SOCIAL DISEASES.

Northland Age, Volume 15, Issue 7, 25 October 1917, Page 7

SOCIAL DISEASES.

WHAT WOMEN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEM.

We arc in receipt of a copy of jn excellent little pamphlet, on the above subject from the Minister for Public Health. It is written by Dr. Daisy Platts Mills, Medical Examiner for the Public Service. In his foreword the Hon. G. W. Russell says that the pamphlet has been written at his request and is addressed to the women of the Dominion. Upon them as the present and future mothers of the race depends the responsibility of handing down a posterity that is pure and un-tainted-children physically and mentally sound. That these dreadful social diseases, which befoul the very fountains of human life, exist in our country is a tragic fact to which we may not shut our eyes, and the Government of New Zealand desires to assist in the cure and the ameleoration of the sufferers. A careful perusal of the pamphlet will act as a warning, and will at least offer a hope of remedial measures to sufferers. All who know or have reason to fear that they are infected arc advised to consult their physician or to visit the nearest Public Hospital. The pamphlet which has a greater importance in these times of war,—when thousands of troops are continually on the move—than in normal times may be had from the Department of Public Health and should be in every household.

passer-by and inveigling him into spending money in the pnrsuit of philanthrophy wrote in large letters on the pavement either side of the commercial premises the celebrated railway warning “Stop !” People suggested to “ Pet” (the affectionate sobriquet by which the artist is known) that this was a departure from the civic .law theiren made and provided. “Pet” disagreed on a point of law, and “ Stop” arrested the passing passenger. However almost before the artistic caligraphy had dried upon the sidewalk a municipal message arrived commanding, nay demanding that the word should be wiped out. “ Pet” rose early and obeyed the municipal mandate with a bucket of water, a cloth, and a bar of soap. (From the Observer.)

Lately 'a soldier returned to Sydney, after two years’ service in Gallipoli and France. He injuries were sufficiently severe to render him a “ cot case” but the military granted him with the privilege of spending the first night of his return to his native land in the bosom of his family. His wife and daughter celebrated his home-coming by going to the play that evening, and leaving father to mind the youngest of the family. Next morning the ambulance called to take the wounded (and neglected) hero to the military hospital.