VENEREAL DISEASES.
EVIDENCE BEFORE BRITISH COMMISSION. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 11, 5.26 p.m. London, May 10. Before/the Venereal Diseases Commission, Sir Herbert Smalley, Commissioner of Prisons, gave evidence that under two per cent, of the persons admitted to local prisons were venereally diseased, and seventeen per cent, of prisoners in convict prisons showed symptoms of syphilis.
He did not favor notification, but recommended that free treatment should be readily accessible in order to stein the suffering.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 291, 12 May 1914, Page 5
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78VENEREAL DISEASES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 291, 12 May 1914, Page 5
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