Report of the : for the year ending November 14, 1871.

  • Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Report of the : for the year ending November 14, 1871. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    directed, next session, to the subject with which the petitions deal. As soon as it was made known, in the autumn of 1870, that a Koyal Commission was in course of being appointed, your Committee addressed a memorial to the Prime Minister, protesting against this step on the part of Government, and respectfully requesting him to receive a deputation from your Association. Mr. Gladstone declined to receive a deputation, on the ground that through the appointment of a Commission all responsibility in the matter had passed out of his hands. A second memorial was addressed to Mr. Gladstone by your Committee, in May 1871, urging him not to suffer legislation to be postponed until another session, or to allow the protracted enquiry, and the long delay in the publication of the report of his Commission, to be used as an excuse for such postponement. To this memorial an acknowledgment of receipt was the only reply. A third memorial was presented to Mr. Gladstone by your Committee in June, as soon as the Keport of the Commission was laid on the table of the House. In this memorial Mr. Gladstone was reminded of the responsibility which now lay upon him, through the fact that the Keport had recommended the abandonment of the compulsory examinations, on the ground that the practice is an outrage on public decency. A formal acknowledgment of the receipt of this third memorial was the only reply received by your Committee. Seeing