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| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene (AMSH) and the Ministry of Health regarding the work of AMSH and NUWT support for their aims. Subjects covered include prostitution, kerb crawling, traffic in women and children, venereal diseases, equality for women and sexual offences against children.
The correspondence covers:
Detailed reports from AMSH outlining their opposition to the 'Street Offences Bill'
Details of various conferences organised by AMSH
Request from A. Muriel Pierotti that correspondence to her from AMSH is addressed directly to her private address (due to decision to disband the NUWT), 1959
Letters from the AMSH calling for support in opposition to the 'Street Offences Bill', 1959
NUWT affiliation to the AMSH (A. Muriel Pierotti was also a personal member of AMSH)
NUWT requests for AMSH literature and publications
Calls for the restoration of the legal requirement of confidential treatment of venereal diseases
Arrangements for meetings and events organised by AMSH
Appeals for funds from AMSH
Newsletters from AMSH detailing their current campaigns, any events, appeals for funds and other relevant information
Imposition of laws in Germany whereby doctors were obliged to inform on women with venereal diseases, and women who had been found to be having relations with occupying forces
Events to celebrate the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act, 1886
Russian women refugees in the Far East
Handbills advertising meetings and conferences organised by AMSH
Agendas for meetings of AMSH, 1948, 1951, 1955 and 1958
Minutes of meetings of the British National Committee for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children, 1938
Summary of accounts and reports for AMSH, 1946 - 1948 and 1957
Memorial leaflet for a service for Helen Wilson, one-time President of AMSH
Memorial leaflet for a service for Alison Neilans, one-time General Secretary of AMSH
Calls for reform of the solicitation laws
Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1950 and the work of Barbara Castle (MP) to get this introduced in the House of Commons
Copy of a letter sent to The Times newspaper - an appeal for funds for AMSH on the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Josephine Butler
Appeals from, and information on, the Josephine Butler Centenary Committee, 1928
Campaign to raise £40,000 for a National Memorial to Josephine Butler
Morality in war-time
Information on the Alison Neilans Memorial Lectureship Trust
Publications and reports from AMSH including:
'Evidence for the Departmental Committee of Enquiry' regarding prostitution
'A survey of the laws concerning prostitution'
Memorandum on (draft) Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill
'A German ordinance and a British regulation'
'Are moral standard necessary?', Alison Neilans
'The Solicitation Laws - the Alison Neilans Memorial Lecture', by Mrs Franklin Lefroy, 1948
'The Police and the Prostitute - the Alison Neilans Memorial Lecture', by C.R. Hewitt, 1951
'The case against the report of the Street Offences Committee'
'Traffic in women - memorandum on the draft protocol on traffic in women of full age'
'Some arguments against the compulsory repatriation of prostitutes'
'Tolerated brothels within the British Empire', 1927
'Report of the Special Body of Experts on Traffic in Women and Children', League of Nations, 1927
'Report of the Street Offences Committee', Government publication, 1928
'Memorandum on Prohibition of Foreign Women in Tolerated Houses', 1922
'An injustice to be remedied - the Law and the 'Prostitute'', 1950
'Revue Abolitionniste', the journal of the International Abolitionist Federation - issues from September - October 1949, November - Decemeber 1949 and May - June 1954
'Responsibility versus compulsion - statement by the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene on the proposals for combating venereal disease made by the World Health Orgnisation', 1949
Press cuttings regarding:
The revoke, by the Ministry of Health, of the Public Health (Venereal Diseases) Regulations of 1916 which ensure patient confidentiality |