Report on the lock-hospitals, British Burma, for the year 1881

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Report on the lock-hospitals, British Burma, for the year 1881
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Dates / events:	1881 [Date/event depicted]
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Report on lock hospitals in British Burma
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Description	Reports cover 1873-1886. Describes conditions, staffing and expenditure of lock hospitals. Prostitute statistics show registration, attendance and punishment. Tables list instances of venereal disease (syphilis, gonorrhoea) in women and troops. Comments by military staff appraise the working of the lock hospital system. Library lacks 1874 and 1876.
Shelfmark	IP/16/HG.4
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Periodicals
Places:	Asia > Myanmar (nation) [Place depicted] Asia > Myanmar > Yangon division > Rangoon (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Hospitals Prostitutes Prostitution Sick persons Sexually transmitted diseases Syphilis Gonorrhea
Person / organisation:	India. Superintendent of Government Printing [Publisher]
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Lock hospitals
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Description	5 titles dating from 1873 to 1891. Describes the treatment and control of venereal disease applied to prostitutes and soldiers. This followed the Indian Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864 and 1868. Statistics and candid reports illustrate the civil and military lock hospital system.

Subject / content:	Armies Hospitals Military personnel Military life Health care
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Medicine - Institutions
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Description	The Institutions collection consists of 106 volumes from British India, dating from the 1860's to the 1940's. Divided into reports on medical institutions, army health, and lock hospitals. Education of indigenous medical students and maintenance of troop health shown in annual reports and statistical tables.

Places:	Asia > India (nation) [Place created]
Subject / content:	Disease Histories Medicine Institutions Research
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India Papers
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Description	The India Papers collection contains publications of the central (Imperial) Government and many Indian states. Most states came under British rule. Much of the collection dates from between the post-Mutiny re-organisation of the Indian Government and Indian Independence in 1947. Some items published in London by John Murray.
Shelfmark	India Papers

Places:	Asia > Myanmar (nation) [Place in text] Asia > Pakistan (nation) [Place in text] Asia > India (nation) [Place in text]
Subject / content:	Indian (South Asian)
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