Synopsis of the final report of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases / by Douglas White.

  • White, Douglas
Date:
1916
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Credit: Synopsis of the final report of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases / by Douglas White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Se NOISES OF THE Report of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases. AUTHOR’S NOTE. This abbreviated Report of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases has been undertaken at the request of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, with the approval of Lord Sydenham, who was Chairman of the Commission and is now President of the National Council. It is nothing but a shortened Report. The reduction of length has been effected, not by wholesale omissions, but by systematic abbreviation. The paragraphs on the Economic Effects of these diseases, and the Summary of Recommenda- tions, have been given in full. On the more important points the decisions of the Commissioners have been italicised. One or two foot-notes of my own have been inserted by permission. Some of the information contained in the Appendices has been inserted in the text; a short summary of the Appendices is given at the end. I desire to thank my friend, Mr. -Henry Howell (R.A.M.C.), for his help in making the charts which show the incidence of disease; they are mostly small-scale repro- ductions of charts contained in the full Report. It is hoped that by means of this volume the contents of the Report may become widely known both to the interested public and such of the medical profession as have not time to study the original document. DOUGLAS WHITE, CAPD. i wk Wed, CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL, July, 1916. EPSOM.