SOCIAL HYGIENE.
MEETING OF WOMEN.
Wellington, Oct. 8.
A meeting of women on Saturday representing many societies, passed resolutions urging local bodies to make provision throughout the country for the efficient, free and confidential treatment of venereal diseases without penal or deterrent conditions and urging that the non-compulsory principle for treatment, isolation or detention of any pauper, prisoner or other persons suffer, ing from venereal disease. The meeting also endorsed the opinion of the British Royal Commission that if the diseases were to be stamped out it was necessary not only to provide medical means of combating them, but to raise the moral standards and practices of the community as a whole.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1917, Page 2
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112SOCIAL HYGIENE. Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1917, Page 2
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