Prostitution considered in its moral, social, and sanitary aspects, in London and other large cities and garrison towns : with proposals for the control and prevention of its attendant evils / by William Acton.

William Acton

Date:: 1870

Credit: Prostitution considered in its moral, social, and sanitary aspects, in London and other large cities and garrison towns : with proposals for the control and prevention of its attendant evils / by William Acton. 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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TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PROSTITUTION DEFINED. CHAPTER II. PROSTITUTION IN ENGLAND. ITumber of Brothels in London—^Number of Houses in which. Prostitutes Lodge—Probable Number of Prostitutes . . Z-9 Homes of Prostitutes.—Dress Houses—Introducing Houses— Accommodation Houses 9-16- Haunts oe Prostitutes,—^Pleasure Gardens and Dancing Rooms in the East and West End of London 16-26' The Career of Prostitutes.—The Harlot's Progress—^Mar- riage of Prostitutes, and their Amalgamation with the Civil Population 2649 CHAPTER III. DISEASES THE RESULT OF PROSTITUTION. Civil Hospital Experience in London—English Military Hos- pital Experience in our Garrison Towns under the Conta- gious Diseases Act—British Navy Experience—Our Mer- chant Service Experience—Experience derived from Private - Practice .'.-... 50-72

Prostitution considered in its moral, social, and sanitary aspects, in London and other large cities and garrison towns : with proposals for the control and prevention of its attendant evils / by William Acton.

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