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1 January 1873: A riot broke out among the prostitutes held...
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1 January 1873
A riot broke out among the prostitutes held under the Contagious Diseases Acts in the lock wards of the PortseaHospital
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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.
