Venereal Disease
Sir,—lf, as Dr. Platts, venereologist to the North Canterbury Hospital Board, has told readers, only Trichomonas and the para-types of venereal disease are likely to be spread innocently, then research is urgently needed into the causal factors of the increased incidence of syphilis and gonorrhoea. In these days of full employment and secondary education for all, social diseases should be almost non-existent. Young people are no longer ignorant. Women are not forced into prostitution because they are starving. Most young people can afford to marry early. Why, then, is V.D. increasing? Chief suspect as a causal factor must be alcohol, since it lowers the inhibitions and is being consumed in increasing amounts by ever-widening sections of the community. The typist or teacher or shop assistant from a good home, who normally would never dream of permitting intimacy with a party partner, could well do so after being plied with gin. —Yours, etc., CITIZEN. September 20, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31170, 21 September 1966, Page 16
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158Venereal Disease Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31170, 21 September 1966, Page 16
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