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1955-1958   Committee on homosexual offences and prostitution: Admiralty policy   ADM 1/26823
1954-1955   Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (Wolfenden Report): Air Ministry evidence   AIR 2/12407
1953-1967   Report on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (Wolfenden Report) 1957, legislation and application to RAF   AIR 2/17160
1888-1889   Prostitution: Vagrant Act Amendment Bill HO 45/9784/B2917   and HO 45/9785/B2917A
1967-1968   Lord Longford's Youth Enquiry: drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution (open)   CAB 153/199
1929   Hong Kong: Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance   CO 129/519/11
1929   Hong Kong: trafficking in children   CO 129/519/3
1930   Hong Kong: trafficking in children   CO 129/521/7
1930-1931   Hong Kong: social hygiene, including trafficking in women and children, brothels etc   CO 129/522/3
1931   Hong Kong: position of prostitution in Hong Kong   CO 129/533/10
1932-1933   Hong Kong: Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance 1932   CO 129/537/10
1933-1934   Hong Kong: Marriage Amendment Ordinance 1934. Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance 1934   CO 129/547/7
1926-1927   Straits Settlements: prostitution and VD in Malaya: correspondence; report of the British Social Hygiene Council by Professor Bostock Hill of his visit to Malaya Oct 1926   CO 273/539/5
1928   Straits Settlements: formation of a committee to enquire into social hygiene laws of Malaya: with committee minutes and correspondence   CO 273/543/1-2
1928-1929   Straits Settlements: working papers of the Colonial Office Social Hygiene Committee: includes various printed papers   CO 273/543/3-544/4
1929   Straits Settlements: Report of Colonial Office Social Hygiene Committee, with correspondence   CO 273/556/8
1925-1931   Straits Settlements: Women and Girls Protection Ordinance 1930: social hygiene measures; First Report of the Advisory Committee on Social Hygiene (Cmd 2501, 1925)   CO 273/564/1
1931   Straits Settlements: Annual Report on the working of Ordinance 172 (Female Domestic Servants) and Ordinance 15 (Women and Girls Protection) for the year 1930: mui tsai system   CO 273/573/1
1935   Straits Settlements: Women and Girls Protection (Amendment) Ordinance: draft bill   CO 273/605/13
1937   Straits Settlements: The Women and Girls Protection (Amendment) Ordinance no 13 of 1937   CO 273/634/7
1939   Straits Settlements: Women and Girls Protection (Amendment) Ordinance, No 46 of 1939   CO 273/656/26
1939   Straits Settlements: prostitution in Singapore: concerns over heavy incidence of VD. Including reports for 1899,1906 and 1923 (with enclosures)   CO 273/659/13
1941   Straits Settlements: prostitution in Singapore   CO 273/667/13
1941   Straits Settlements: Women and Girls Protection (Amendment) Ordinance, no 20 of 1941   CO 273/667/2
1929   Proposed amendment of international convention regarding traffic in women and children   CO 323/1026/7
1930   Traffic in women and children legislation   CO 323/1070/2
1929-1930   Traffic in women and children legislation: investigations in the Far East   CO 323/1070/3-4
1930-1931   Traffic in women and children legislation: international convention   CO 323/1070/5
1930   Extension of White Slave Traffic Convention, 1910 to the colonies   CO 323/1079/4
1930   Leung Tum-Sheung, second class interpreter in office of secretary for Chinese affairs, Hong Kong: receiving illicit payments from brothel keepers and prostitutes   CO 323/1083/13
1930   Colonial Office Conference 1930: Social Hygiene   CO 323/1109/8
1931   Traffic in women and children   CO 323/1116/15
1931   Expenses of officers attending courses arranged by British Social Hygiene Council   CO 323/1143/5
1931   Imperial Social Hygiene Congress, London July 1931   CO 323/1148/9
1933   Social Hygiene Congress: biological teaching in schools and colleges   CO 323/1208/12
1933   National conference on the place of biology in education: arrangements by British Social Hygiene Council   CO 323/1208/9
1933   Traffic in women and children: investigations in the Far East   CO 323/1212/12-13
1933   Traffic in women and children: questionnaire on the abolition of licensed houses   CO 323/1213/1
1934   Convention for the suppression of the traffic in women of full age, 1933   CO 323/1258/3
1934   Traffic in women and children: League of Nations report on the abolition of licensed houses, 1934   CO 323/1258/4-5
1934   Traffic in women and children: preparatory conference at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine   CO 323/1258/6
1934   'Empire Social Hygiene Year Book' 1934   CO 323/1278/17
1935-1936   Traffic in women and children in the East: preparation for the League of Nations Conference   CO 323/1320/8
1935-1936   Traffic in women and children: marriage of Cypriot brides to Palestinian Arabs   CO 323/1320/9
