ess of the age.

Apart from the venereal disease among those who indulge in promiscuous
intercourse, there are many cases in which innocent wives are infected
by their husbands, and other cases (not so frequent) of innocent
husbands being infected by their wives.

Children suffer innocently from venereal disease, not only by
inheritance from infected parents, but by accidently coming in contact
with the germs on towels, &c., which have been used by a patient. There
are also cases which come before the Courts where disease has been
conveyed directly in crimes of violence by sexual perverts.

The free clinics in the chief centres are conducted by experts, and are
doing good work. Their influence for good is greatly impaired, however,
by the fact that a proportion of the male patients and the majority of
the female patients leave off treatment before they are cured. As the
law stands there is no power to compel them to continue treatment, and
in many cases they resume promiscuous intercourse and spread the
disease.

Evidence has been given of other cases, some of them of a very shocking
character, in which persons suffering from venereal disease are not
seeking medical treatment and are communicating the disease to others.
As the law stands at present there is no power to restrain them from
such conduct or to compel them to receive medical treatment.

SECTION 2.--RECOMMENDATIONS.

The Committee stress in the strongest terms the duty of moral
self-control.

They urge the cultivation of a healthier state of public opinion. The
stigma at present attached to sufferers from venereal disease should be
transferred to those who indulge in promiscuous sexual intercourse.

Parents have a great responsibility as regards the instruction and
training of their children so as to safeguard them against the dangers
resulting from ignorance of sexual laws. There is too little parental
control generally in New Zealand. The Committee recommend the training
of teachers, and provision for giving appropriate instruction in
schools.

Classification and, where necessary, segregation of mentally defective
adolescents is recommended.

The following medical measures for preventing and combating the disease
are recommended:--

The clinics should be made more available by being open continuously.
Every effort should be made to secure privacy. A specially trained nurse
should be in attendance at women's clinics, and women doctors should