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Page vi
... fact that while there are indeed grave dangers in indiscriminate discussion , no progress can be made without a frank and full treatment of the subject and a dissemination not alone of recent medical knowledge , but also of the ...
... fact that while there are indeed grave dangers in indiscriminate discussion , no progress can be made without a frank and full treatment of the subject and a dissemination not alone of recent medical knowledge , but also of the ...
Page ix
... facts , and to enable them to adopt such corrective measures as may be needed . ( 3 ) To promote such legislation as shall render it less difficult to reach offenders , and as shall put an end to the shifting and division of respon ...
... facts , and to enable them to adopt such corrective measures as may be needed . ( 3 ) To promote such legislation as shall render it less difficult to reach offenders , and as shall put an end to the shifting and division of respon ...
Page x
... facts collected by the Committee , it became possible to take measures for the eradi- cation of prostitution from the tenement houses . The overthrow of the control of the municipal administration by Tammany Hall and the suc- cess of ...
... facts collected by the Committee , it became possible to take measures for the eradi- cation of prostitution from the tenement houses . The overthrow of the control of the municipal administration by Tammany Hall and the suc- cess of ...
Page xvi
... facts of large ones , 104 - Norwegian statistics , 105- Italian regulations , 107 - Dorpat , 108 - St . Louis , 109 ... fact of prostitution , 117 - Control of prostitution compared with measures for checking contagious diseases , 117 ...
... facts of large ones , 104 - Norwegian statistics , 105- Italian regulations , 107 - Dorpat , 108 - St . Louis , 109 ... fact of prostitution , 117 - Control of prostitution compared with measures for checking contagious diseases , 117 ...
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... fact that prostitution is practically universal has impressed itself strongly upon the numerous writers who have dealt with the subject . The inference has frequently been drawn that all efforts to suppress or restrict vice must be vain ...
... fact that prostitution is practically universal has impressed itself strongly upon the numerous writers who have dealt with the subject . The inference has frequently been drawn that all efforts to suppress or restrict vice must be vain ...
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