All suspected and known public women were required to enter the police inspection house through a concealed rear passage at a i once inside, they had to strip naked and form a line. Elizabeth can only have been subjected to this routine a handful of times before it was discovered that she was presenting the symptoms of syphilis. She was immediately admitted to the cahuset or cure house, the local venereal disease hospital. These treatment centres, also known as lock hospitals, were designed for poor people. A stay here carried profound stigma, and this was imparted aterrent as well.

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