CHIEF HEALTH OFFICER OF ONTARIO ON NOTIFICATION.
The venereal diseases are aptly called 4 private diseases.” No one affected thereby desires the fact to be known. Many of the victims, often innocent enough, are ashamed to go to a reputable physician, so they drift into the hands of quacks, unstrupulous druggists, or to the uses of patent medicines. No class of sick people are victimised to su< h a degree as are the unhappy subjects ot these diseases. If, as some suggest, these diseases were required to be notified, as are diptheria, smallpox, etc., the quack and charlatan would rejoice because so much more grist would come to their mill. The publicity occasioned by notification has made it a failure in the States and Cities of the United States (11 and 8 respectively) where it has been tried.
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White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 271, 18 January 1918, Page 6
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138CHIEF HEALTH OFFICER OF ONTARIO ON NOTIFICATION. White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 271, 18 January 1918, Page 6
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