SOCIAL DISEASE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1943, Page 2

SOCIAL DISEASE

ADDRESS TO MASTERTON WOMEN. BY DR. CLARA LEE. There was a large and representative attendance of women at a meeting held in the Y.M.C.A., Masterton, yesterday afternoon, ,when an address on social disease was given by Dr. Clara Lee. Mrs John Rich presided. In introducing the speaker, lyirs Rich said Dr. Lee was doing her utmost on the side of decency in human conduct. Dr. Lee outlined the types and growth of venereal diseases, which were dangerous because they were so insidious. However, they were readily curable if treated in the early stages. She stressed the importance of willingness to report, and the results if the disease were not properly treated. It might, she said, take year’s —even up to 30— to develop, but it rarely failed to eventually appear in some form in the body. The child of an affected mother had a scant chance in life unless the mother received pre-natal treatment. A vote of thanks to Dr. Lee was moved by Mrs T. R. Barrer and carried. Mrs E. N. Kilgour urged a healthy and normal approach to the sex problem, only to be gained by proper education of the young by qualified persons.