CONTAGIOUS DISEASE.
DANGER FROM RETURNED TROOPERS. j (Fp.om Oue Own Correspondent.) ; WELLINGTON, August 10. A deputation of ladies, headed by Dr Edith bluntly, waited on the Minister of Defence to-day to ask whether care was taken to protect tho_ community from I venereal disease that might have been contracted by soldiers who returned to New Zealand, and whether the Minister would provide for a women’s patrol of the streets, the vicinity of military camps, etc., to mitigate, if possible, the contraction of the disease. The Minister, in reply, said that every precaution was being taken to protect the public, and returned troopers with the disease were kept and treated till it was safe to let them go. With regard to the women’s patrol, he requested thorn to place before him any information at their disposal in reference to anything of the kind that had been clone elsewhere. In consequence of rumours regarding men who returned by the Willochra, hb said, ho had had special inquiries made, and had been informed that there had been only .seven cases in all of venereal trouble on the ship. Those men were all well and free from infection when the ship arrived.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3205, 18 August 1915, Page 9
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198CONTAGIOUS DISEASE. Otago Witness, Issue 3205, 18 August 1915, Page 9
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