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Lock hospital

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Lock´ hos´pi`tal
n.1.A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases.


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Siena's careful narrative demonstrates how this institutional response began with the foul wards of the Royal Hospitals, expanded with the workhouses' assumption of responsibility for the afflicted poor, culminating with the opening of the London Lock Hospital in 1740.
Hunter said research has shown that irrational, unexamined racial biases were demonstrated by doctors, politicians and bureaucrats who designed the Lock hospitals and lazerets (segregated hospitals) established to house Aboriginal people in Australia who were thought -- wrongly -- to be responsible for outbreaks of sexually transmitted diseases.
 
 
 
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