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if she could name people to give evidence, My wife said th: t both she and I would. She was told that nobody but doctors were to be admitted. She sent in a memorandum to form a baits of her evidence, and we presumed that she would be called
She was never to substantiate it and to give fuller details. #olled. Of course it was known that both of us were againet this system. I think you know that she holds the degree of b.D. of London, that she has been in active practice in the East in connection with Ledical kissions for over 20 years, and that he lived for two years on the edge of the Sadar bazaar
She had her of Rawal Pindi, the biggest Cantonment in India. interest in the matter as such, but also even though she had so much experience and the best medical degree given in the world, during her furlough in 1920 and 1981, she took a special course of the latest treatment on V.D. in London, and gottthe certificate which is given in such cases,
It would have been natural even if the Committee had decided histo call doctors as witnesses to have circulathéed the doctors in the Malay Peninsular. They did ask a dootor from Kuala Lumpur who was in favour of Regulation - (I am using this word in a technical sense all through) to come down from . Lumpur and give evidence, and they published in full the memorandum which he sent as he was unable to give evidence. Had they asked the doctors to give evidence they would have got presumably Dr. Tertius Clark who was on the Committee of doctors who refused to have this system introduced in the P.E.S. ten years ago. They would have got Lr.Connelly of Penang, & dootor of 30 years' experience of this country, who is the President in Penang of the N.S.P.V.D.,but is very much opposed to Regulation. Trey would have got Dr.Bolend who is a M.D. of London, who has recently set up here after a period of years in Borneo. He has done special V.D.work at S. Barthol-
In omen's Hospital, and 95% of his work here 18 V.L.worį. Borneo he tried to carry out a system of medical examination
He is against of prostitutes and knows it to be ineffective. the Report which has been issued. He told me, though I cannot speak from my own experience, that the specialist on V.L. in the Army here said he considered the Report issued here should
There be torn in half and thrown into the waste paper basket. are aiz k.A...C.doctors here in Singapore, and not one of them
They could not of course have wae asked to give evidence. given evidence as to the amount of diseae among the native population, and the amount of disease among the troops was given by a memorandum, but they could have given valuable opinton
18 doctors were asked as to the method of dealing with V.L.
to give evidence, and Dr. Rattray and Lr.Galloway also gave evidence, thereby going contrary to the usual custom of such comissions. A large majority of the 18 doctors testified
The evidence has been regarded as to an increase of V.D. confidential.
At the second meeting of the Ommittee, the ordinɛry President
It Mr. Lee Warner, was absent, and Dr.Galloway took the Chair. at that meeting that the lists were submitted for people to give evidence. I see that 13 medical witnesses gave evidence that in their own practice the figures of those suffering fro” V.D. ranged from 25% to 85%. As presumably these were doctors who were dealing mainly with that disease, it is not surprising that their figures were ao large. I presume that a specialist or one who is supposed to be specialised does have a large proportion of patients in the disease in which he specialises. Two more estimates were given, one by my wife, which was the
They are result of a y ar's work in the medical mission. called a rough survey' in the report -page 4, because they only included those who actually came for treatment for V.D. and did not include those who came for other disease bt who by their marks showed that in previous years they had suffered