CO129-472 - Others - 1921 — Page 346

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The Commission travelled through America, Canada, Japan and Shanghai; everywhere they have found people beginning to wake up and teko an interest in the

position, Activa staps are being taken to suppress these discashe, not only in the way of tree went, but also in the fora of legislation,

The Commiecion zust have the co-oguration of the

medical profession and also of thu general public, Again Thur var o dute Dean we iwo found a very ready response both from the medics profusion and from the gener 1 public The press have not hesitated to print details which a year

or two ago vare unthought af,

One of the many difficulties in our own emintry hes

beon the quack, but they have already toolished him, It is

only too common to have patients who have been in the hands

of such ven, and, who, owing to delay, nave lost the best

ohance of cure,

I should like to say a few words neout my own ex-

perience, For the 1st 10 or 12 years I have boss actively

employed in the tractament or the dise: se, One thing that

impressed me most is that a large proportion of the victims

ere morally inocent, I refer to the men and chi” fran,

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I do not get the women off the streets, I got the married

women with families infected by their husbands. There has

been a constant strena of romun uuring tut last ten years,

I have code to the conclusion that this stream of women

■uld continue to go on uniuss these women bögen to undor-

stand something about the problem. Ås ». rule they do not

come for treatment until their change of curu hus füllen

They do not realise the danger to the chilárua,

these come to me having been infected by their mothers,

through ausolute ignorance, I therefore oame to the cm –

clusion thut treatment is one thing, but the general public:

must also be educated to understand the problem, It is the

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