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BRITAIN Contagious Diseases Act Flashcards

1
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When was the Crimean War?

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1853-56

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When did the health of the British army become a national concern?

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Crimean War

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What established the link between the health of soldiers and venereal disease?

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1857 Royal Commission on the Health of the Army

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When were the frequent medical checks on soldiers abandoned because of humiliation?

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1859

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How many army hospital admissions were for venereal infections in 1860?

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37%

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What did the government establish in response to the 1857 Royal Commission?

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1862 committee

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Who was the central advocate of the 1862 committee?

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Florence Nightingale

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What did the 1862 committee propose?

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Penalties for concealing, but not contracting, venereal diseases; lock hospitals

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Who suggested that Britain’s prostitutes should be moderated like the French?

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Sir John Liddell, a member of the 1862 committee

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Who raised objections to the 1862 committee’s suggestions?

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William Gladstone

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Who was hereditary syphilis a big killer for?

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Children under 12 months

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What did syphilis cause if left long enough?

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Blindness; deafness; insanity

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What was prostitution regarded quietly by many as?

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Social necessity

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What specified that a man could divorce a woman on grounds of adultery?

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Matrimonial Causes Act 1857

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What did a woman have to prove, along with adultery, in order to divorce a man?

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Cruelty; desertion

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John William Acton (1813-75)

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London surgeon of high reputation, specialising in the urinary and genital organs; did not consider prostitution to be a social evil but was concerned that the diseases it spread posed a considerable social problem

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17
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When did Acton publish his book?

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1857

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What did Acton make clear in his book?

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Prostitution was a social necessity; danger of venereal diseases; need for state intervention

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When did Acton declare that charity and religion had failed to prevent prostitution and a scientific government regulation was called for?

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1860

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When were there many organisations set up for the reform and salvation of prostitutes?

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1850s

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When was the first Contagious Diseases Act passed?

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1864

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Contagious Diseases Act 1864

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Gave police within ports and garrison towns the power to arrest prostitutes for medical examination- if a woman was found to be diseased, she could be detained in a lock hospital until cured

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What would happen if a woman failed to submit to examination, according to the CDA 1864?

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Imprisonment

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When was the second Contagious Diseases Act passed?

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1866

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Contagious Diseases Act 1866

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Compulsory examinations introduced for prostitutes once every three months; examinations were to be performed on all suspected prostitutes within ten miles of a suspected port or garrison town

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When was the third Contagious Diseases Act passed?

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1869

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Contagious Diseases Act 1869

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This regulation extended to all garrison towns and allowed prostitutes to be held for five days before examination without trial; made it legal for prostitutes to be detained in a lock hospital for up to a year and subjected to fortnightly inspections

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28
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How many protected districts did the CDA 1869 establish across the country?

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18

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29
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Who defended the CDAs?

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Medical authorities like Acton and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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How did the CDAs provide a stark lesson to women of all social ranks?

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A parliament of men was more than capable of passing laws degrading to women and beneficial only to men

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What found considerable evidence that the CDAs had improved conditions for prostitutes in protected areas?

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1871 Royal Commission

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Why did the CDAs increase the working life of women beyond the customary 3-4 years?

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Frequent checks and timely treatment- legislation appeared to preserve their health and allow them to remain in their business considerably longer

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33
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What became a prized possession for prostitutes after the CDAs?

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Health certificates

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34
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What did the 1871 Royal Commission find was the most popular aspect of the CDAs?

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Reduced occurrence of scabies

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How could prostitutes get their names removed from the registers?

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If they married/entered full-time employment

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How did the CDAs affect the hospital admission rates for syphilis?

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In protected areas, 37/1,000 soldiers were hospitalised with the disease, compared to 194/1,000 soldiers in unprotected areas

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What has to be remembered about the 1871 Royal Commission?

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They only interviewed certain types of witness- bulk of evidence collected came from Anglican ministers, doctors and military officers

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What did some of the new laws make harder for prostitutes?

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Access to reform institutions for those who wanted help to leave their profession

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Which reform institution refused to care for women from government hospitals as it was opposed to the Acts?

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Rescue of Women and Children

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40
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How did the police feel about the CDAs?

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Regulation of prostitution was an unnecessary distraction from preventing and detecting more serious crimes

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41
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What was another worry about official intervention and prostitutes?

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Damaged relations between prostitutes and their local communities

42
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Who argued that the impact of the CDAs on health was limited, as there were no checks on men within the armed forces?

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Judith Walkowitz in 1980

43
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What was the prevention of venereal disease also hampered by?

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Lack of medical knowledge around the subject

44
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Which VD was virtually untreatable?

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Syphilis

45
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What raised the public concern about the legislation that would eventually develop into a movement for its repeal?

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Suggestion that they may be enforced nationally

46
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Who reported in 1867 that further levels of state intervention would be needed to tackle the problem?

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Harveian Society of London

47
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Who was involved in the campaign to extend the Acts?

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Church of England clergymen; politically liberal doctors

48
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Which medical journal campaigned fiercely for the extension of the Acts?

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‘The Lancet’

49
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When did opposition to the Acts increase?

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1868-69

50
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Which notorious instrument would doctors use to carry out the medical checks?

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Speculum

51
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Who did Elizabeth Wolstenholme invite to lead a campaign against the Acts?

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Josephine Butler

52
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When did Wolstenholme invite a friend to lead a campaign against the Acts?

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October 1869

53
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When was a protest signed against the Acts and the formation of the Ladies’ National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts (LNA)?

