Power To Examine For Venereal Disease
MELBOURNE, This Day,
The Premiers’ Conference today agreed 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 report of the Minister for Health (Mr 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 is proposed by regulation that if the suspected person fails to present himself a 1 the time and place specified the chief health officer may authorise the police to arrest him for examination. Any person found suffering from venereal disease may be detained in an approved institution.
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Northern Advocate, 13 August 1942, Page 2
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