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The Contagious Diseases Acts
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2004.031.x
Subject(s) - navy , medicine , state (computer science) , gerontology , demography , family medicine , law , political science , sociology , computer science , algorithm
“The great prevalence of venereal affections [ sic ] among the troops serving in the United Kingdom, and the men of the Royal Navy on the Home Station, from 1860 to 1863, led to the adoption of measures to reduce the frequency of that class of diseases, by subjecting the unfortunate females, who were the chief sources of its diffusion, to medical treatment while in a state capable of communicating it to healthy persons.”