The "Contagious diseases acts", what are they? / issued by the Scottish National Association for the Abolition of the State Regulation of Vice and for the Promotion of Social Purity.

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[between 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: The "Contagious diseases acts", what are they? / issued by the Scottish National Association for the Abolition of the State Regulation of Vice and for the Promotion of Social Purity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACTS, l/l^f^/IT ARE THEY? ^!^'^is\rz t;s.rMcTS^ r- ^ now existing Act was read the first ti^L ^T^ ^^=^r<=^i ^6th 1866 the Select Committee, all the membS of which te -fwn^ ''^^'''^ ed a lation. On the 26th of April the BiTl w., Ti ^^PPo^'ters of this leHa! morning, and, when a faint effoi^ was madrfTr'''^ °'<^l°<=k in the measure, the attempt was at once wLri^ most important was a Bill not to be pubHcly dTscussecP' w!, ^^''''Suhr gi-ound, that th * ckuse, wUch would Lve afforded some sSitlnf^'y *° introduce a the irresponsible powers of the spy police L^^hl T ^^^^^ ^buse of cor^oborl-v?/.-^ information shaU^be made shaft ifter Cr,/' ^'-^ P-sed tirHon^e of ?n' Commons a 7ti-Te;-S;^£^;LTe^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^-^ infer their object a^nd princ^L S2'd: T «° *hat one is left to yet these Acts deal wi'th ^/^''foS,^licentiousness of ^men and wome^ was the chief advnP«+o 7,f . openly avowed. The l itP s/, h ^^^'^ '=onse- the chief cause of its i ' (^^ssion th.at the celibate com ^'^^l «uch Acts, but a very sfrn?^ '^morality, is no justification fnA,^ with indignation ami thn A° ^'^^ «onti4ry why tlL «h *f,«^^«tence of maldng provision fo? tbp w- ™^. '° organized as to ' ■'^^ ^'^ '''^^''^^'i too evident that ih^;,. „ ^ ■^''^^ orer the entJvw n j exists, having flespotic power. If a noWm P''» «-lothes „f° ^^9* '866, sec. =).