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the facilities offered with reference to free diagnosis

should be issued, together with information as to post-

graduate courses, and circulated to all duly qualified

medical practitioners,

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(2) Nurses, We recommend that the hospitals should

be asked to include in their training for nurses adequate

instruction in venereal disease,

(3) Midwives, We understand that midwives are trained

and registered under the Health Department. Eight midwives are maintained in the various districts at the expense of the

Health Department,

We believe that mere might be done to link up the

medical practitioner with the midwife, especially in order

to prevent opthalmia neonatorum,

The fact that in one district one Government midwife

has only taken one case in the year seans to show that

public health propaganda is urgently needed,

(4) Parents and teachers. One of the strongest pre-

ventive agencies in the campaign against venereal disease is to secure clean teaching on the facts of life and sex to the rising generation, It is recognised that this cannot be done by the inclusion of direct teaching on sex hygiene in class except in the case of adolescent puils at con- tinuation classes, but much can be done in individual teaching if the teachers themselves are adequately instructed. The teacher exercises an influence not only over the child, but over the parents of the pupil, fully instructed teacher can therefore disseminate information to the adult population by dualing with the parents, and can secure their co-operation in a cleaner and more wholesome attitude

We there– towards the sex problem on the part of the child, fore recommend that special courses of lectures for teachers should be arranged by the Education Committee, and that