Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1863: The Royal Albert Hospital opened in the naval...
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1863
The Royal Albert Hospital
opened in the naval centre of Devonport, to offer voluntary medical treatment to prostitutes during the first eighteen months of its operation.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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September 1869: A report critical of the Admiralty's administration...
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September 1869
A report critical of the Admiralty
's administration of the Contagious Diseases Acts was circulated to the press by four senior surgeons of the Royal Albert Hospital at Devonport.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
