INDEX

Acton, Dr William, 2, 3, 18, 28, 34, 37, 75

abolition see repeal
age profile
of prostitute women, 23, 30, 35, 446, 50
agency
womens, 4, 13, 19, 389,434, 4850,
678, 152, 160, 162
agriculture, 21, 26
see also hop-growing
alcohol, 12, 535, 123
see also drunkenness
Aldershot, 36, 160
Anniss, Inspector Silas, 136
arrest, 12, 34, 53, 80, 82, 89, 93, 99100,
111, 11516, 11821, 125, 12832,
140
see also disorderly behaviour; drunkenness; soliciting; theft
Association for Promoting the Extension of
the Contagious Diseases Act, 6
assault, 27, 36, 51, 557, 59, 61, 67, 70, 82,
84
see also violence
assertiveness, 2, 51
Asylum, Kent County, 356, 42, 54

Blue Town, Sheppey, 80, 92, 94, 96,1001,

123, 152
Anchor and Hope, 923
Fountain Passage, 43
Mitre, 92
High Street, 96, 1001, 152
West Street, 80, 923
bonnets, 1, 57, 59, 66
brothels, 56, 13, 31, 33, 403, 467, 76,
86, 902, 98101, 110, 133, 151,
1567
brothel-keeping, convictions for, 39, 46,
76, 97, 1278
public houses run as, 39, 401, 118
Buckland Union Workhouse, 26
Butler, Josephine, 8, 9, 18, 138, 149, 1534,
158

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Baker, Rev. Hugh, 35, 52, 138

Barming Heath Asylum see Asylum, Kent
County
Baxendale, James, 35, 53
begging, 27, 63, 11314, 119
Berry, Supt George, 82
borough police forces, 99, 1068, 135, 82,
87, 99, 106
see also Dover; Folkestone; Gravesend;
Maidstone

Canterbury, 1, 7, 4950, 62, 106, 108,

11617, 124, 130, 1423
Borough Police Force, 108
CD Acts in, 147, 151, 1538
scale of prostitution in, 1245
St Augustines Gaol, 130
Capon, Inspector William, 87, 136
CD Acts
1864, 56, 104, 106, 141
1866, 6
1869, 68, 1413, 155
abolition campaign see repeal
certificate of infection free status, 143,
1545
imprisonment, 14450
legal representation, 136, 151, 157

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medical examination, 6, 25, 30, 35,

52, 1335, 137, 13947, 149, 151,
1536, 15960
prosecutions for non-compliance, 1467,
1501, 15660
public meetings, in connection with, 67
public trials, 152
registration, 6, 45, 124, 136, 138, 140,
142, 150, 1535, 158160
repeal campaign see repeal
voluntary submission form, 6, 135, 140,
146, 149, 151, 1567
see also statistics
census, 20, 23, 25, 43, 49, 75, 83, 8990,
924, 98, 139
charity, 34, 19, 68
Chatham, 49
Admiral Rodney, 25
and Sheerness Stipendiary Magistrates
Act, 111, 125, 130
Board of Health, 53
Devonshire Arms, 118
Court Leet, 112
Earl of Cardigan, 40
Golden Cross, 133, 136
House of Refuge, 12, 6
Lock Hospital, 6, 25, 27, 30, 44, 52, 134,
141, 1435
Lord Nelson, 31, 92
Military Road, 57
Princess Royal, 3940, 42, 44
policing in, 106, 109
St Bartholemews Hospital, 52
scale of prostitution in, 124
Chatham News, 1, 6, 56, 62, 106, 109, 125,
144
Chatham Observer, 1389
children, 37, 47, 56
cholera, 83
Clewer Penitentiary, 154
clientele, prostitutes, 12, 32, 42, 46, 55, 91,
126, 129, 161
class background of, 28
theft from see theft
procurement of, 11, 54, 86, 88
Cobden, Richard, 63
cohabitation, 32, 40, 43, 46, 56
Colchester, 154

