NOTIFICATION OF DISEASE

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 56, 7 March 1911, Page 2

NOTIFICATION OF DISEASE

/ . AUCKLAND, March ,6. The Conference of the British Medical Association passed' a resolution expressing the , opinion tihat i ! coerciye. measures dealing witti venereal diseases would result in. the driving ofHictims into the hari^s of, unqualified practitioners* and would magnify the evil, but the Association was prepared to recommend the compulsory modification of such diseases by numbers only provided no-coercive measured would be .^undertaken by the Health Department unless in the opinion of the-practitioners notifying the disease such moasnres are necessary in the interests of public health. The Association recommended the adoption and modification of the Prisoners' Detention Act in force in New South Wales. v.