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SUSPECTED V.D. CASES AUSTRALIAN DECISION (Special Australian Correspondent.) (9.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Aug. 13. The. State Premiers’ conference yesterdaynagreed to give immediate consideration to a proposal by the Commonwealth Government for gazetting a regulation providing power to detain and examine persons suspected of being sources of 'infection of social disease. The Minister of Health, Mr. E. T. Holloway, stated there was considerable evidence that normal social and moral standards were being seriously affected by war conditions, especially in the large towns. There was definite evidence that the amount of venereal disease was increasing. It was proposed by regulation that if a suspected person fails to present himself at the time and place specified, the chief health officer may authorise the police to arrest him for examination. Any person found suffering from veneral disease may be detained 'in an approved institution.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20861, 13 August 1942, Page 3
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