VENEREAL DISEASE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1943, Page 3

VENEREAL DISEASE

PROPOSALS IN AUSTRALIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) SYDNEY, May 31. Stricter control over the conduct of young'people in public places and severe restrictions on the sale of alcohol to women are recommended by the Australian National Health Council to be part of the Commonwealth campaign to combat veneral disease. Other recommendations which will be submitted to a further conference of State Health Ministers include consideration by the authorities of biological instruction in secondary schools and education to secure voluntary premarital examinations.

The Federal Minister of Health. Mr Holloway, admitted that the £25,000 voted by the Commonwealth Government to launch a campaign against veneral disease was totally inadequate for the task. The New South Wales Government has supplemented its State’s share of the Federal grant by a further allotment of £5OOO. Other matters discussed by the conference included the submission that smoking by young women was lowering Australia's national health standards and should be restricted. While no recommendation was made, the weight of opinion was that smoking' was harmful.

The conference urged that special attention to better and cheaper housing must form a big part in post-war planning and declared that domestic electrical appliances such as Refrigerators and washing machines should be an integral part of such housing.