Summary Of The Recommendations Of The Royal Commission On Venereal Diseases

Author : Frank Egerton Hodgins
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527982741
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Interim Report on Venereal Diseases written by Frank Egerton Hodgins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Interim Report on Venereal Diseases: And Copy of an Act for the Prevention of Venereal DiseaseTo His Honour Sir John Strathearn Hendrie, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.May it Please Your Honour:I have the honour to report that by Your Honour's Commission bearing date the 8th day of November, 1917, I was directed to make certain enquiries relative to the care of the fedbleminded and the prevalence of venereal disease. In my commission permission was accorded to make from time to time partial reports on the subjects arising during the investigation.I have now the honour to report that having prosecuted to a certain extent the enquiries which I was appointed to make, it has appeared to me desirable to suggest by way of an interim report that there are some aspects of the second subject matter which ought to be brought speedily to the notice of Your Honour's Government so that, if deemed desirable, action may be taken at this Session of the Legislature of this Province.In order to understand the problem of controlling venereal disease it must be remembered that owing to its very nature it has heretofore been regarded as something to be mentioned with bated breath, disgraceful to the individual, and nauseating to the public. Hence it has been allowed to spread practically unchecked and the medical profession have been obliged to ignore rather than to study it, so that to-day it is fully understood in its entirety by comparatively few of the ordinary practitioners. Recently, however, and before the war, its baneful social effects had become so marked as to compel public attention, and efforts had been made to acquire some statistics illustrating its extent and indicating its chief sources. Since the war there have been in all the countries affected, a vast body of men under military medical control, and this has afforded a means of further systematizing the tabulation of cause and cure. But this very fact has directed attention to the undeniable conclusion that in the civilian population is to be found the real centre of contamination, and that if it is to be controlled an effort must be directed primarily to seek out, isolate, and treat those propagating the disease or suffering from its effects, not only in the larger cities and towns, but in the smaller rural communities.The inherent conditions surrounding the spread of the diseases of syphilis and gonorrhoea to which I have alluded, render this task somewhat difficult, and indicate that while some rather drastic interference with individuals may have to be resorted to, yet, if progress is to be made, public clinics as well as sufficient private treatment must be put on a free, and, in some cases, a compulsory footing, and proper remedies generously supplied, in order to overcome the reluctance of the persons afflicted to disclose their condition and to induce them to initiate for themselves or submit to proper and systematic treatment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.