VENEREAL DISEASE

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23587, 14 March 1942, Page 3

VENEREAL DISEASE

■ Having read your very fine of iVlarch 3, venereal diseases, article i,. ess m y appreciation of the may 1 IVjPvvhich you handled what is a vital social evil. To m y un uhment. only one correspondent w has so far ventured to express 1° d ? L, and a possible solution. I l»s ■„,«*. with all due deference n°N’ K Cox. that it is useless wait,o for our members of Parliament to in? We should commence, do f' ]• „ r ali meetings, and we would er %?V chance of something being ; p As one with n knowledge of the ,itc of Hr- social scourge as seen in fhP syphilitic children. I am able to if not write, convincingly. In an S ?H newspaper iasf night. I read of dis°insnres made in (ho United States by Son-General Parrin. which said: ?rhe basis of his amazing statement is that social disease has assumed the nroDortion of a costly outbreak among L vicemen in one of our most expanded war industries. p We should not delude ourselves by saving “That is in America.” It is our j,Jtv to see that it i» not New Zealand, our Air Force lads go to Canada. Perhaos someone better informed than I rnuld tell me of the means taken in Germany to combat this evil.—Yours, etc " WIDOW, i March 13, 1942.