Catalogue description Blanche Leppington to Henry Wilson

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Details of 3JBL/36/08
Reference: 3JBL/36/08
Title: Blanche Leppington to Henry Wilson
Description:

Written from Brockenhurst, Hampshire

 

She suggests a different policy to combat venereal diseases in the Army: leave the Contagious Diseases Acts on one side and in their place use the methods of the public school: 'athletics, intelligent pursuits, the fostering of self respect, esprit de corps, the point of honour'. As one Indian Commissioner said in 1888: 'what the soldiers needed was more wholesome occupations'. Drop the wrong to women and instead emphasise the 'degradation of the soldier himself'.
Date: 11 Aug 1896
Held by: London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: 4767
Language: English
Physical description: 1 item

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