VENEREAL DISEASE.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1925, Page 1

VENEREAL DISEASE.

NEW REGULATIONS. [uy Tt r.Kon.u'ii —per mess association.] WELLINGTON. May ID. At. a meeting of the .Board of Health, the Minister of Health submitted for consideration proposed regulations giving effect to the recommendations of tlie Committee on Venereal Diseases, it having been lottitd that the j lowers desired could be* secured by the issue ol Regulations. The Board decided to support the issue of regulations, and to urge the Minister to bring them into force without delay.

It is understood the regulations will require till persons suffering from venereal disease to submit to medical treatment. If a patient fails to continue the treatment, until cured, it becomes the duty to the doctor to notify the case confidentially to the Director General of Health.

In addition. Power is given to the Director-Gom i til of Health, w hen he has reason to believe that any peron is suffering from venereal disease in a communicable form, to require such person to submit himself for examination to some mcdbal practitioner, who shall forward Ids report to the Direct.,rGeneral of Health. If the report is positive, the person must submit to treatment, and if the person fails to dii so. ltd then becomes liable to a line of £2O.

Power i- also given to the Direct' l1 * General of Health to h/.ue deten

lion orders, requiring persons .suffering from venereal disease to be detained in u hospital, or other place, where they may lie e(feelively isolated. Anv person so detained has the right to appeal to a Stipendiary Magistral,*.

A special arrangement will be made for free treatment, where the circumstances nf the person comemed require this. •phe Director-General has the power to arrange for treatment at tho cost of the State.

Medical men are also required to give warning notices to all patients suffering from venereal disease. 'I lie. warning notice is that they are required to Pontitttic treatment, and ii they fail, they render themselves liable to a. line. If the patient is not married. the patient is to lie warned against marrying until medically cerlilied as cured.

A fine is provided lor knowingly infecting any other person, and also for working in any rapacity whore a patient is likely to infect food for human consumption.

All the person' concerned in the administration of the Regulations are required to maintain strict secrecy, and are forbidden tu communicate any matter except as may lie required in the performance of their duties. All notices and communications sent through the post, are required to he mar,.,, "confidential."

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CII RLSTTTH'KC 'll COM PETITIONS. CHRISTCHURCH, May IP. To-night competition results ineluded the following -

Humorous Recitalioii for Ladies— Mi.-s Sarah Aitkcii (Invercargill) and Mi,-,' Anita Winkel (Dunedin) SOpts. each (eqiini) U: Miss .lean Murcldc (Christ; hurch) S-Tpts. did. Oratorical Display, lady or gentleman Mis Marie I‘a Hilt (Greymotilh) SI pts. Ist: Mr Cyril O'.XVdl (Greymoiith) . -Jn 1 1 : Mr l>. I laberlicld (Christchurch) Fdp's. "I'd. Vo: al Scholarship (meld. - L'‘k (Tillev (Christchurch ) 10', points Hi: A. <; Lunglev ! Dunedin i IGJpis. 1 lioso points are inink for A. and B. Sections. Dominion Te-t Recital. I'* l ' tP'iilli'- |>. Al'( I rath (Gi'cymoiith) SO points Ist.: A• A* .Tolmslon (Cliristcliui'cli) 80 points, -iid.