VENEREAL DISEASES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 19 June 1914, Page 5

VENEREAL DISEASES.

TO PREVENT THEIR SPREAD. COMPREHENSIVE RECOMMENDATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The following special committee of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was recently appointed to consider the question of venereal diseases, more particularly in view of the report of a committee of the recent Medical Congress in Auckland, and tihe report on the subject furnished by the Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, Dr Hardwiclc Smith: Rev. W. A. Evans (chairman), Dr Pktts-Millsj Mrs McLaren, Dr McKcnsie, Rev. J. K. Elliott, Rev. H. Van Staveren, Messrs F. Castle! D. McLaren, and J. Smith.

After carefully considering tlic report referred to, <ths committee has made the following recommendations to the Hospital Board: (1) That facilities! he provided at the hospital and dispensaries for the treatment of persons suffering from venereal diseases; (&■) that no charge ho made to the medical practitioners- in the Wellington hospital district for tests made in the bacteriological department in connection with examinations made in regard to venereal diseases: (3) that the local branch of the British Medical Association foe aslted to cooperate with the Board for the purpose of giving lectures in connection with venereal diseases; (4) that all institutions, such as schools, universities, young men's and women's associations, etc., have a course of health lectures delivered by members of the medical profession, and that lectures be given Jjy the medical officer attached to ttie defence forces when in.camp; (5) that the Minister in charge of the defence forces give instructions to discourage girls from visiting camps; (6) that the Slipping companies be approached with a view to making grants to their medical officers for the purpose of enabling them to give lectures on venereal diseases to the officers, passengers, and crew on ships; (7) that the public Ibodies, such as hospital boards, make giants to members of the medical profession for lectures (to be duly advertised) to young men and women; (8) that the Education Department foe appTpnched with a view to making the subject of sex physiology a compulsory rubject on tin syllabus for teachers' examinations, and that a course of lectures be given to teachers by medical practitioners (where possible by women doctors to women tractors); '(9) that copies of the foregoing recommendations he forwarded to nil the hospital boards in the Dominion, and that they he asked to co-operate with this Board in an urgent crusade; (10) that a deputation .of members of this committee wait upon the Minister of Public Health at the earliest opportunity, and that the foregoing recommendations regarding pavluetvts of grants foe especially brought before him with a view to obtaining assisance from the Government: (11) that the Minister of Public Health he recommended tj have an Ordcr-in-Couneil adopted, giving effect to the provisions contained in clause lfl of "The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment Act, 1913." The Minister of Public Health lias been appro iched with a view to recoivin<,' the numbers of the special committee as deputation in connection with the above resolutions. The report was adopted.