WHERE IS THE REMEDY?
Congratulations to your correspondent on the subject of venereal disease in your issue of the Bth inst. It is really time the Government took action to suppress this disease, which is rampant in the country. If there were 23,000 treatments in Auckland as reported that is a disgrace in so young a country. The Government and medical profession are equally to blame for permitting this dreadful scourge to continue without check. Tt was mooted soon after the war that school teachers should impart instruction to their pupils, but this seemed absurd. I suggest that the Government or municipalities in all large centres throughout the country should erect museums of anatomy showing models of the disease in wax of both sexes, with instructions by catalogue or handbill how to act, and further that medical practitioners advise the proper authorities immediately a case comes under their notice. Institutions as described are patronised freely in England. With this motto over the entrance: "Wise men take notice and fools pass 011." W.J.S.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 194, 17 August 1936, Page 6
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172WHERE IS THE REMEDY? Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 194, 17 August 1936, Page 6
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