Contagious Diseases Prevention Bill 1872 (`Bruce's Bill')

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 106 3HJW/F/03
  • Dates of Creation
      1872-1900
  • Physical Description
      1 folder

Scope and Content

Note. These papers were not found as part of an original file, but were artificially grouped together under this subject heading. Includes:

* Bill, 1872 - with a few pencilled comments.

* Mrs J Butler, A Letter on the Subject of Mr Bruce's Bill. Addressed to the Repealers of the Contagious Diseases Acts, Mar 12th 1872 (Marked `2' in blue pencil. `Copy made in 1900.' Another copy in portfolio marked, `British Committee col xiv (No.58) ').

* J. Birkbeck Nevins, To the Right Honourable RA Cross, MP (Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department), Enquiry into the Condition of Prostitution and the alleged Influence of the Contagious Diseases Acts. (Mar 1876, 11pp).

* Letter addressed to Members of the House of Commons, 1886 (National Medical Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, 24pp, indexed)