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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.
Venereal Disease Hospitals and the Urban Poor: London's "Foul Wards," ... by Howell, Philip / Journal of Social History
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