A practitioner of medicine and surgery or osteopathy attending a pregnant woman shall take samples of blood of such woman, if possible prior to the third month of gestation, and submit same to a laboratory approved by the Board for a standard serological test for syphilis. Every other person permitted by law to take blood tests shall similarly cause a sample of blood of a pregnant woman attended by him or her to be taken by a duly licensed practitioner of medicine and surgery or osteopathy and submit it to a laboratory approved by the Board for a standard serological test for syphilis. (Amended 1959, No. 19, eff. March 5, 1959; 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961.)