common prostitute, 11, 256, 30, 32, 35,

41, 645, 71, 80, 107, 114, 116, 119,
123, 1267, 151
Congregational see religion
consumer culture, 70
Conservative Party, 63
contagion, discourses relating to, 689
Contagious Diseases Acts see CD Acts
County and Borough Police Act 1856, 10,
108
Craigen, Jessie, 159
crinoline, 71, 85
Croll, Andy, 74
custodial sentences, 5,25, 32, 36, 50, 56, 72,
93, 113, 1256, 129
see also CD Acts, imprisonment
Daily News, 8, 137
Daunton, Martin, 92
Deal, 7, 106, 156
death, early, of women in prostitution, 23,
12, 28, 334, 68
decorum, public expectations of, 115, 117
deviance, 647
Devonport see Plymouth
disorderly behaviour, 10, 256, 47, 50, 59,
82, 85, 87, 91, 11417, 120, 1239,
152
see also drunk and disorderly
Ditchburn, Henry, 1035, 109, 117
doctors see medical profession
Dodd, William, 4
domestic service, 223, 49
double deviance, 64
Dover
Bee Hive PH, Dover, 73, 87
Borough Police Force, 46, 87, 94, 115
Duke of York, 68
General Purposes Committee, 8
historic development of, 78
Home for Young Women, 18, 49
Limekiln Street, 934
Little Phoenix, 94
Lord Warden, 94
Marine Arms, 46
Old Post Office, 87
Oxenden Street, 93
Round Tower Street, 94

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Snargate Street, 73, 78, 85, 8790, 95
social life in, 95
Town Council, 8, 110
Union Workhouse, 26
Wellington Arcade, 87, 95
Dover Express, 9, 62, 87, 108
dress
codes of, 2, 65
see also fashion
dressmaking, 23, 25, 28, 34, 94
see also needle trades
drunk and disorderly, charges of, 22, 25,
37, 47, 69, 82, 867, 912, 99100,
1223, 1256
drunkenness, 1, 5, 17, 24, 27, 36, 42, 45, 50,
51, 534, 57, 59, 61, 635, 712, 74,
80, 90, 98, 109
middle-class, 117
of police officers, 1067
earning power, womens, 213, 50
economies, local, 18, 21, 24, 76, 78
Education Act 1870, 62
Empire, 5, 161
employment, opportunities for women, 22
Emsley, Clive, 104, 115
Englander, David, 23
euphemisms, used for prostitute, 65, 67, 84

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Fraser, Mr, 148, 157

gambling, 11516
genital examination see CD Acts
gonorrhoea see venereal disease
Gravesend
Back Garden Row, 32, 84
barracks, 78, 98
Bath Street, 30, 83
Black Horse, Gravesend, 56
Borough Police Force, 37, 42, 82, 99,
115, 120
Bull Yard, 37
Clarence Street, 47, 73, 78, 97100
Eden Place, 30
Harmer Street, 94, 122, 131
High Street, 37, 73, 78, 80, 83, 856,
8992
historical development of, 76
India Arms, 57, 84, 128
New Falcon Hotel, 82
New Inn, 33
Peppercroft Street, 54, 97100
Poor Law Guardians, 17, 26
Privateer, 97
Pump Alley, 834, 98
Russell Arms, 57
St Johns Place, 50
social life in, 94
Swan Inn, 128
Swan Yard, 37
Three Tun Yard, 31, 42, 901, 94
Town Council, 83, 85
Union Workhouse, 17, 246, 37, 47, 50
West Street, 32, 47, 50, 823, 85
White Hart Tap, 27, 57, 73, 867
Gravesend Reporter, 910, 33, 5960, 623,
71, 84, 108, 159
Greenwich, 7, 36, 41, 534, 106, 142
Womens Refuge, 356, 53
Greg, W. R., 3, 4, 69, 75
Guest, Sarah, 154, 158
William, 94, 158
Gunn, Simon, 61, 745, 83, 88

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fallen woman, stereotype, 2, 4, 11, 1819,

