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THE report of the Committee of Inquiry on Venereal Disease recently published x has been awaited with interest. It is a short report, as reports go. and it is an unanimous report, a result ardently desired by all those who have the matter at heart. The conflict of opinion on how best to root out venereal diseases from the community will still be remembered. It was voiced mainly by members of two societies, the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease and the Society for the Prevention of Venereal Disease, and was prominent both in the lay and medical press. The tone and publicity of the discussions seemed at the time regrettable, but it certainly aroused wide interest and helped to spread a knowledge of the main facts about the diseases, and in the end led to the calling together of this committee, the report of which, we believe, will give a fresh impetus to the attack on this world-wide infection. If the report should succeed further in uniting the fighting forces in this country, and make the two societies, which have in truth a common aim, join forces, this would be a crowning achievement. Both have expressed officially or otherwise their acceptance of the report. The co-operation of the two “bodies would be so greatly for the good of the cause that we trust mutual goodwill will surmount any difficulties that remain.
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Prevention of Venereal Disease. Nature 112, 153–155 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112153a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112153a0