VENEREAL DISEASE
New Regulation Proposed In Australia MELBOURNE, August .12. The Premiers’ Conference today agreed to give immediate consideration to a proposal by the Commonwealth Government for the gazetting of :r regulation providing power .to detain and examine persons suspected of being sources of infection of social disease. The report of the Minister of Health, Mr. Holloway, stated that there was considerable evidence that normal social and moral standards were being seriously affected by war conditions, specially in large towns. There was definite evidence that, the amount of venereal disease was increasing. It was proposed by the regulation that If a suspected person fails to present himself at the ti.me and place specified, the chief health officer may authorize the police to arrest him for examination. Any person found suffering from venereal disease may be detained in an approved institution. '
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 270, 13 August 1942, Page 6
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140VENEREAL DISEASE Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 270, 13 August 1942, Page 6
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