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Syphilis
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Syphilis and the Lock Hospitals
Lock hospitals were set up to treat venereal disease, weren't they? And in London, you would get beaten just as extra punishment. This did nothing to spread the stop of syphilis at all, did it? No, no, no. Syphilis was still rampant. It continued well into the 20th century even during the first and second world wars. You would see these awful posters warning you about the terrible, terrible women who were going to give you sexually transmitted diseases. Because there was a serious problem when we I mean, the Contingis Diseases Act was about soldiers by the time you get to the First World War,. There's a real problem with this, isn't
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