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31 December 1869

54
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How many women were involved in the formation of the LNA?

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Over 120

55
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Who were some of the women involved in the formation of the LNA?

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Josephine Butler; Elizabeth Wolstenholme; Florence Nightingale; Lydia Becker; Harriet Martineau

56
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What did the number of signatures on the LNA petition quickly increase to?

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Over 2,000

57
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How many allegations did the LNA make against the CDAs?

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8

58
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What did the LNA include many of?

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Quakers; Unitarians

59
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When was the Social Science Association founded?

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1857

60
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What did the Social Science Association promote?

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Public health; penal reform; industrial relations; female education

61
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Who was a member of the Social Science Association in the 1860s?

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Elizabeth Wolstenholme

62
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Why could Wolstenholme not lead the LNA?

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Too radical

63
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Why did Wolstenholme agree to marry when she became pregnant?

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To avoid damaging the campaign against the CDAs

64
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Why didn’t Wolstenholme choose Nightingale or Martineau to lead the LNA?

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Both were unmarried and childless

65
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Who did Wolstenholme partner with in 1875?

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Ben Elmy

66
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Why was Butler a strong choice for leadership of the LNA?

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Charismatic; strong-willed; fashionable; generally regarded to be beautiful; devout Christian

67
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Why did Butler oppose the CDAs?

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Appeared to be legalising prostitution and were therefore morally abhorrent

68
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Why can Butler be viewed as a problematic leader?

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Uncompromising

69
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What did Butler completely block that delayed the repeal of the CDAs?

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John Stuart Mill’s proposal at the 1871 Royal Commission that the existing regulation be replaced by a system of voluntary examinations in private clinics

70
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What was James Stansfeld involved with before he joined the LNA’s campaign?

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Worked in Gladstone’s cabinet until the Liberal election defeat in 1874

71
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What did Stansfeld do for the LNA?

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Reshaped the movement into a more effective political pressure group

72
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What did Stansfeld encourage the formation of?

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National Medical Association in 1875

73
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When did the Conservative government agree to establish a committee of inquiry into the Acts?

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1879

74
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When did the Liberals return to power?

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1880

75
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When did the inquiry into the Acts continue to gather information until?

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1882

76
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Who did Stansfeld’s role in the LNA cause some tension with?

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Middle-class women- they felt that men were too influential within the movement

77
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Who did the middle-class women in the LNA prefer to make alliances with?

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Working-class men, who were generally easier to manage

78
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When did Stansfeld push through the final repeal of the Acts?

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1886

79
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Which different tactics did the LNA use?

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Petitioning; interfering in elections; drawing attention to women mistaken for prostitutes; co-operation with prostitutes

80
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What was a notable success for the LNA in interfering with elections?

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1870 candidacy of Henry Storks for Newark- a new Liberal candidate was elected who opposed the Acts

81
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Why was the Storks triumph short-lived for the LNA?

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He stood again in 1870 for Colchester- when protesters entered their own pro-repeal candidate, it split the Liberal vote and handed the Conservatives victory

82
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Henry Storks

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Governor of Malta; enforced the CDAs rigorously across the island

83
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What did Storks do in response to the LNA’s first attack on him?

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Withdrew his candidacy on the day of the election

84
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What was the problem with the LNA interfering with elections?

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Protestors were almost entirely dependent on Liberal candidates and were unable to exert influence over Conservative MPs

85
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Who won the 1874 general election?

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Benjamin Disraeli’s Conservative Party

86
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What did the LNA lose as a result of the 1874 general election?

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Liberal MPs who were sympathetic to its cause

87
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What is the most dramatic example of the LNA drawing attention to women who had been incorrectly identified as prostitutes?

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Mrs Percy in Aldershot 1875; drowned herself while police were investigating her

88
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What did the cases of women being mistakenly identified as prostitutes do?

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Fuelled public fear that the CDAs risked the dignity of innocent women

89
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What is one noticeable failure of the LNA in regards to the CDAs?

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Its inability to mobilise working-class women against the Acts

90
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When did it become clear that the LNA’s campaign had failed to sway public opinion in subjected ports and towns?

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1882

91
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Where did campaigners succeed in persuading prostitutes to resist the legal requirements of the Acts in the early 1870s?

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Plymouth and Southampton

92
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What was the ‘Siege of Devonport’?

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Campaigners worked with prostitutes in resisting medical examinations; provided legal and financial support throughout trials

93
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When did the ‘Siege of Devonport’ run out of steam?

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1871

94
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When did the prostitutes in Devonport become compliant with the Acts?

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1872

95
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What was an early sign that parliament took the demands of protesters seriously?

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1871 Royal Commission into the effects of the legislation

96
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When were the Contagious Diseases Acts suspended?

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1883

97
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What was the most successful tactic of the LNA?

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Convincing large elements of society that the CDAs were immoral

98
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What did Butler and her followers do while the HoC discussed the suspending of the Acts?

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Held continous prayers next to parliament throughout the night

99
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Why was the medical profession less enthusiastic about the continuation of the Acts?

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New understandings of the long-term consequences of gonorrhea and syphilis persuaded many that regulation was no longer a viable option

100
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What are some examples of the long-term health problems caused by VD?

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Infertility; pelvic ailments

101
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What did the medical profession move to promote rather than regulation?

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Chastity; precaution

102
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What did the CDAs become the ultimate embodiment of?

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Sexual injustice allowed by a political system that excluded women

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