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: February 3, 1872
Description: This article is typical of many in Vol. 1, 1872, in which the medical profession stresses the reduction in prostitution and the reclamatory power of the Acts. Attacks on the opposition movement to the C. D. Acts are also common to such articles; see, volume 1, 1872, pp. 230, 258, 490, 518 and 707.
Publication Information: v.1, pages 160-161
Subject Heading (LCSH): Public health (LCSH)
Anti-feminism (LCSH)
Sexually transmitted diseases (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: Journal article

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