Back around 1995, the elders were given a secret insert and instructed to include the following questions which were to be in addition to those found in the "Organised" book on pages 191 and 217:
When covering question 4 on page 191 under the subheading "Sanctity of Life", be sure to include the following questions:
a) What responsibility rests upon a person who is infected with a communicable disease that is potentially fatal?
Keeping an eye, not in personal interest upon just your own matters but also in personal interest upon those of the others. - Phil. 2:4
All things, therefore, that you want men to do to you, you also must likewise do to them. - Matt. 7:12
b) To avoid transmitting a potentially fatal disease to other,
1. why would it be better for an infected person not to initiate public displays of affection such as hugging and kissing?
2. why would it be best to attend the Congregation Book Study at the Kingdom Hall, if at all possible?
3. why should infected ones not react negatively when some choose not to invite them into their homes?
4. why would it be wise to choose voluntarily to have a blood test before beginning a courtship?
When covering Question 3 on page 217, be sure to ask the following question:
a) If one has a communicable disease, why is letting the presiding overseer know about it before that one gets baptised the loving thing to do?
If the candidate makes known, or if it otherwise becomes known, that he has a communicable disease which will require precautions, he can be informed that he may consider the following loving options:
1. He may attend the district convention, circuit assembly, or special assembly day, listen to the baptismal discourse given there, and then be taken to a running body of water and be baptised.
2. He may attend the district convention or circuit assembly or special assembly day, listen to the baptismal discourse, and then that evening it may be preferred that he be baptised in his hotel or motel room or a private home where there is a large tub that can be used for this purpose.
3. If he is sensitive to others becoming aware of the fact that he has such a disease and does not want it to become known to others, he may attend a district convention or circuit assembly or special assembly day to which his congregation is not assigned, listen to the baptismal discourse, and then be baptised in a running body of water.
4. He may request that the elders arrange to have a private baptism at the local congregation.
5. The elders should be sure to inform the brother(s) performing the baptism of the health issue. This will allow the brother(s) to make a personal decision as to whether he feels there would be arisk to himself that he would be unwilling to take.
