SANATORIA FOR UNDESIRABLES.
TO THB EDITOR Ot "*HB PHMS." Sir —The report published in your paper re the deputation of "Social Welfare Workers" to the M.P.'s last Saturday rather gives the impression that we were advocating the compulsory detention of all consumptives. That is not so. What we did ask for was for the Government to make provision of special sanatorium treatment for undesirables By "Undesirables" we mean men and women of ill-repute, drunkards, etc., who have no regard for their own health, pnd who refuse to take the simple precautions which would _ prevent other persons from contracting the disease, fir. Blackmore has, I Know, urged that the Government should do something in this direction. These are the people who are a_ great menace to the community, and it is very urgent that something should be done. There would need to be compulsion in these oases. It is only in such cases that Dr. Blackmore advocated compulsory-deten-tion 1 know. Hoping I have made the Linwood, August 11th.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17223, 13 August 1921, Page 9
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