Contagious Diseases

Question 1

Contagious Diseases Act 1864

Answer 1

• Applied to specific Garrison town
• Authorised police to arrest women if they were thought to be a common prostitute to go under medical examination
• If they were found with a disease they could be detained for 3 months for treatment or until cured
• Cleanliness improved and a decline in prostitution

Question 2

Contagious Diseases act 1866

Answer 2

• Women suspected to be prostitutes had to be registered
• they would be Subject to fortnightly inspection
• Many wanted the regulation in major cities aswell

Question 3

Contagious diseases act 1869

Answer 3

• Extended the 1866 act to five additional subject districts
• Extended the period of time that women could be kept in hospital to 9 months

Question 4

Parliamentary Committee 1862

Answer 4

• Setup to investigate the CDA
• Wanted greater regulation
• Both Liberals and tories involved
• Sir John Liddell was the leader of the Navy involved

Question 5

Reasons why the acts were introduced

Answer 5

• STI’s were rife in the army and Naval garrison town
• Army were losing more men to STI’s than in battle
• 10% of men has fallen to STI’s in Garrison towns
• Most evident in the Crimean war

Question 6

John William Acton

Answer 6

• Docter
• 1957 proposed that state intervention was needed to identify and treat the disease

Question 7

Threat of Prostitution

Answer 7

• 500,000 Women were prostitutes
• 1 in 60 houses were Brothels

Question 8

National Association for the repeal of the CDA

Answer 8

• 1869
• Member of the public joined at the our elf the tests and the un ethical methods used by the feds
• Excluded women

Question 9

Ladies National Association for the repeal of the CDA

Answer 9

• Set up by Elizabeth Wolstenhome
• Judith Butler is the figure head
• Founded in 1869

Question 10

General Committee of the LNA

Answer 10

• A group for ladies protest
• 124 members
• Published in the Daily News

Question 11

Butler and the Leadership of the LNA

Answer 11

• Figure head
• Gifted Speaker
• Travelled 600km in her first year to address 99 meetings
• Had a wealth of campaigning experience ( Active in the campaign to slavery
• She took prostitutes into her home in Liverpool

Question 12

Leadership of the LNA

Answer 12

• Mainly Affluent ,middle class people
• Had financial independence
• Evangelical Christians

Question 13

Methods of campaigning

Answer 13

• Between 1870-86 - 18,000 petitions were signed by 2.5 million people
• Meetings held in churches town halls and working mens clubs especially in the north and in the Midlands
• Posters and Adverts were distributed

Question 14

Embarrassing the Liberals

Answer 14

• Twice in 1870 repealers opposed Henry Storks when he stood for election in parliament
• He implemented a system for regulating prostitutes when governor of Malta and was heavily linked to the military
• Posters were distributed where storks had made in support of a plan to subject soldiers wives
• The posters had a poem mocking him
• Storks was defeated .

Question 15

The Shield

Answer 15

• The newspaper of the LNA
• Publicised case of women who had been prosecuted of the CDA
• Suicide of Mrs Percy