VENEREAL DISEASE
WOMEN'S SOCIETIES MEET.
(United Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, This .Day. A meeting of women on. Saturday, representing many societies, passed .resolutions urging the local bodies'to rnake provision throughout the country . for efficient and free confidential treatment of venereal diseases, without penal ! or deterrent conditions, and urging the nori-compulsory Xprinciple for treatment to be observed in all cases; no attempt being-made to enforce treatment,• isolation; or detention on any pauper, prisoner, or other, person" Buffering' from venereal disease; also-that the meeting endorses the opinion*of the British 'Rdy--al Commission that if diseases are to be stamped out, it is necessary not only to provide medical means of combating them, but to raise the moral standard and ' practices of the' community as a whole. '" . ,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 8 October 1917, Page 5
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122VENEREAL DISEASE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 8 October 1917, Page 5
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