VENEREAL DISEASES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 128, 23 October 1914, Page 4

VENEREAL DISEASES.

A QUESTION' OF METHODS.

By Telegraph. —Per Trcsu Association. Wellington', Last Night. At to-dary'a meeting of 'tlhe Hospital and Charitable Aid Board 'the following letner wag received from Dr. Tolburst, lion secretary of tho Wellington Division of tlio British. Medical Association:—

"With, regard to this resolutions of your board in connection with the adoption of more i-ti'ic.ive mci'hods to cbeek vener.ul disease, i 'have been instructed to write and inform you that this division ki in sympathy with the inovcimicait ■but many of Ule reaoliuions were objected to by members. At our last meeting on September 4th, the following motions m»-c carruu: meeting believes that medical lectures on venereal disease could seive no useful purpose, beyond iir.-tnicting the M'dieaice in methoits of prevention after exposure to infection, 'i'iio meeting suggest thai this instruction would not meet with the approval of a large tioction of the community, and the attention of lino public to' the neceasJly of im-mediate treatment upon a-ppM-rancc of venereal disease, and to the s-inou-s nature of those diseases, could bo obtained by otiler wuihods than lectures. (■>) That it would be advisable to djkvtaking; action sinlil the pros-cut Itoi'ui Commission on Venereal Dis-eases, sitting in England, has published its report." The chairman of the Foard, Eev. W. A. EvniM. expressed astonishment at the tone of the letter, and said, ho tShoug'ht that lectures delivered by capable experts -would be of material a.-»iis.ane.i In dealing with the problem.