PART II.—PREVALENCE OF VENEREAL DISEASE IN NEW ZEALAND.
Section 1.—Medical Statistics (A):
Medical Practitioners, Special
Returns from, Cases reported, Gonorrhoea and Syphilis:
Chancroid;
Prevalence. Clinic Statistics (B): Department
of Health Data; Clinic
Distribution; Age Distribution; Marital Condition.
Mental Hospital
Statistics (C): Syphilis and Dementia Paralytica;
Computations as to
Prevalence of Syphilis based on Fournier’s Estimate.
Incidence among
Maoris (D): Early Days, Miscarriages; Prevalence
at Present, Origin.
Death-certificates (E): Two Certificates, one
for Relatives, other for
Registrar; British Empire Statistical Conference,
Resolutions passed;
Committee’s Conclusion 9
Section 2.—Causes of the Prevalence of
Venereal Diseases in New
Zealand: Infected Individuals, neglect to undergo
or continue Treatment;
Chiropractors; Herbalists: Overseas Introduction;
Promiscuous Sexual
Intercourse; Professional Prostitution; Police Evidence;
“Amateur”
Prostitution; Social Distribution; Extra-marital Sexual
Intercourse,
Result of; Parental Control; Sex Education; Housing
and Living
Conditions; Hostels, Advantages of; Moral Imbeciles,
Danger from;
Delayed Marriages; Alcohol; Accidental Infections;
Dances; Cinema;
Returned Soldiers 11
PART III.—BEST MEANS OF COMBATING AND PREVENTING VENEREAL DISEASES.
Section 1.—Education and Moral Control:
Chastity, Value of;
Relationship between Sexes; Infected Persons, Responsibility;
Church and
Press influence; Parents duty to Children; Pamphlet
for Parents; Sex
Hygiene in Schools, Mode of Teaching; School Mothers,
Value of, in
Girls’ School; Instruction in Sex Hygiene; Adolescents;
Moral Standard,
Value of 12
Section 2.—Clinics for the Treatment of Venereal Disease: Distribution; Work performed; Male and Female Attendance; Locality of Clinics; Hours of Attendance; Lady Doctors; Supply of Apparatus and Drugs for certain Cases; Advertising Clinics; Extension of Clinics; Training at Clinics for Nurses, Students, &c.; Cases attending until non-infective; Male and Female; Lady Patrols; Social Hygiene Society, Work of; Laboratories and Free Treatment: Complement Fixation Test for Gonorrhoea 14 Page Section 3.—Licensed Brothels: Observations on; Dangers of Infection from; Statistics; North European Conference’s Resolution; Flexner’s Views; American Opinion. 15
Section 4.—Exclusion of Venereal Cases from Overseas: Health Act, 1920, Provisions; Attendances at Clinics; Recommendations; Immigration Restriction Act and Syphilis. 16
Section 5.—Prophylaxis: Packet System; Early Treatment; Inter-departmental Committee on Infectious Diseases, Conclusions; Notices in Public Conveniences; Prophylaxis, Efficiency of 16