Venereal disease rates are on the increase. Any person who goes to a public health office for a check-up and names a contact of the same sex will automatically be classified as a homosexual. Yet the State and administrative codes of California relative to health and safety state:

Sec. 3198 Health and Safety Code, State of California

MISDEMEANOR

Any person who refuses to give any information, to make any report, to comply with any proper control measure or examination, or to perform any other duty or act required by this Article, or who violates any provision of this Article or any rule or regulation of the State Board issued pursuant to this article: or any person infected with a venereal disease in an infectious state who knows of such condition and who marries or has sexual intercourse is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 3190

Every diseased person shall give all information required by this article, including name and address from whom the disease may have been contracted and to whom the disease may have been transmitted.

Sec. 3191

Every diseased person shall from time to time submit to approved examination to determine the condition of the disease.

Title 17 California Administrative Code 2636 b Preventive Medical Service

Reports of examinations, cases, investigations and all records thereof made under the regulation for the control of venereal disease shall be confidential and not open to public inspection and no part thereof divulged except as may be necessary for the preservation of public health.

(This is an administrative regulation-not passed by the legislaturesuch regulations being authorized by Calif. Law 21,100). No case, as of 10/25/62, has occurred over objection of defense counsel.

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