Venereal disease and the public health.

نویسنده

G L MCELLIGOTT

چکیده

The subject on which I have been invited to speak this evening is a wide one and you will, I feel sure, forgive me if my remarks are not as comprehensive as they might be. I will try, however, not to exercise any private hobby horses and to be as generally discursive as I can, though I have always believed that in topics such as this the discussion is usually more valuable than the paper. After a good deal of thought I feel it will probably be most profitable first to remind ourselves of the problem as it existed in the past, for in the words of that wise man Sir Winston Churchill, "the longer you can look back, the further you can look forward". Secondly, to look at the position as it is today, and thirdly to try to discern, in the light of our past and present experience, what should be done to minimize the evils of which these infections are capable, as well as those from which they stem. Though it is not necessary to waste too much of your time with a detailed account of the venereal diseases problem as it existed in Great Britain before the setting up of the Royal Commission in 1913, a few vignettes, for the most part derived from the Commission's report, may serve to remind you of the gravity of the position before the first World War and of the pressing need then, not only for an investigation but also for something to be done as soon as possible. The Commission, which was set up by Parliament, was presided over by Lord Sydenham, and had four medical and seven lay members. Among the former were Sir Malcolm Morris, the well-known dermatologist, and'Mr. James Ernest Lane, a surgeon interested in venereal diseases, both of St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. The lay members included a canon of Southwark Cathedral, a well-known nonconformist divine, the Clerk to the Privy Council, a

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