Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Royal Hants Infirmary
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1870
The Royal Hants Infirmary
in Southampton refused to construct a lock ward for the compulsory treatment of prostitutes, in defiance of the wishes of the Admiralty
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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.