THE SOCIAL EVIL.
ATTITUDE OP W.C.T.U.
[BY TKLEGBAPO. — association.] Gisborne, Sunday. A most instructive address was given at yesterday's session of the W.C.T.U. Convention by Dr. Elizabeth Gunn on "Purity and Moral Education in Individual, Social, and National Life."
The following resolutions were carried "This convention expresses its satisfaction with the decision of the Christchurch Hospital Board to make provision for an inexpensive and easily-accessible medical treatment, without registration or pi.*.icity, for all sufferers from venereal diseases: and, further, the convention urges all "nospital boards to follow the same course.'
This convention also declares "That any attempt to legalise the social evil by regulation, will be strenuously opposed. The regulation system is condemned as being wrong in principle and a failure in practice. Regulation increases vice and fails to reduce disease. It tends to corrupt the young and to demoralise the police charged with its administration." A vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Fenwick for his action in moving the Hospital Board to adopt measures for the relief of sufferers from venereal diseases.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15552, 9 March 1914, Page 8
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