SEXUAL DISEASES.
COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION. SIGNIFICANT ACTION. (By Telegraph.—Special to Star.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. Significant action in connection, with the controversial question of the notification.' of certain sexual .diseases has been taken by the Department of Health, an Order-in-Council having been issued placing these in the schedule of notifiable iiifectious diseases. It is explained by the Director of the Hygiene Branch of the Health Department that the action which has been taken does not enforce general compulsory notification, but gives power where patients are by carelessness or other reasons endangering the health of others to enforce hospital treatment. These diseases now appear in the same category as .anthrax, bubonic plague and smallpox. The Department is advising medical practitioners of its increased powers, so that patients who refuse to undertake treatment or to take proper precautions may be forced to adopt safeguards in respect to the health of others.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 December 1924, Page 7
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147SEXUAL DISEASES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 December 1924, Page 7
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