Report of Royal Commission upon the Administration and Operation of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Contagious Diseases Acts
- Date:
- 1871
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of Royal Commission upon the Administration and Operation of the Contagious Diseases Acts. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(11.) METROPOLITAN POLICE. Contagious Diseases Acts. Return showing tlie Course of Medical Examinations to which Common Women have been subjected in each of the under-mentioned Districts during the Time the above-mentioned Acts have been in operation. Period during which Examinations took place once in District. When inl'oi m(.c). against, or strongly suspected of being' affect 3d wiih a Contagious Disease. 3 Jlonths. 1 Month. ] 3 Weeks. 2 AVeeks. Portsmouth - Devonport - Sheerness - Chatham Woolwich - Aldershot - Windsor Shorncliffe - Colchester - Greenwich - Winchester - Dover - Canterbury - Deal - ' - Maidstone - Gravesend - Southampton Dec. 1864 to Jan. 1869 Apr. 1865 to July 1868 June 1865 to Oct. 1866 Do. do. Nov. 1866 to Aug. 1868 Apr. 1867 to Mar. 1868 Oct. 1866 to May 1870 July 1868 to Jan. 1869 Oct. 1866 to Aug. 1867 Aug. 1868 to May 1869 April to Dec. 1868 Jan. to June 1869 Jan. 1869 to Feb. 1870 Dec. 1868 to Dec. 1869 July 1868 to Dec. 1869 June to Sept. 1869 Feb. to Dec. 1870 Jan. 1869 to Dec. 1870 May to Dec. 1870 Aug. 1867 to Dec. 1870 May 1869 to Dec. 1870 Mar. 1868 to Dec. 1870 Dec. 1869 to Dec. 1870 Do. do. Sept. 1869 to Dec. 1870 Jan. to Dec. 1870 Do. do. Do. do. Do. do. Feb. to Dec. 1870 Do. do. Do. do. May to Dec. 1870 Note.—The Act of 1866, providing for the Periodical Medical Examination of Common Women, came into force on the 1st of October of that year; but owinK to the small number of beds available at the time at the different lock hospitals (vide Return No. 10), and the large number of knowu common women who had not been brought under the operation of the Act (vide Betvirn No. 2), the women were exempted from a periodical medical examination, and only brought up when informed against, or strongly suspected of being diseased. In 1868 the hosi)ita! accommodation was greatly increased, the whole of the common women ordered to be registered, and a periodical medical examination instituted in such districts where it was considered practicable. The registration was however gi adual, and the medical examinations necessarily irregular, in consequence of the large number of women found diseased; a complete registration therefore did not take place until the commencement of 1870, since wliich time the women have, in nearly all eases, undergone the fortnightly periodical meaical examination. WlLLM. C. HaKKIS, 4, Whitehall Place, Assistant Commissionei'. 31st December 1870. (12.) METROPOLITAN POLICE. Contagious Diseases Acts. Return showing the Dates on which the above Acts were first put into operaiion ; as also the Dates on which the Register was first taken into use at each of the under-mentioned Districts. District. Portsmouth Devonport Sheerness Chatham Woolwich Aldershot AVindsor Shorncliffe Colchester Greenwich Winchester Dover- Canterbury Deal - Maidstone Gravesend Southampton Date at which operations commenced. Date at which the Register was first taken into use. 3rd December 1864 - 1st April 1865 9th June 1865 12th „ 1865 14th November 1866 12th April 1867 1st „ 1868 27th July 1868 27th January 1869 - 6th „ 1870 - 6th „ 1870 - 19th „ 1870 - 21st „ 1870 - 5th February 1870 - 15th January 1870 - 17th „ 1870 - 28th May 1870 February 1869. January 1869. February 1869. .January 1869. February 1869. 1869. „ 1869. „ 1869. January 1869. 1870. „ 1870. 1870. 1870. February 1870. „ 1870. „ 1870. May 187C. WlLLM. C. Harris, 4, Whitehall Place, Assistant Commissioner. 31st December 1870.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21365945_0895.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
