PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO CONTROL THE SPREAD OF VENEREAL DISEASES Note by the Secretary

3. The English Sub-Committee, while they agree with their Scottish colleagues in regarding general notification of all cases as a desirable long-term policy, are more definitely opposed to its present application. They doubt the possibility of obtaining fully effective co-operation from private practitioners, and further regard it as probable that general notification, whatever the effort to make clear its anonymity in the cases of co-operative patients, would lead to the concealment of infection, or drive patients from the efficiently organised clinics to less expert practitioners.