be
secured where possible.

The Committee recommend that provision be made at the clinics for prompt
preventive treatment of those who have exposed themselves to infection.

Lady patrols should be appointed in other centres to perform the kind of
work that is being carried on in Christchurch.

The Committee, having regard to the good work especially of an
educational nature which is being done by the Social Hygiene Society,
Christchurch, consider voluntary effort of the same kind in other
centres would be very helpful.

The Committee are entirely opposed to the Continental system of licensed
brothels, or a revival of the C.D. Acts in any shape or form.

They recommend legislation be introduced providing for what is known as
conditional notification of venereal disease. It will be the duty of a
doctor to notify to the Health Department, by number or symbol only,
each case of venereal disease he treats. If a patient, however, refuses
to continue treatment until cured, and will not consult some other
doctor or attend a clinic, it will then be the duty of the doctor last
in attendance to notify the case to the Department by name.

If the patient continues recalcitrant and refuses to allow himself to be
examined by the medical practitioner appointed by the Director-General
of Health, then the latter should be empowered to apply to a Magistrate
for the arrest of such person and his detention in a public hospital or
other place of treatment until he is non-infective.

The Committee also recommend further provision to deal with cases in
which persons suffering from venereal disease are not under medical
treatment and are likely to infect others. If the Director-General of
Health has reason to believe that any person is so suffering he may call
on that person to produce a medical certificate, which may be procured
free of charge from any hospital or venereal-disease clinic. If the
person refuses to produce such a certificate he or she may be taken
before a Magistrate, who may order a medical examination. Penalties,
including detention in a prison hospital, should be provided for
recalcitrant cases. The proceedings in all these cases are to be heard
in private unless defendant desires a public hearing.

The Committee recommend that before a license to marry is issued the
intending parties must sign a paper answering certain questions as to
freedom from communicable disease and from mental disease, and must make
a sworn s