1935-1936   White Slave Traffic: orders in council   CO 323/1322/15
1936-1937   Traffic in women and children in the East: League of Nations Conference   CO 323/1360/5-6
1936   Enquiry into methods of rehabilitating prostitute women   CO 323/1361/2
1936   British Social Hygiene Council: 'Empire Social Hygiene Year Book'   CO 323/1406/9
1936   Enquiry from the British Social Hygiene Council Incorporated concerning poor law in the colonies   CO 323/1407/10
1937-1938   Traffic in women and children: obscene publications: annual reports   CO 323/1432/1
1937   Traffic in women and children: League of Nations Conference in the East, Bandoeng, Java   CO 323/1432/2
1937   Traffic in Women of Full Age Convention 1933   CO 323/1432/3
1937   Convention for Suppressing the Exploitation of Prostitution   CO 323/1432/4
1937   Convention for Suppressing the Exploitation of Prostitution: designated central authorities for the convention   CO 323/1432/5
1937-1938   Convention for Suppressing the Exploitation of Prostitution: replies to circular despatch of 30 June 1937   CO 323/1432/6
1937   Traffic in women and children: International Congress, Paris 1937   CO 323/1432/7
1937   VD, brothels and prostitution: campaign by British Social Hygiene Council   CO 323/1463/1
1937   British Social Hygiene Council: eighth imperial social hygiene congress   CO 323/1464/11
1938   Traffic in women and children: proposed League of Nations convention on the suppression of the exploitation of the prostitution of others, and legislation   CO 323/1544/4-5
1938-1939   Social Hygiene Council: proposed creation of National Social Hygiene Board   CO 323/1565/8
1938   British Social Hygiene Council: Imperial Conference, 29 June 1938   CO 323/1568/5
1938   British Social Hygiene Council: Ninth Imperial Social Hygiene Congress, July 1939   CO 323/1568/6
1926   Advisory Commission for Protection and Welfare of Children and Young People: suppression of traffic in women and children   CO 323/957/6
1927   Colonial Office Advisory Committee on Social Hygiene: recommendation to abolish brothels   CO 323/978/7
1935   Seychelles: prostitution: regulations   CO 530/368
1942   Seychelles: Prostitution Ordinance 1941   CO 530/558
1941-1942   Cyprus: incidence of prostitution and VD   CO 67/316/21
1934   Malay States, Federated: Women and Girls Protection (Amendment) Enactment 1934   CO 717/105/10
1938   Malay States, Federated: Enactment No 15 of 1938: Women and Girls Protection (Amendment) Enactment   CO 717/134/14
1931-1932   Malay States, Federated: Enactment of No 1 of 1931: Women and Girls Protection Enactment   CO 717/77/4
1939   Far East: Mui Tsai: Ordinances Nos 5, 7 and 14: amendments to Protection of Women and Girls Bill, 1938   CO 825/27/6
1941   Far East: Association for Moral and Social Hygiene   CO 825/30/6
1938   College of Nursing and British Social Hygiene Council standing conference on overseas nursing   CO 850/137/4
1939-1940   British Social Hygiene Council: VD campaign   CO 859/12/14
1939-1940   British Social Hygiene Council: Imperial Committee   CO 859/12/15
1949-1951   Traffic in women and children: obscene publications   CO 859/224/2
1951   Traffic in women and children: correspondence with Association for Moral and Social Hygiene   CO 859/224/3
1951-1952   Traffic in women and children: application to Colonies of international convention on suppression of obscene publications   CO 859/224/4
1949-1950   Nigeria: traffic in women and children: correspondence and annual reports   CO 859/224/5
1950   Far East: UNESCO: proposed Far Eastern Bureau for Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children   CO 859/225/6
1951-1952   UNESCO: suppression of traffic in persons and prostitution   CO 859/226/6
1952-1954   Traffic in women and children: correspondence re annual reports; reports   CO 859/436-437
1955-1956   Malta: suppression of white slave traffic   CO 859/546
1954   North Borneo: women and children protection legislation in North Borneo   CO 859/547
1956   Malaya: traffic in women and children: activities of wives of UK soldiers in Malaya   CO 859/548
1954-1956   Malaya, Federation of: traffic in women and children: protection legislation   CO 859/549
1954-1955   Singapore: traffic in women and children: alleged activities of Service wives in Singapore   CO 859/550
1954-1955   Hong Kong: traffic in women and children: protection legislation in Hong Kong   CO 859/551
1955-1956   Reports from Colonial territories on the suppression of traffic in persons and the exploitation of the prostitution of others   CO 859/553
1942-1943   West Africa: traffic in women and children; legislation   CO 859/60/7-8
1943   Ceylon: traffic in women and children; legislation   CO 859/60/9
1941-1943   Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases: VD: British Social Hygiene Council   CO 859/61/19
1902   Wei-Hai-Wei: sly brothels, proposal to prohibit   CO 873/36
1902   Wei-Hai-Wei: police protection for prostitutes, fees for   CO 873/41
