SOCIAL HYGIENE BILL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10106, 13 October 1917, Page 7

SOCIAL HYGIENE BILL.

(p£B PIIKSS ASPOOIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 12. The Canterbury Division of the British Medical Association has paacsd (lie following resolution. This division urges the Council of the British Medical Association to protest. against such an important measure as ■,he Social Hygiene Bill being hurried through Parliament before people have had time to consider it. This meeting considers the Bill is drawn up is pandering to tile prurient propensities of t lie public; also that with out compulsion confidential notification the Bill will be of no avail. Further that the Public Health Department and the nodical profession, instead of a lay board, should have the control of these diseases. A largely attended meeting of women to-day carried a resolution protesting against the attempt to re-enact the C.l). \et under the,guise of the Social Hygiene Bin. . , Dr. Blackmore, who was one of the •hief sneakers, in the course of his condemnation of the Bill, remarked that no other country in the world suffered so much from hasty ami ill-considered legislation as New Zealand. A further resolution was carried to the (feel that every facility should be given f n .(. and voluntary treatment of sufferers from venereal disease, and urging (!„. , sliiblislimeni of farm colonies for persons suffering from such disease. _ The meeting was also in favour of raising (he ;l „c (jf''consent, the employment of women police, and Instruction in moral education.