FAILURE TO REPORT FOR TREATMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 64, 12 September 1942, Page 4

FAILURE TO REPORT FOR TREATMENT

Two married women who pleadec guilty in the Magistrate's Court yesterday to failing to submit themselves for treatment for venereal disease and to failing to carry put the directions of a medical practitioner, were convicted by Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. The Magistrate warned them that if they appeared before him again for this offence they would be sent to prison. The defendants were Dorothy Smith and Lily Abraham. Senior-Sergeant T. Campagnolo said that the women had defaulted in attending for treatment for venereal disease.

Smith said she was prepared to undergo treatment. It was not her fault that she had missed attending in the past, as she had been working elsewhere. "Your situation and the necessity of conserving the health of the community are such," said the Magistrate, "that matters of that nature must not be allowed to prevent you from carrying out your obligations, and you will have to adjust your employment so that you can do this. . "I give you fair warning. If you come up again before me you will be put in prison." Abraham had nothing to say. The Magistrate told her that the regulations had been introduced not only m her interests, but—and this was more ;mportant—in the interests of the whole community. If she did not comply with the regulptions the State would intervene and deprive her of her liberty.