68, 94, 137, 154
family wage, 21
fashion, 5960, 6671
feathers, wearing of, 701
feminism, 9, 13, 19, 161
fights, 567
see also assault
fines, 10, 22, 39, 56, 107, 11213, 11617,
1212, 128
see also punishment
Finnegan, Frances, 34
floriography, 71
folk devils, 67
Folkestone, 1, 5, 46, 1068, 150
Borough Police Force, 106
Fowler, Roger, 69
frail sisterhood, as euphemism for prostitute, 11, 26, 57, 60, 68, 88

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Hallett, Inspector Charles, 139, 147

hard labour, 36, 42, 47, 51, 57, 11114,
11617, 119, 1226, 1301, 147,
14950
hawking, 27, 42, 83, 912
Hallet, PI Charles, 139, 147
Harris, Captain William, 140
Hart, Mary Ann, 137
Heritage, Ann, 143, 151, 154, 1567
Heritage, Rev. A. W., 156, 158
heterogeneity, of women in prostitution, 19
hop-growing, 21
hospital see Lock Hospital
see also venereal disease
hotels, 82
houses of ill repute, 40
see also brothels
Howell, Philip, 7
Hyde, Caroline, 18
identity, 75
immorality
perceptions of, 1, 10, 15, 656, 71, 75, 86
imprisonment, 6, 10, 17, 2930, 50, 91, 103,
11114, 11617, 119, 1213, 126,
12930
attitudes towards, 131
for offences under CD Acts, 137,
14550, 1567
see also custodial sentences
indecency, charges of, 2, 24, 50, 66, 71, 87,
91, 98, 107, 11215, 1201, 123, 125
indoor relief, 23, 52
see also workhouses
infection see venereal disease
Inspectors of Nuisances, 110
integration
community, 37, 72, 90, 92, 94
of police officers, 139
residential, 86
Ireland, 19, 160

other duties of, 110

see also stipendiary magistrates
juveniles
criminality amongst, 30, 50
in prostitution, 40, 446
Kent County Constabulary, 106, 108, 139
Kentish Gazette, 89, 62, 157
Krause, William, 45, 143, 153, 155
Ladies National Association for the Repeal
of the Contagious Diseases Acts
(LNA), 8, 136, 141, 154, 156, 159
Lancet, 2, 153
language, obscene, 1, 26, 91, 11517, 1225
prosecutions for, 5, 17, 47, 57, 635, 71,
82, 111, 113
laundry work, 22, 34, 88, 130
Licensing Act 1872, 41, 118, 127
literacy, 30, 62
LNA see Ladies National Association
lock hospitals, 3, 143
see also Chatham Lock Hospital
lodging houses, 32, 40, 901
Logan, William, 3, 534
loitering see obstructing the footway
Lombroso, Cesare, 64
London, 2, 4, 19, 28, 31, 49, 76, 111, 138,
158
Luddy, Maria, 53
Luscombe, Inspector William, 135, 140, 148

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journalism see newspapers
Joyce, Brian, 28, 138
Justices of the Peace, 6, 29, 312, 103, 108,
117, 119
judgments and policies of, 55, 84, 95,
105, 109, 11112

Magdalen homes see Chatham House of Refuge; Dover Home for Young Women
Magistrates see Justices of the Peace
Mahood, Linda, 65
Maidstone
Camden Street, 25
Jolly Sailor, 116
Perry Street, 140
Roebuck Inn, 623
Turkey Paper Mill, 21
Two Brewers, 41
Week Street, 41, 62
Woollett Street, 25, 47, 140
Wharf Lane, 33

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Maidstone Gaol, 26, 30, 36, 44, 478, 91,
93, 103, 114, 116, 125, 127, 129, 131,
134, 146, 1489, 1567
management of, 130, 145
Maidstone Telegraph, 623, 152
makeshift economies, 1921, 23, 269,
334, 378, 48, 72, 131, 153
marriage, 367, 42, 467
Martineau, Harriet, 8, 137
Mayhew, Henry, 71
medical examination see CD Acts
medical profession, 3, 5, 68, 134
Medway, River, 17, 21
Board of Guardians, 23, 27, 40, 52
mental health, of women involved in prostitution see Kent County Asylum
mental maps, 95
Metropolitan Police, 45, 106, 124, 132, 138,
140, 147, 149, 155, 106
Dockyard Division, 135, 13840
miasma, 84
military, 56, 8, 29
installations, 7
missionary work, 3, 45
mistaken identity, 101, 134, 137
moral entrepreneurs, 66
Morning Advertiser, 63
motherhood, of women in prostitution see
children
mothers, 2527, 37, 45, 47, 4950, 103, 160
Mowll, William, 110
Municipal Corporations Act, 106, 110, 114
murder, 56

