Overview

This volume is concerned with Lock Hospitals and Magdalen Asylums in England in the nineteenth century, focusing on rare and difficult-to-access published and/or archival material. The introduction to this volume contextualises sources, addresses the state of the field, discusses language and highlights key themes such as gender, social class and religion. The text is organised around five sections: Lock Hospitals, Magdalen Asylums, medical and reform texts, Acts and legal texts, and newspapers and journal articles. Besides some of the archives for these institutions, the sources also contain archival and primary sources related with ideas about prostitutes and fallen women, legislation, philanthropy work and nineteenth century voluntary associations and organisations. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this volume is of great interest to students and scholars of the history of medicine and the history of gender and sexuality in the long nineteenth century, as well as with the history of institutions to contain and control the sexually “deviant”.

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Author:   Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.960kg
ISBN:  

9781032155227

ISBN 10:   1032155221
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   18 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
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Table of Contents

Volume II: Magdalen Asylums, Lock Hospitals and Lock Asylums in England in the Long Nineteenth Century Dedication Acknowledgements General Introduction: The Asylum in the Long Nineteenth Century Introduction to Volume 2: Magdalen Asylums, Lock Hospitals and Lock Asylums in England in the Long Nineteenth Century Part 1. Lock Hospitals in England and the Dublin Lock Hospital: their functioning and ethos 1. Westmorland Hospital Report and Appendixes. A Report upon Certain Charitable Establishments in the City of Dublin which Receive Aid from Parliament, 1809 2. Patients’ Diet 3. Mrs. Charlotte Ramsden’s Bath Penitentiary and Lock Hospital Report 1818 and Rules and Regulations for General Management 4. 1821 Hospital Diet 5. The Laws of the Lock Hospital and Asylum 1840 (revised 1848) 6. Rules for the Government of the Liverpool Lock Hospital 1854 7. Report of the Lock Hospital, Asylum, and Chapel, 1857 8. The Annual Report of the Manchester and Salford Lock Hospital 1863 and ‘Rules of the Manchester and Salford Lock Hospital’ 9. Copy of Correspondence between the War Office and the Reverend Mr. Dacre, late Chaplain of the Colchester Lock Hospital 10. Report of the Bristol Old Park Lock Hospital For the Treatment of Women Only 1878 and ‘Accounts’ 11. Report of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, Lunatic Asylum and Lock Hospital for the Year 1882, ‘Form of Bequest’ and ‘Form of Recommendation’ 12. Rules and Regulations of the Westmorland Lock Hospital 1885, Revised 1908 13. Report of Inspection of Lock Hospital, Made, without Notice, on July 10th, 1890 William Findlater and L.H. Ormsby 14. Laws of the London Lock Hospital and Asylum (Rescue Home) 1890 Part 2. Lock/Magdalen Asylums in England: their functioning and ethos 15. ‘Inmate’s Commitment’, York Penitentiary 16. York Penitentiary Rules 17. Introductory Report of the Society for the Establishment of a Magdalen Asylum in Liverpool, Instituted October 25, 1809 18. An Account of the Nature and Intention of the Lock Asylum for the Reception of Penitent Female Patients When Discharged from the Lock Hospital, 1824 19. ‘Letters’, An Account of the Lock Hospital 20. The 1840 Report of the Cambridge Female Refuge, ‘Form of legacy/donation’, and ‘Rules’ 21. ‘Asylum Regulations’, Laws of the London Lock Hospital and Asylum1840 (revised 1848) 22. A List of Prices of Needle-work done at the Lock Asylum, c.1844 23. ‘Rules and Regulations’ and Bath Penitentiary Thirtieth Report: With an Alphabetical List of Subscriptions and Donations during the Year 1845 24. The 1854 Report of the Cambridge Female Refuge, ‘Form of Legacy’, ‘Accounts’ and ‘Terms of Washing and Needlework’ 25. The Second Annual Report of the Hull Temporary Home for Fallen Women, 1862 26. The Report for the Year 1863, of the York Penitentiary Society and ‘Rules’ 27. ‘Letters’, The 1865 Report of the Cambridge Female Refuge 28. ‘Letters’, Report of Lock Hospital and Asylum 1870 29. Sixth Report of St. Mary’s Home House of Refuge and Penitentiary, 1871, 30. ‘Young Women in the Asylum’, Report of Lock Hospital and Asylum 1872 31. The Report of the Bristol Female Penitentiary or Magdalen House for its 82nd Year, 1883 32. ‘Asylum