Cape of Good Hope (Classic Reprint): Report of the Select Committee on the Contagious Diseases Act: Report of the Select Committee on the Contagious Diseases ACT (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Act, Select Committee On Contagious Diseases

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ISBN 10: 1330930517 ISBN 13: 9781330930519

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Cape of Good Hope

F) That it deters many prostitutes from voluntary examination because they object to being registered as such, owing to the difficulty of getting their names removed from the list and the stigma attached thereto.

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Excerpt from Cape of Good Hope: Report of the Select Committee on the Contagious Diseases Act

F) That it deters many prostitutes from voluntary examination because they object to being registered as such, owing to the difficulty of getting their names removed from the list and the stigma attached thereto.

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Excerpt from Cape of Good Hope: Report of the Select Committee on the Contagious Diseases Act

Select Committee appointed by order of the house of assembly, dated the 26th June, 1906, to consider and report on the subject of the repeal of certain parts of the Contagious Diseases Act. and also on the question of raising the age of consent: the committee to have power to take evidence and call for papers and to consist of Messrs. Theron. Anderson, Hellier, T. Searle, Wood, Dr. Hewat and Dr. De Jager.

Your Committee. having taken evidence and having considered the matter referred to them, beg to report as follows: -

(1) Petitioners for the repeal of the first part of the Contagious Disease Act advance the following against the act: -

(a) The degrading and humiliating effect upon women examined under the provisions of this act.

(b) That the act recognises and therefore legalises prostitution.

(c) That by giving a false sense of security in the minds of men, it actually encourages the vicious.

(d) That the two sexes are unequally dealt with.

(e) It does not encourage prostitutes to reform.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330930517
• ISBN 13: 9781330930519
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
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