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nymph du pave, euphemism for prostitute,

11, 65, 6971, 152
Oakes, Robert, 32, 98, 110,
obstructing the footway, 2, 10
orphan status, of women in prostitution, 24
othering, process of, 1113, 58, 60, 72
outdoor relief, 17, 23
overcrowding, 834
Pall Mall Gazette, 44
paper making, 212, 78
Parent-Duchatelet, A. J. B., 23, 29
Paris, prostitution in, 2
Parliamentary Select Committee on the
Administration and Operation of the
Contagious Diseases Acts, 6, 46, 523,
101, 1334, 137, 139, 145, 151, 154,
159
petitions, 154, 156
philanthropy, 3
Phipps, Sgt Charles, 139
physiognomy, 64
pimping, 40
Plymouth, 9, 14, 136, 154, 160
police
as prosecutors, 113
cells, 96, 129
local knowledge of, 99
reform of, 1058
residential patterns of, 97, 99100
stations, 856, 91, 967, 100
see also new police
policing
detective, 138
manpower, 108
of the CD Acts, 1356
plain-clothed, 108, 135, 138
preventative, 105, 109
Poor Law
Records, 20, 35, 52
relief, 23
see also workhouse
poverty, 3, 12, 18, 24, 25, 278, 323, 367,
478, 72, 83
and life cycle, 24
pregnancy, 268, 34
press see newspapers

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National Association for the Repeal of the

CD Acts 156, 1589
needle trades, 22, 23, 94
new police, 10, 1045, 110, 115
see also policing
newspapers
history and influence of, 612
didactic role of, 5, 61, 72
discourse of, 5, 13, 46, 51, 69
pen portraits in, 60, 634, 71
readership, 613, 69, 72
Nightingale, Florence 8, 137
nominal record linkage, 24, 148
as methodology, 20

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prison
population, 130
see also imprisonment, Maidstone Gaol
prostitution
as female subculture, 13, 434
attitudes towards, 3, 65
causes of, 48
discourses surrounding, 12, 45, 11, 19,
29
family patterns of, 47
outcomes of, 346
part-time, 3, 213
politics of, 7,
sums earned from, 29, 40
statistics related to, 18, 65, 121
publicans, 39, 423
Public House Closing Acts, 110
see also Licensing Acts
public nuisance offences, 111, 113, 119, 127,
129
see also disorderly behaviour
punishment, 116, 126, 129

retail
developments in, 88
residential patterns in, 889
Rimbault, Stephen, 212, 33, 47, 142
riotous behaviour, charges of, 25, 30, 356,
43, 57, 80, 86, 91, 93, 97, 100, 107,
116, 1267, 131, 14950, 152
definitions of, 11215, 11920
robbery see theft
Rochester, 17, 45, 54, 116, 111, 113, 130,
140
Buffalos Head, 43
Police Force, 106, 124
rookeries, 856
Royal Commission on the Administration
and Operation of the Contagious
Diseases Acts, 150, 151, 157
Royal Marines, 43, 93
Ruxton, Captain John, 1089
sailors, 29, 43, 78, 923, 137
sanitary reform, 3, 69
second-hand clothing, 71
seduction see prostitution, causes of
Select Committee see Parliamentary Select
Committee
Self, Helen, 11
sentencing patterns, 122, 1267
servants, 27, 36, 89
see also domestic service
sexually transmitted disease see venereal
disease
Shaen, William, 159
Sheerness
historical development of, 80
Mile Town, 80, 100
Sheerness Guardian, 66
Sheerness Times and General Advertiser, 152
Sheppey
Poor Law Guardians, 23
Union Workhouse, 356
see also Blue Town, Sheerness
Shield, 8, 1368, 144, 149, 1534
shoemakers, 24, 47, 93, 98
shopping, 74, 82, 889, 92
see also retail
Shorncliffe Military Camp, 5, 106, 142, 160
Sittingbourne, 24, 111

