Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
SOCIAL DISEASES.

The British has a custom of referring
questions of great public moment con-
corning which there is great difference
OF opinion to royal commissions. These
commissions consume much time in in
~Vestigating and celebrating, but then
they report the facts given and the re-
Communications made carry great
weight.
In their great disappointment over
their poor showing during the Boer wa,
they appointed such q commission to
investigate the causes of physical de-
t~erioration of the ace. When kock had
asserted that tuberculosis of cows was
or no great Importance as a cause OF
NM tuberculosis the report of a
British royal commission corrected the
error into which he great German au-
thorfty was leading h world.
In 1913 the International Medical con-
gress meeting in London drew attention
10 the prevalence of venereal diseases.
The English Review, h Morning Post,
the Pail Mall Gazette. and other great
London dailies told their readers the
truth without mincing words. A royal
commission was formed. This commits
sion spent nearly $40, 900 on an investi-
cation. They have recently reported.
They found venereal diseases to be
one OF the great problems of society.
They found that 10 per cent of the peo-
ole of English cities have had syphilis
and about 80 per cent have had gonor-
'hoea. The diseases are not so prevail
ant in the country. The diseases are
contagious. They cause widespread and
very important after effects. They are
durable. They are ~preventable. There
fore. they conclude that society must
go to work to eradicate them as it has
done with yellow fever and cholera and
is doing with smallpox and malaria.
The report makes 35 recommended
tons for governmental activities.
Among them are the following:
Extended facilities should be made
available for the diagnosis Of %venereaI
diseases, by laboratory methods.
Every government should provide
ample hospital and dispensary facilities
sor treating every person affected with
Venefeal disease who desire treatment.
Hospital cases should be taken care
OF in general hospitals.
Special venereal disease hospitals
are not advised.
Treatments should be free to all. Eve
ming clinics at hours convenient to the
working people should be established
Subject to proper safeguards the auth
critics should provide ~Salvarsan OF
equally good remedies gratuitiously to
those who cannot pay for same.
Every patient in hospital. dispensary
or clinic, or by private physician SHOULD
be given a card containing instructions
and warning.
The government should provide am
pie opportunities for the education anG
framing of physicians and medical
students. Prisoners should be treated
for their venereal diseases until cured
The advertisement of patent medi.
cines for venereal diseases should no
be allowed. infectious venereal dis.
ease should constitute a bar to mar
rlaSe. Teachers should impart sex in
formation to pupils in private inter.
views.
More careful instruction should b,
provided i'm regard to moral conduct a.
bearing upon sexual relations through
out all types and grades of education
Such instruction should be based OIL
moral principles II spiritual consid
erations and Mould not be based onl,
on the physical consequences of i'm
moral conduct.