DREAD DISEASE

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 167, 15 July 1914, Page 6

DREAD DISEASE

AND ITS CURE. ])i.i( "I'ul'.s TO TAKE A'.TION"-' I li.c mutter ul the terrible danger In j the community at large lay the extreme I prevalence ..!' venereal disease i" -pite | lot lhc fa-t that il can be readily cuicil lav nil eariv applicition of .-alvarsan. | will probahl'v be brought to a bead at; jthe next Mtt'mjr of ttiac Hospital Hoard, j |ll L, nndcrstond that 011 that occasion 'one of the hospital olik-ials who will j sive a lenjfthy report of the matter will :i,-'.< that due publicity be {riven t" | tl.o fact that any citizen sufl.'erin<r from I the disca.-e may have free treatment on I application. According to pTonaineiat I.oral medical men, the enormom- in--1 -rcase in this disease au.l the false 'public modest v in keeping the subject dark, lias re.-ultcd in a slate of affairs that should no lunger be allowed to c-nii-liniic Kxperiments with ealvarsan. it is claim.-I. have now conchirively proved 'that when taken in its early .-tajtes tlie |dise,ise may be entirely eradicated I within a !''■'• days. Aloreover, it is n<>« neco.-ary that a patient shall be conli 1 t.,' tln- hospital while under treat.met. Any,,,,, ui-hinp to be cured of the complaint may l.v application have I an injection made and then >»' treated I us an uiit patient. i riioiioh the fa.-t i.- not publicly known, j 'it numb.'!- uf sulTcrern liave applied f"i' ; 'ldi'i ni tbe liicj.ital. and they liav| i l.cm s,j t.-i ..!• "1. It ie stated mi Mi' I ; In--.I authority that in ii" ca.se when | Ital-cu in it, early stay/cs has the r.-iuedy I i liiiicd lv 1 lire. I A mc.'tiiiL' ul the Hospital Hoard will' probably be held next week, when it i- j j iiiider.-lon:! that one of the hospital nfliI .-ials will plac ihe matter in its true ; liolit l.i't'uic iiU brolwer iiu'dieal men. lie will show tint i"iio,auee us to the iiniiil'i' uf tin" dicase, and also as to the ! fact that a reliable cure is at hand, have j resulted in an enormous and rapidly- j oio\viiio populace ul a.Te;-tcd persona. The fad that the matter has been I "ivcii little publicity be will sliuu tv be I j a danifcroii- type ol false modesty, add-! I ill", llini ilie time has now arrived | when the newspaper,* should tackle ihe Is.ll.jc, t, without iiiincino words. ■ I InvistioalUiiM have been carried on for a considerable time throughout AtisIti'alasia. vvitli n view to dtricoveriii"; the extent of the ravage* ot tiie di-ea.-,... lit has bcin ilclinite'y ascertained that a lar.oi- percentaoe of ca-cti in the mental honpita.'s are attributable to this cause. j The doctor in whose hands the matter will be placed at the unming meet- ] in.'.' will probably nlio-vv that a larjre 1 (conomic savinjr will be effecte I. Loth I in hospitals, asylums and elsewhere, it \ tiie Auckland Hospital take the initiative an,[ invite out-patients. f...r treat tuent. Anoi her medical man is authority for the -tateiin-iit Unit in prescribiii-r for the disease in it.- initial stages, tibcre hart been practically no record of failure in fhi- country. fn eases where Ilie !d\-u-c has been allowed it, o„ , )n ~,, j some lime 1111,-.hock.-d. the period under which the pal lent ha., been treated has luFiir.iliy been lonjrer. but a permanent '•.»'.• ba< u.-ually been eii'ected. 'lh,- di-turbino feature about the ,-u-c. h.-wever. is that of inherent di-case l \" »'•' occasions! the dhild. even at birth, has assumed t |„. disease in a stave j i'.|iiiva!cnt to that which prevail,, i„ a lir-t contra t„r. who has been safferin-r lor a considerable time. " ''- »»de,-too.l that local medical I I'/,"" :,i " l-aetically of one opinion in | !"'" '"■«"■'■ reiilisiuj; that pubUcitv audi -•ducatmii are ihe chief deterrent fat-