VICE TRADE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20414, 26 November 1940, Page 2

VICE TRADE

ORGANISED IN SYDNEY MANY V.D. CASES SYDNEY, Nov. 10. “I strongly suspect that vice i: organised ? i Sydney on a commcrcia basis,” said Professor Harvey Sutton yesterday. ‘‘The number of venereal disease cases being treated at the public hospitals certainly points that way.” Professor Harvey Sutton is head oi the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Sydney University. “We have made little or no attempt to uncover and destroy the various organisations that exploit organisec vice,” he said. “In the 10 years of 1929-38 in New South Wales there were 51,000 cases of venereal disease. “In 1938 there were 200,000 male attendances at V.D. clinics and 30,000 female attendances, of which 180,000 male and 28,000 female attendances were in the metropolitan area. “We must break down the barriers of silence that have shut away all public discussion of a disease that it taking such toll of national health, filling our mental hospitals and ruining the lives of children before they are born. “Ignorance and stubborn refusal of the public to face the facts and impart essential knowledge to their children are factors largely to blame. “Next to T. 8.,” said Professor Sutton, “venereal disease is our greatest problem. We must act and act quickly to educate the public to its dangers.”