order following evidence of a blood test. The girl was Miss Marie Louise Morrison, of Xelaon Road, Hornsey, X.. who alleged that Sidney Baron, of Dunsmore Road, Stamford Hill. N, was the father of her eight-month-old eon. t When she summoned him at Highgate last June, the ense was dismissed after the Bench had heard evidence of blood tests taken by Dr. J. C. Thomas, a Wimpole Street consulting pathologist. Still in his early thirties, Dr. Thomas was the chief witness at the appeal. He said he made four Mood tests. "Xo biological test can be infallible," lie [minted out, "but in this case I am convinced that Baron is not the father of Miss Morrison's child. "The tests showed that Miss Morrison's blood belonged to group 'M,' and Baron's to group 'X,' while the baby possessed only group 'M'." stated the doctor. "If Baron were the father he would l»e bound to pass on substance 'X' to the child." Tn cross-examination by Mr. Frank Milton, defending. Dr. Thomas said the chance of an error in such a blood test was J ">O.OOO to 1.