THE RED SCOURGE
NOTIFICATION PROBLEM. COMPULSION - OPPOSED. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 21. Sorial diseases formed the subject of a lengthy discussion at the Dominion Convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union to-day. The recommendations of the commission, proposed to be incorporated in a
bill, that notification be compulsory were opposed, the opinion being expressed that voluntary notification would have better results. It was considered that legislation which would tend to place the sufferers an the plane of criminals would result in patients evading notification. The convention favoured wider propaganda stressing the dangers of venereal disease.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11785, 22 March 1924, Page 6
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97THE RED SCOURGE New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11785, 22 March 1924, Page 6
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