Regulations’, Laws of the London Lock Hospital and Asylum (Rescue Home) 1890 33. Report of the Liverpool Female Penitentiary for 1890 and ‘Accounts Liverpool Female Penitentiary Minute Book 34. ‘Standing Rules’, The Thirty-Seventh Report of the Albion Hill Home Brighton, 1891, ‘Letters’, and ‘Laundry and Needlework’ 35. ‘Cases’, The 1895 Report of the Cambridge Female Refuge 36. Statutes of the Newcastle Diocesan House of Mercy, 1897 37. Eightieth Annual Report of the Devon and Exeter Home of Refuge, 1900 38. ‘Letters’ and ‘Form for Legacies’, Fifty-second Annual Report of the Lincoln and Lincolnshire Home, 1901 Part 3. Medical texts on venereal disease and its treatment 39. Observations of the Effects of Various Articles of the Materia Medica in the Cure of Lues Venerea: Illustrated with Cases, 1800 John Pearson 40. A Treatise on Venereal and Syphilitic Diseases; Containing Plain and Practical Directions for the Effectual Cure Of All Degrees of the above complaints, 1819 John Lignum 41. Prostitution Considered in its Moral, Social and Sanitary Aspects in London and other Large Cities and Garrison Towns, 1857 William Acton 42. Record of Cases Treated in the Lock Hospital by Syphilisation, 1867 James R. Lane and George G. Gascoyen 43. Report of Cases under Treatment in the Westmorland Lock Hospital, 1868 John Morgan 44. An Epitome of the Venereal Diseases Being a Succinct Account of the Well Established and More Important Facts Relating to These Diseases, 1868 Alexander Bruce 45. On the Prevention of Contagious Venereal Disease, 1869 James R. Lane 46. A New View of the Origin and Propagation of the Venereal Disease, 1870 J. Morgan 47. The Extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts to Liverpool and other Seaports Practically Considered, 1876 Frederick W. Lowndes 48. ‘On the Administration of Mercury’, Selection from the Works of Abraham Colles Consisting Chiefly of his Practical Observations on the Venereal Disease and the Use of Mercury, 1881 49. Lock Hospitals and Lock Wards in General Hospitals, 1882 Frederick W. Lowndes Part 4. Acts and legal texts: the regulation of prostitution and venereal disease 50. Vagrancy Act 1824, Section III 51. Town Police Clauses Act 1847, Sections XXIX and XXXV 52. ‘The Contagious Diseases Act 1866’, Report of the Committee Appointed to Enquire into the Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Disease, 1868 53. The Contagious Diseases Act of 1866 and its Extension to the Civil Population of the United Kingdom, 1868 J. Brendon Curgenven 54. A critical summary of the evidence before the Royal Commission upon the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1866-1869 55. Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Contagious Diseases Act, 1866 56. On the failure of the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1881 James Stansfeld 57. Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, Parts I and II Part 5. Newspapers and journals: the perception of prostitution, reform and venereal disease 58. Clinical Records of the Lock Hospital Henry Lee 59. The Lock Hospital Dinner 60. The Extension of the Contagious Diseases Act of 1866 to the Civil Population 61. Notes on the Practice of the London Female Lock Hospital James R. Lane 62. The Liverpool Lock Hospital and the Prevalence and Severity of Constitutional Syphilis in Liverpool Frederick W. Lowndes 63. The Contagious Diseases Acts. To the Editor of the Lancet Edgar Beckett Truman 64. Westmorland Lock Government Hospital. Notice to Contractors 65. The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon William T. Stead 66. Lock Hospitals Statistics 67. Hospital Nurse Wanted 68. Westmorland Lock Hospital. Election of Surgeon 69. Westmorland Lock Government Hospital. Election of Resident Medical Officer 70. Westmorland Lock Hospital: Formal Opening of the New Hospital Chapel 71. Bristol Female Penitentiary Annual Meeting 72. The Liverpool Lock Hospital 73. Lock Hospitals and Lock Wards. To the Editors of the Lancet Frederick W. Lowndes 74. The Liverpool Lock Hospital. To the Editors of the Lancet S. J. Ross 75. Bristol Female Penitentiary Bibliography Index

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Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz is a Lecturer in Social History and Cultural Studies at the University of Málaga, Spain. She has specialised in the social and cultural history of deviant women and children in Victorian England, and her research interests have since expanded to contemporary gender and sexual identity issues in Neo-Victorian fiction.

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