VENEREAL DISEASE.
MINISTER OPPOSES MAKING IT -NOTIFIABLE.
At the conference between the Palmerston Hospital Board and the Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister for Public Health, at the Hospital last week, the Minister said his attention had been drawn to a letter from Mr J. K. Hornhlow, a member of the Board, urging upon the Government to make venereal disease notifiable. The Minister said that this was in direct conllict with the report of (lie Royal Commission set up at Home, which contained, besides men, three women and two women doctors. This was the greatest commission ever set up to enquire into venereal disease. He said that he would never take* steps by making the disease notifiable to victimise innocent wives who had caught the disease from I heir husbands, or innocent daughters who had caught the disease through no fault of (heir own. To make the disease noliliable, was to put innocent people on the same plane as people who followed immorality as an occupation, and whose Just took them into places of contagion.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1696, 10 April 1917, Page 3
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174VENEREAL DISEASE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1696, 10 April 1917, Page 3
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