SOCIAL HYGIENE.
DOMINION ASSOCIATION. FORMATION ANNOUNCED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. A number of recommendations are to be made to Parliament by the Dominion conference on the problem of criminal abortion, which met at Wellington today. The recommendations cover such matters as sex education of children and parents, family spacing, concessions to parents in respect of children, and domestic assistance for mothers. After the publication of the McMillan Report the Bishop of Wellington, the Rt. Hon. H. St. Barbe Holland, instituted a citizens' committee, ■which in March made a statement on the problem. A conference was convened subsequently by the bishop, Professor J. B. Dawson, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Otago, Mrs. J. D. Mackay, of Christchurch, and Dr. Hilda Northcroft, of Auckland.
About 40 items based on the statement of the Wellington citizens' committee were discussed. The decisions in general endorse the proposal to continue and extend the work of the conference. A Dominion Association for Social Hygiene is to be created. It was decided recommendations should be forwarded to Parliament, as the conference considered the subject should not be made a party issue.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1938, Page 13
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