Chatham Scandal: A history of Medway's prostitution in the late 19th century - Hardcover

Joyce, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1901625044 ISBN 13: 9781901625042

Publisher: Baggins Book Bazaar Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Chatham Scandal: A history of Medway's prostitution in the late 19th century

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A history of prostitution in Victorian Chatham.
This book examines the lives of the prostitutes and brothel-keepers who worked in the garrison town of Chatham in Kent during the reign of Queen Victoria. It was at this time that Britain experimented with government supervision of prostitution through the Contagious Diseases Acts, and the area around Chatham was one of the districts in which the Acts were applied. Enforced by Metropolitan policemen in plain clothes, the Acts forced women the police suspected of being prostitutes to undergo medical examination for venereal disease. If they were found to require treatment, the women could be forcibly detained in hospital for up to nine months. The Chatham Scandal looks at the fate of the girls who found themselves victims of the Acts. It also attempts to discover their backgrounds and the way they lived their precarious lives. The careers of several individual prostitutes are examined in detail, as are case-studies of the public-houses and private residences in which they conducted their business

Edition details

• Publisher: Baggins Book Bazaar Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1901625044
• ISBN 13: 9781901625042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 293