The Felding Star. Oroua and Kiwifea Counties Gazette. MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1907. Quack Medicines.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 353, 26 August 1907, Page 2

The Felding Star. Oroua and Kiwifea Counties Gazette. MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1907. Quack Medicines.

The Chief of the Health Department refers in eulogistic terms to the progress being made in dealing with quack medicines and practitioners, and devotes special praise to the attitude of the best class of newspapers in excluding "doubtful" advertisements relating to the trade from their columns. It is not generally known that all the ptpers belonging to the Newspaper Proprietors' Association have entered into an agreement to exclude such advertisements from their columns, whether they come within the law proscribing them or not, purely in the interests of the community. There is no other country in the world where this has been done, and the sacrifice is by no means a small one, as an estimate of the revenue refused made by one paper places it at £500 a year. The evils of the class of advertisements specially addressed to "young men" are incalculable, and if the victims of the outrages perpetrated in the name of remedies for unknown diseases and afflictions could only be persuaded to speak, the community would be horrified at the revelations. The trouble ; has always been to distinguish between what are genuine and what are bogus remedies, and the only feasable course — to bar every suspicious advertisement — has been sensibly adopted by the clean Press of the colony. ______^^_^_