A SATIRICAL SPECIALIST.
NEW ZEALAND’S BAN ON V.D. LITERATURE. London, Jan. 6. Sir Archibald Reid, of St. Thomas’s Hospital, in a letter to the “Westminster Gazette',” commenting on New Zealand’s ban on Ettie Rout’s book “Safe Marriage,” states that his book on the prevention of venereal disease is practically banned in New Zealand, as no bookseller will stock it unless he has a guarantee from a local medical man. . Sir Archibald Reid says: “formerly, all diseases, especially if on a large or unusual scale, were regarded as punishments of sin and manifestations of the wrath of the Deity, and were best combated by prayer and offerings and stricter adherence to a local and temporary systetm of taboos. Attention was thereby directed from sanitation. These ideas, though evidently still current in New Zealand and Darkest Africa, have been, or are being, abandoned in civilised States. I wonder if anyone can tell me what New Zealanders do read?”—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 21, 8 January 1923, Page 3
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