VENEREAL DISEASE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17281, 23 September 1916, Page 10

VENEREAL DISEASE.

[From Our Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, September 22. Undeterred by the difficulties associated with a public campaign .against venereal diseases, the Hon G. W. Russell, Minister of Public Health, has made several practical moves, the most significant of which is tho refusal to ■permit*of the landing from a direct mail steamer of a man known to be suffering from 'a bad form of venereal trouble. He was segregated while the steamer was in New Zealand waters, eventually returning to England, having failed to land here on account of being officially classed as an undesirable immigrant. ' The Minister has decided to make a notifiable disease opthalmia neotorum, an eye affection afflicting children at birth, one result of sexual disease. Circulars*will be sent to hospital boards shortly detailing proposals dealing with the disease, the plan being based on the English Local Government Board's system. •