THE SOCIAL EVIL
W.O.T.'D. '■ CONVENTION'S DECISION
By Telegraph—Press AssociationWanganui, March 23. The W C.T.U. Convention considered the social evil and the diseases resulting therefrom,. and resolved• J.no union ' is strongly against compulsory notification and compulsory detention of persons suffering from the disease, because, firstly, at tho .Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases appointed by tho British House of Commons all the expert medical evidence was against compulsory detention; secondly, because wherever C.D. Acts had been in force it was declared by experts that they resulted in an increase.in the disease; thirdly, bccause as a society of women we protest against the person and lion* our. of women being placed in the hands of tho police." . The union urges the Government to establish frco clinics for the treatment of peoplo Buttering from venereal disease, who voluntarily present themw?lves for treatment.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2728, 24 March 1916, Page 7
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138THE SOCIAL EVIL Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2728, 24 March 1916, Page 7
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