20 FEBRUARY 1915, Page 17

SOLDIERS AND VENEREAL DISEASES.

[To THE EDITOR. or TIM "SPECTATOR....1 Ste,—Shortly after the outbreak of the war the Liverpool Medical Institution prepared pamphlets, suitable for young soldiers, written in plain English, and warning them of the dangers incurred by taking risks of contracting these diseases. Through the medium of the Spectator we were enabled to place many thousands of these tracts. We desire again to ask your valuable assistance, and invite inquiries, addressed to the Librarian, Medical Institution, Liverpool, from chaplains, officers, medical seen. and others interested in the welfare of our soldiers, who will undertake to distribute these. and thus help to combat dangers that may bo avoided, and which are most serious to the moral and physical