A V.D. PROBLEM
A “tag” to the report on the venereal disease clinic at tho Wellington Hospital, presented to the board on Thursday, was as follows:—“Tho amount of work in this section keeps »t about the same level from month to month. In the gonorrhoea section there were 26 names taken from tho attending list Some were discharged as cured, others have left the district, and others again I have not seen for months. It is this latter, type that is the danger to the community, and represents the men who' iorm their own standards of cure and stop treating:a when cure in their opinion is obtainedI think that notification and power to bring these men up for examination is the only way to stop tho danger to the public ever present with these seltstylcd cured oases. As regards tn* syphilis section, attendance and results continue to bo satisfactory/’
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 54, 26 November 1921, Page 12
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149A V.D. PROBLEM Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 54, 26 November 1921, Page 12
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