A DOCTOR’S OPINION
RED SCOURGE NOT PREVALENT IN GAOLS. Drl Murray, medical officer of Auckland prison, giving evidence before the Venereal Diseases Committee in Auckland, according to a Press Association message, stated that 2511 male prisoners had been admitted to the gaol from July, 1920, to July, 1922. Of these 28 had been suffering from venereal disease. Of 210 females admitted during the same period four were similarly affected. Only ono prisoner had been detained for completion of treatment under the Criminal, Detention Act. The chairman (Hon. W. H. Triggs, M.L.0.) expressed tho opinion that the percentage of prison population suffering from the disease was much lower in Auckland than elsewhere. With this view Mr Murray concurred, fourteen years’ experience of prison work having convinced him that the disease was more prevalent in private life than in gaols.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11293, 19 August 1922, Page 6
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