VENEREAL DISEASES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 214, 10 March 1914, Page 2

VENEREAL DISEASES.

WOMEN CONDEMN REGULATION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, Monday. At Saturday's session of the W.C.T.U. Convention, Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, superintendent of the department of social purity, gave a most instructive address on "Purity and Moral Education in Individual, Social and National Life." The fallowing resolutions were carried: — ''This Convention expresses its satisfaction with the decision of the Christchurch Board to make provision for inexpensive and easily accessible medical treatment, without registration or publicity, for all sufferers from venereal diseases; and, further, that the Convention urges all hospital boards to follow the same course." "This Convention also declares that any attempt to legalise the social evil ! by regulation will be strenuously opposed. The legislation system is condemned as being wrong in principle and a failure in practice. Regulatioa increases vice, and fails to reduce disease. It tends to corrupt 4he young, and to demoralise the police charged with its administration," A vote of thanks was accorded to Dr. Fenwick for his action in moving the Hospital Board to adopt measures for the relief of sufferers from venereal diseases.