SVENEREAL DISEASE.
WELLINGTON, September 22
Undeterred by the difficulties associated with a public campaign against venereal diseases, the Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister of Public Health, has made several practical moves^ the most significant of which is tho refusal to permit of the landing from a direct mail steamer of a man known to be suffering from a; bad form of venereal trouble., He was segregated while the steamer was in New Zealand' waters, eventually returning to England, havin°- failed to land hero on account of being officially classed as an undesirable immigrant. The Minister has decided to make a notifiable / disease optbahriia- neotorum, an eye affection afflicting children at birth, ono result of sexual disease. Circulars will be sent to hospital boards 'shortly detailing proposals dealing with the "disease, the plan being based on tho English Local Government "Board's system.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3562, 23 September 1916, Page 5
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141SVENEREAL DISEASE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3562, 23 September 1916, Page 5
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