"Tell the Truth and Shame the—Wowser!" In a lengthy report on tho ravages of venereal disease recently presented to tho Wellington Hospital Board, tho medical superintendent (Dr. Hardwick Broith) stated: "In Wellington incomplete statistics show that during the last two years 500 cases of primary syphilis were treated: but that number is small compared to tho total number who contracted this disease. , . . Syphilis was the cause of GO per cent of mental defectives. .... In Infantile mortality syphilis provides premature births, still births, death m early infancy. Amongst tho serious effects of congenital syphilis are blindness, deafness, stunted growth, paralysis, dementia, parulytica, imbecility, fits and general debility ... all caused by a disease which is prevalont and should' be-atarnpedoovat—a disease far moro fatal m its results than is tuberculosis or cancer."

NZ Truth, Issue 464, 9 May 1914, Page 5

"Tell the Truth and Shame the — Wowser!" In a lengthy report on the ravages of venereal disease recently presented to tho Wellington Hospital Board, the medical superintendent (Dr. Hardwick Smith) stated: "In Wellington incomplete statistics show that during the last two years 500 cases of primary syphilis were treated: but that number is small compared to tho total number who contracted this disease. , . . Syphilis was the cause of 5O per cent of mental defectives. .... In Infantile mortality syphilis provides premature births, still births, death in early infancy. Amongst the serious effects of congenital syphilis are blindness, deafness, stunted growth, paralysis, dementia, paralytica, imbecility, fits and general debility ... all caused by a disease which is prevalent and should be stamped out — a disease far more fatal in its results than is tuberculosis or cancer."