Seven reasons for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases (Women's) Acts 1866-1869 / issued by the City of London Committee for obtaining the repeal of those Acts.

Date:
1878
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Credit: Seven reasons for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases (Women's) Acts 1866-1869 / issued by the City of London Committee for obtaining the repeal of those Acts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    THE REPEAL OF THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (WOMEN’S) ACTS 1866—1869. ISSUED BY THE CITY OF LONDON COMMITTEE FOR OBTAINING THE REPEAL OF THOSE ACTS. The avowed toleration, and in some countries the licensing, taxing, and regulating, of public brothels, has appeared to the people an authorizing of fornication.-The Legislators who have patronized receptacles of prostitution ought to have foreseen this effect.” . Archdeacon Pale/s Moral Philosophy. DYER BROTHERS, 21, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. 1878. PRICE TWOPENCE.