A complete handbook of treatment : arranged as an alphabetical index of diseases to facilitate reference, and containing nearly one thousand formulae / by William Aitken.

  • William Aitken
Date:
1882
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A complete handbook of treatment : arranged as an alphabetical index of diseases to facilitate reference, and containing nearly one thousand formulae / by William Aitken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    At fourteen stations under the Act, the average annual strength of the troops was 53,813, among whom admissions for primary venereal sores averaged 40 per 1,000, and 78 per 1,000 for gonorrhoea. On the other hand, at fourteen other sta- tions not under the Act, the average strength of the troops being 45,316, the ratio of admissions among them was 86 per 1,000 for primary venereal sores, and 121 for gonorrhoea. Thus, at the stations not under the act, the average rate of admission for both forms of disease was 103.5 per 1,000, as against 59 at the stations under the Act. At these fourteen stations under the Act, the highest rates of admission for primary sores were 53 and 54 respectively per 1,000, at Aldershot and the Curragh ; whereas at the fourteen stations not under the Act the rates of admission for these diseases ranged upwards to 140 in Warley, 154 in Dublin, 205 in Manchester, and 250 in London. So with regard to gonor- rhoea, the highest rate among the fourteen stations under the Act was no at Winchester per 1,000 ; whereas, at the fourteen stations not under the Act it ranged upwards to 151 in London, 161 in Warley, 163 in Sheffield, and 177 in Manchester, per 1,000. [d.) In unprotected [The term unprotected district is meant to include the principal cities of the United Kingdom where women can practice prostitution in any public thoroughfare, at any hour of the day or night, without hinderance, and inveigle men to their homes ; and this, too, under the very eyes of the authorities, who are powerless to interfere unless the solicitation be to the annoyance of any passenger or householder, who must in that case accompany the police to the station to charge the woman with the offence, which is rarely or never done. Should the authorities have credible evidence that the woman so conducting herself is suffering from a contagious disease, which she may communicate to others having relation with her, they cannot in any way interfere to prevent it. This woman, when unable any longer (in conseqnence of the se- verity of her disease) to follow her miserable calling, has no other resource (prostitution failing),to procure her a livelihood than to fall back on the foul wards of a workhouse (Acton).] cities like London, Manchester, Dublin, Sheffield, Preston, the severity of the cases is greater than in the protected [A protected district is one where a woman, instead of con- tinuing wholly or in part to gain an honest livelihood, walks the streets, soliciting different men, and consequently comes under cognizance of the police as being a common prosti-
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