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<li>SA/MWF/N.11/1: Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, Our Reply to the War Office (on Maisons Tolerées), Jul 1940.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.11/2: Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, "Something You Ought to Know: Facts about Prostitution: With some notes on "Affairs"”, Jul 1940.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.11/3: Home Office circular letter regarding Report of the Departmental Committee on Sexual Offences against Young Persons, 17 Sep 1926.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.11/4: "Homosexuality and Prostitution", British Medical Association, Dec 1955.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.11/5: An Injustice to be Remedied: The Law and the "Prostitute", Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, 1950.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.11/6: Policy Advisory Committee on Sexual Offences, Working Paper on the Age of Consent in relation to Sexual Offences, HMSO, Jun 1979.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.11/7: Abraham A Sion, Prostitution and the Law, chapter three "The systems employed to deal with prostitution" and section on "The Street Offences Act 1959", Faber and Faber London (xeroxes).</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.11/8: Robert Sutherland, Sexual Delinquency, Address to the 36th National Conference of the National Association of Probation Officers, c.1950.</li>
<li>SA/MWF/N.11/9: Albertine L Winner, "Homosexuality in Women", reprinted from The Medical Press, Vol CCXVII, 3 Sep 1947.</li>

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