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Definition of Lock hospital

Lock hospital
Lock hospital Lock" hos"pi*tal A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. [Eng.]

Meaning of Lock hospital from wikipedia

- A lock hospital was an establishment that specialised in treating ****ually transmitted diseases. They operated in Britain and its colonies and territories...
- The London Lock Hospital was the first voluntary hospital for venereal disease. It was also the most famous and first of the Lock Hospitals which were...
- (Contagious Diseases Acts) and medical discourse and institutions (London Lock Hospital and Asylum). The rights and privileges of Victorian women were limited...
- The Lock Hospital for Women was a hospital in Glasgow for women suffering from venereal disease. The Glasgow lock hospital was established in 1805 at Rottenrow...
- The Westmoreland Lock Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Loc Westmoreland) was a hospital for venereal disease originally located at Donnybrook and later moved...
- Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies...
- The island and the neighbouring Dorre Island were locations for a lock hospital in the early 1900s.: 58–61  It is located at the north-western corner...
- the narrator meets a comrade outside a hospital for ****ually transmitted diseases, known as a lock hospital. The comrade is wrapped up in flannel. When...
- The Bernier and Dorre Island lock hospitals were two lock hospitals set up on Bernier and Dorre Islands from 1908 to 1919. Only Aboriginal people suspected...
- declared to be infected, she would be confined in what was known as a lock hospital until she recovered or her sentence was completed. Men suspected of...