Remarks on the recent report of the Royal Commission on the Contagious Diseases Act and its application to the voluntary hospital system / by John Morgan.

  • Morgan, John, 1829-1876.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Remarks on the recent report of the Royal Commission on the Contagious Diseases Act and its application to the voluntary hospital system / by John Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Having experience of the voluntary system, as applied to such an Hospital, I must believe that the intermediate course of allowing a diseased female to enter voluntarily, but then retaining her by law, if necessary, would ultimately defeat itself; and if the dealing with the question by the iron grasp of authority, is not thought desirable, or be unpracticable, better far, by offering easy inducement in the way of admission—by superior treatment ; by the esta- blishment of Sanataria, with co-operative assistance on the part of those benefited, and assisted by rewards; facilitate the Voluntary: treatment of these virulent poison-bearers. The question is one of much difficulty in its medical aspect, without entering on the moral, and while the line of demarcation between the avowedly unvirtuous and the virtuous, must ever be drawn in a line of fire ; yet some aid on a large and practical scale, should be afforded to such as might, under the heaven-sent and awakening influence of repentance, be anxious to rescue themselves from a life they too late find, to be one of degradation and infamy.