CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
DOCTORS OPPOSE COERCIVE MEASURES. [BY TELEGRAPH — PSESS ASSOCIATION.} "AUCKLAND, This Day. A conference of the British Medical Association passed a resolution expressing the opinion, that coercive measures dealing with venereal diseases would result in driving the victims into the hands of unqualified practitioners and magnify the evil, but the association was prepared to recommend compulsory notification of such diseases by numbers only, provided that no coercive measures be adopted by the EDsalth Department, unless in the opinion of the practitioner notifying the disease, such measures are necessary in the interests of public health. ' The- association recommended the adoption of a modification of the Prisoners' Detention Act as in force in New South Wales.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 54, 6 March 1911, Page 8
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115CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 54, 6 March 1911, Page 8
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