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MRS. NEVILLE-ROLFE has resigned her office as honorary secretary of the British Social Hygiene Council. Fortunately this does not mean a severance of her interest in the Council. She has been elected a, vice-president, and has also accepted a new office of honorary adviser, which will enable her to place at its disposal her great store of accumulated knowledge and experience. As honorary secretary of the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease from its foundation thirty years ago, she took the principal part in organizing the whole scheme of popular education in this subject—one hitherto taboo. In these early days the work of popular enlightenment on venereal disease was financed by a direct grant from the Exchequer; but the difficulty lay in persuading local authorities to avail themselves of the educational material offered by the Council, and in overcoming the resistance of many hospital authorities to the establishment of free clinics. In this work, and also in the organization of lectures to the armed forces during the War of 1914–18, Mrs. Neville-Rolfe was indefatigable.
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Mrs. Neville-Rolfe, O.B.E.. Nature 155, 448 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155448b0
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