KISSING DANGERS
HOW CHILDREN ARE INFECTED. Sir Malcolm Morris, F.H.C.S, representing the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, in his evidence 011 tlio Criminal' Law Amendment Bill, publislied recently, said that disease has been spread' by the war and "will spread much more later on." He gave numerous instances of children being infected by kissing. A soldier homo 011 leave in Manchester kissed a friend's child. Four weeks later tlio child developed syphilis oil the lip; a sister next contracted it by kissing this infected child; and then tlio mother fell a victim. In London a father infected two of his children by kissing them. Sir E. Blaskwell, Under-Secretary for tho Home Office, said: "Thcro is a very much larger number of young girls on the streets than there were, say, 20 years ago—quite young girls of 15 to 17 years of age. This is due to the greater freedom young girls are now allowed by their parents. -There is a very considerable amount of venereal disease among girls of this age."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 151, 21 March 1919, Page 6
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172KISSING DANGERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 151, 21 March 1919, Page 6
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