Article Title: The Contagious Diseases Acts
Journal Title: Lancet, The
Orientation: medical profession; liberal; medical reform
Date Run: 1857 to 1890 indexed
Publication Place: London
Publication Frequency: Weekly
Periodical Location: British Library
Creator/Author: Unsigned
Date of Publication: July 29, 1871
Description: This leader typifies several entries in volume 2 that praise the Contagious Diseases Acts for diminishing the number of infected prostitutes and thereby protecting the population at large; see also, volume 2, pp. 113, 130 and 761.
Publication Information: v. 2, pages 166-167
Subject Heading (LCSH): Sexually transmitted diseases - Law and legislation (LCSH)
Prostitutes - Legal status, laws, etc. (LCSH)
Contagious Diseases Acts (LCSH)
Language: English
Editor: James G. Wakley (Principal Ed.), Thomas H. Wakley and Thomas Wakley Jr.
Publisher: John James Croft
Temporal Coverage: 1870s
Article type: Leader [editorial]

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