SOCIAL DISEASE
WOMEN URGE LOCAL ACTION. [Per Uxited PnEss Association.] WELLINGTON, October 8. i A meeting of women on Saturday, representing many societies, passed resolution* urging the local bodies to make provision throughout the country for efficient, free confidential treatment of social diseases without penal or deterrent conditions, and urging the non-compulsory principle for the treatment to be observed in all cases* that no attempt be made to enforce ment, isolation, or detention, on any pauper, prisoner, or other person suffering from such disease; also that the meeting endorse the opinion of the British Royal Commission that if the diseases are to bo stamped out it will be necessary not onlv to provide medical means o\ "combating them, but to raise the moral standards aiid practices of the community as a wholel
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Evening Star, Issue 16549, 8 October 1917, Page 6
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132SOCIAL DISEASE Evening Star, Issue 16549, 8 October 1917, Page 6
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