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the Contagious Diseases Acts, is prohibited, the acts will at once become a dead letter, and the benefits which have undoubtedly been derived from their operation in the diminution of Venereal disease among the Troops will be entirely lost.
Compulsory Medical examination is the mainstay of the acts so far as their practical usefulness is concerned, the object being to detect disease in its earliest stage.
To make it voluntary would be tantamount to its abolition, would not merely be a retrograde step, but absolutely suicidal, and would undoubtedly tend to re-produce, foster, and perpetuate the worst form of Syphilitic disease, a form since the introduction and proper working of the Contagious Diseases Acts, now rarely met with.
The disastrous effect of such a measure on the health of Her Majesty's army, I consider to be in itself a sufficiently powerful argument against doing away with this compulsory examination.
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the Loutagions Diseases Acts, is prohibited, the acts will at once become a dead letter, ans the benefits which have
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undoubtedly
been derived from their operation in the diminution of Venereal disease amount the Troops will be entirely lost.
Compulsory Medical examination is the mainstay of the acts so for as their practical usefulness is concerned, the object being
detect disease in it's earliest
stage.
to make it voluntary would be tantamount to it's abolition,
would not me
merely
be
retrograde step, but absolutty suicidal, and would undoubteding tend to re-produce, foster, and perpetrate the worst for Syphilitic disease, a forin,
from 6
since the introduction and
proper working of the contagion Discaces Acts, now rarely
with.
met
The disactions effect of
such a measure on the
health of Her Majesty's army,
away
ought in
I consider that to do with this compulsory examination,
itself
to be a
sufficiently powerful argument
against
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