MODERN DANCES
UNHEALTHY EXERCISE CONDEMNED BY CHRISTCHURCH DOCTOR. INJURIOUS TO YOUNG PERSONS. VEX PRESS -ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, August 29. Present day styles of dancing were criticised by Dr. P. Clennell Fenwick when speaking before the committee on venereal disease© which opened its sitting at Christchurch to-day. Dr Fenwick 6aid: “It is with regret l have to express my opinion that modern dances are injurious to young persons. I thoroughly believe in dancing as a healthy amusement and exercise but the ja n and other kinds of dancing at present in vogue are, in my opinion, most unhealthy. I feel sure if these were rendered unfashionable by public opinion a certain amount of unhealthy sexual excitement would he avoided.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11302, 30 August 1922, Page 4
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117MODERN DANCES New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11302, 30 August 1922, Page 4
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