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Medical Officer, St. | Helens Hospital. | Dr. E.W. Sharman, Port Health
Officer. | Dr. W.H. Pettit. Auckland, 18th August, 1922 | Mrs. De
Treeby, representing Women's | International and Political League. | Dr.
D.N.W. Murray, Medical Officer to | Prisons Department. | Mr. R.J.
Pudney. | Mr. Egerton Gill. | Mrs. Harrison Lee Cowie. | Mrs. E.B.
Miller. | Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie. | Dr. E.H. Milsom. | Dr. E. Carrick
Robertson. | Rev. Jasper Calder. | Mr. F.L. Armitage, Government |
Bacteriologist. | Dr. W.A. Fairclough. | Dr. A.N. McKelvey, Medical

Officer, | Costley Home. Christchurch, 29th August, 1922 | Dr. A.C.
Thomson, Officer in Charge | Venereal Diseases Clinic. | Dr. P.C.
Fenwick. | Mrs. E. Roberts, President Women's | Branch, Social
Hygiene Society. | Mrs. A.E. Herbert. | Dr. A.B. Pearson, Bacteriologist
and | Pathologist, Christchurch Hospital. | Nurse E.M. Stringer, Health
Patrol. | Dr. W. Fox, Medical Superintendent, | Christchurch Hospital. |
Dr. C.H. Upham, Port Health Officer. | Dr. C.L. Nedwill, Medical
Officer to | Prisons Department. | Dr. D.E. Currie. | Dr. J. Guthrie. | Dr.
W. Irving, Medical Officer, St. | Helens Hospital. | Dr. A.C. Sandston,
President, Men's | Branch Social Hygiene Society. | Major R. Barnes,
Salvation Army Officer. | Dr. A.B. Lindsay. Dunedin, 31st August,
1922 | Dr. A. Marshall, Officer in Charge | Venereal Diseases Clinic. |
Dr. A.R. Falconer, Medical | Superintendent, Dunedin Hospital. | Dr.
H.L. Ferguson, Dean Medical Faculty, | Otago University. | Dr. Emily
H. Seideberg, Medical Officer, | St. Helens Hospital. | Dr. J.A. Jenkins.
| Canon E.R. Nevill, representing the | Dunedin Council of Sex
Education. | Miss Pattrick, Director of Plunket | Nursing. | Mr. J.M.
Galloway, representing Society | for Protection of Women and Children.
| Dr. F.R. Riley. Wellington, 12th September | Dr. W. Young.
(forenoon only) | Mr. T.R. Cresswell, Headmaster, | Wellington College.
| Mr. W.W. Cook, Registrar-General. | Mr. Malcolm Fraser,
Government | Statistician. | Mr. W.D. Hunt. | Rev. R.S. Gray.
Wellington, 13th September | Dr. Frank Hay, Inspector-General of
(forenoon only) | Mental Defectives. | Mrs. Henderson, Representative
Women | Prisoners' Welfare Society and | Wellington Branch National
Council of | Women. | Rev. Van Staveren, Jewish Rabbi. Wellington,
14th September | Dr. Agnes Bennett, Medical Officer, St. | Helens
Hospital. | Mrs. F. McHugh, Health Patrol. | Mr. F. Castle, President
Pharmacy Board, | and Chairman Wellington Hospital Board. | Dr. D.M.
Wilson, Medical Superintendent, | Wellington Hospital. | Mr. A.H.
Wright, Commissioner of Police. | Mr. W. Dinnie, ex-Commissioner of
Police, | representing Bible in Schools | Propaganda Committee. | Rev.
J.T. Pinfold, D.D., representing | Wellington Ministers' Association. |
Canon T. Feilden Taylor, appointed by the | Bishop of Wellington.
Wellington, 15th September | Major Winton, Salvation Army. | Mr. W.
Beck, Officer in Charge Special | Schools Branch, Education
Department. | Dr. D.E. Platts-Mills, representing Young | Women's

Christian Association. | Mrs. Morpeth, representing Young Women's |
Christian Association. | Miss Dunlop, representing Young Women's |
Christian Association. | Mrs. Glover, Salvation Army. Wellington, 26th
September | Consideration of report. Wellington, 10th October |
Consideration of report. Wellington, 12th October | Consideration of
report. Wellington, 13th October | Consideration of report. Wellington,
18th October | Final meeting. |
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It will thus be seen that, apart from time spent in travelling, the
Committee have met on seventeen days and have heard seventy-four
witnesses in person.
The Committee would like to express their thanks to the witnesses,
many of whom had gone to considerable trouble to collect information
and prepare their evidence. Thanks are also due to the British Medical
Association for their willing co-operation and assistance; to the large
number of members of the medical profession throughout the
Dominion who responded to the Committee's request for information;
to Dr. J.H.L. Cumpston, Federal Director-General of Health,
Melbourne, for much Australian information on the subject,
particularly in relation to Commonwealth quarantine provisions; to Dr.
Everitt Atkinson, Commissioner of Public Health, Perth, West
Australia, for a most lucid and informative report on the working of the
legislation in force in that State; and to many other persons who by
means of correspondence and literature have placed at the Committee's
disposal a large amount of information which has been of material
assistance in considering various aspects of the problems involved.
The Committee desire to acknowledge their indebtedness to their
secretary, Mr. C.J. Drake, whose wide knowledge of public-health
matters has been of material assistance in their investigations and who
has discharged his duties with marked zeal and ability.
SECTION 2.--VENEREAL DISEASES AND THEIR EFFECTS.
One result of the Committee's investigations has been to show that the
public in general are very ignorant regarding the nature of venereal

diseases, and their lamentable effects not only upon the individuals
infected,