Impact of Contagious Diseases Acts

Impact of the CDAs 

Regulated Prostitution 

• Many women travelled voluntarily to lock hospitals for checks, shows they did work well 
• Scabies also dropped radically, helping the health of prostitues 
• Amount of soldies with STDs also dropped, only 37 out of 1,000 had disease in protected ares compared to 194 out of 1000 in unprotected areas 
• However government didnt actually ask prostitutes their opinion, only doctors and clergymen, so evidence could be unreliable 
• Also identification of prostitues flawed, law said any woman unaccompanied by a man was a prostitute, led to many cases of mistaken identity 

Medical Examinations and The Speculum 

• Doctors would use a speculum, very…