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Quaker, see religion
quasher, 137

recidivism, 478, 54, 60

Rees, Alderman Rowland, 1378, 160
reform see rescue initiatives
reformatories, 27, 2930, 50, 142
refuges see individual towns
registration see CD Acts
regulation, 34, 9
religion, 33, 145, 1578
Congregational, 158
Quaker, 133
Wesleyan, 8, 160
see also missionary work
repeal campaign, 89, 134, 14, 75, 1348,
142, 1512
activism, 15560, 162
discourses of, 13, 51, 101, 151
see also Ladies National Association
rescue initiatives, 34, 45
residential patterns, 32
residuum, 33
respectability, 2, 11, 14, 60, 61, 65, 66, 70,
85, 89, 91, 101, 104, 116, 117, 148

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slums, 83, 86, 90
social
class, 61
control, 63
evil, 2, 65, 67
explorers, 33
mobility, 3, 34, 37
soliciting, 1, 1011, 76, 80, 83, 856, 96,
108, 112, 116, 11821
prosecutions for, 27, 30, 35, 65, 68, 70,
90, 99100, 150
punishment for, 130
statistics related to, 36, 111, 11213
Southampton, 9, 14, 160
Southey, Eliza, 137, 138
statistics
crime, 65, 118
related to CD Acts, 41, 45, 124, 1412,
147
see also prostitution; soliciting
stereotypes, 61, 134
of prostitute women, 24, 34, 678, 72
Stigant, Adam, 53
stipendiary magistrates, 111, 123
streetwalking, 26, 75, 86, 95, 106, 112,
11819, 129
suicide, attempted, 17, 35, 54, 123
summary justice, 111, 120, 130, 149
extension of, 110

201

venereal disease, 23, 56, 1213, 19, 28,

34, 36, 40, 523, 679
admission to workhouse on grounds of,
26
role of CD Acts in control of, 1345,
141, 143, 145
treatment for, 25, 30
victimization, 1, 14, 19, 389, 48, 501
violence, women as victims of, 556, 161
virago stereotype, 59, 67, 69, 72
voluntary submission form see CD Acts
wage rates, of working women see earning
power
Walkowitz, Judith, 9, 19, 33, 34, 44, 51, 66,
70, 104, 127, 151, 153
Watch Committee, 106
Dover, 108, 113, 128, 138
Gravesend, 85, 108
Maidstone, 107
watermen, 24, 37, 76, 83
Weeks, Jeffrey, 151
Wesleyan see religion, Wesleyan
Wesleyan Society for Repeal, 8
Westminster Review, 3
White, Supt Frederick, 84, 96
Willis, Captain, 107
window-breaking, 17, 131
in Chatham Lock Hospital, 1445
Windsor, 6, 154
Wheeler, Frederick, 22, 1334, 1389,
1402, 145, 1501, 155
Wybrow, Caroline, 1338, 141, 143, 1458,
151, 160
Woolwich, 7, 46, 41, 45, 523, 80, 106,
1369, 1423, 1535
Rescue Home, 35
Royal Arsenal, 5
Working Mens National League, 8
workhouses, 3, 24, 34, 52, 131
see also individual Poor Law unions

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Tait, William, 3
Taylor, David, 312, 115, 131
textile production, 18
theft, 12, 302, 434, 49, 55, 734, 126
Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, 112, 114,
119, 127
Tuffield, Rev., 53
unfortunate, euphemism for prostitute, 2,
11, 22, 267, 46, 56, 61, 65, 678, 73,
86, 88, 91, 934, 113, 1246
unemployment, 33
urban development, 75, 86, 1001
vagrancy, 21, 45, 113
Vagrancy Act, 11, 11315, 119, 1234, 149
prosecutions under, 25, 124, 135

youth see juveniles

Zedner, Lucia, 64, 101, 131