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of Committees, and the officers and members of the Executive
Committee and Medical Officers in charge of Venerel
Disease Clinice under the National Council. We come ider it
desirable to embody in this report the full statement of the case for and aginat prophylaxis and self-disinfection which is contained in (c). It is as follows:-
It is claimed by some that, if disinfection is carried out by the person exposing himself, there is practically no risk, provided (a) it is perfectly carried out; (b) no time is lost.
There are three principal views of this question:-
(1) That (a) all men should be instructed in self-
disinfection; (b) chemicals should be supplied to
them before exposure.
(2) That self-disinfection of any kind ought not to be
taught.
(3) That mon should be advised to wash with soap end
weter, but that further measures should be in the hends of medical practitioners.
(1) The National Council does not recommend No.1; ite
reasons are as follows:-
(a) Unless perfectly carried out there is no security; it is impossible to instruct the civil population
to this degree.
(b) The use of self-disinfection packets encourages
exposure to infection; and imperfect self-disinfect- -ion, by the false sense of eecurity which it engendare, is thus likely to increase rather than diminish the prevalence of venereal disense. (c) It is found that many men, in spite of instruction,
look upon the chemicals given to them as a means of cure and not only of disinfection, and that they continue to use then when the disease is already established, thus rendering their cure longer, more
difficult or impossible.
(d)