1902   Wei-Hai-Wei: brothel on Island, permit for   CO 873/43
1916   Wei-Hai-Wei: traffic in women, punishment for offenders   CO 873/480
1931   Gibraltar: Summary Conviction (Amendment) Ordinance 1931: persons trading in prostitution   CO 91/491/6
1900   Rhodesia: reports from Native Commissioners; legislation to curb prostitution; report on the 'Lobolo' (cattle marriage) system in Southern Rhodesia   DO 119/587
1943-1946   Traffic in Women and Children and obscene publications, 1946 Y 1193/1   DO 35/1190
1930-1936   Traffic in women   DO 35/160/3
1930-1936   White Slave Traffic Convention   DO 35/162/7
1937-1939   Agreement on traffic in women and children, 1904; reports to League of Nations   DO 35/571/13-572/1
1874-1881   Belgium: immoral traffic in English girls   FO 10/430-431
1946-1950   Austria: prostitution and VD: legal controls   FO 1020/2270
1948   Control Commission Germany: Legal Division, Berlin HQ: proposal to abolish detention in workhouses, without trial, of vagrants and prostitutes   FO 1060/789
1906-1930   White Slaves: US correspondence: year by year subject headings. See list   FO 115
1915-1927   Egypt: White Slave Traffic   FO 141/466/1415
1915-1929   Egypt: prostitution and VD   FO 141/466/1429
1932   Egypt: White Slave Traffic   FO 141/488/84
1934   Egypt: White Slave Traffic   FO 141/499/263
1931   Egypt: White Slave Traffic   FO 141/771/350
1920-1927   China: Mui Tsai and White Slavery   FO 228/3571
1936   Greece: (286) Treaties: White Slave Traffic   FO 286/1139
1920   Greece: slavery: repatriation of white slave traffic   FO 286/748
1924   Greece: protection of women and children in the Near East   FO 286/905
1926   Greece: protection of women and children in the Near East   FO 286/981
1955   Argentina: re-opening of brothels in Argentine   FO 371/114065
1960   Sweden: pornographic material despatched to UK   FO 371/152082
1964   USA: flow of obscene publications from US   FO 371/174329
1964   UN: Commission for Traffic of Human Beings   FO 371/178311
1938   League of Nations: Traffic in Women and Children: Convention for the Suppression of the Exploitation of Prostitution: Advisory Commission on Social Questions: VD, obscene publications etc. 62 (whole)   FO 371/22521-22524
1940   British Social Hygiene Council: VD CO 859/30/15 1940 League of Nations: Reports on Traffic in Women and Children 167   FO 371/25232
1941   League of Nations: report on traffic in women and children   FO 371/26654
1941   East Africa: Italian non-combatants in East Africa - disposal - welfare - evacuation - protection of women and children - American Red Cross aid   FO 371/27572
1942   League of Nations: Traffic in Women and Children and Obscene Publications   FO 371/30984
1944   League of Nations: Traffic in Women and Children and Obscene Publications   FO 371/39309
1944   League of Nations: reports on traffic in women and children and obscene publications   FO 371/40491
1945   League of Nations: reports on the traffic in women and children and obscene publications 1942-1945   FO 371/50628
1946   League of Nations: Traffic in Women and Children   FO 371/57011
1947   UN: suppression of traffic in women and children and in obscene publications   FO 371/67629
1948   Saudi Arabia: slave trade in the Red Sea area: white slave traffic between Persia and Saudi Arabia   FO 371/68774
1948   UN: conventions regarding obscene publications and traffic in women and children   FO 371/72755-72757
1949   UN: Conventions on traffic in women and children: suppression of prostitution and obscene publications   FO 371/78951-78958
1950   UN: protest from the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene against UN allowing too short a time to collect opinion from voluntary societies   FO 371/88663
1950   UN concern with prostitution and traffic in persons   FO 371/88750-88751
1874-1881   Belgium: Confidential Print: Immoral traffic in English girls in Belgium: correspondence (4386)   FO 425/115
1924   Thailand (Siam): traffic in women and girls by rail from Siam to Malaya   FO 628/40
1899-1903   White Slave Traffic   FO 83/1943
1904-1905   White Slave Traffic   FO 83/2177
1878   Special regulations of prostitutes and brothels in the codes of various countries, analysis of above prepared by Dr Neuins, letter 15 February 1878   FO 83/575
1913   Morocco: brothels regulation: Confidential Print   FO 881/10222
1914   O in C Extradition (Germany) white slave traffic: Confidential Print   FO 881/10445*
1874-1881   Belgium 2: immoral traffic in English girls: Confidential Print   FO 881/4386
1881   Belgium 2: immoral traffic in English girls: Confidential Print   FO 881/4542
1902-1904   General 55: International Conference on White Slave Traffic: Confidential Print   FO 881/7780
1905   General 55: International Conference on White Slave Traffic pt 2: Confidential Print   FO 881/8929
1912   Egypt: White Slave Traffic: Mrs M Papisco and three English girls   FO 891/9
1910   Convention: White Slave Traffic (Certified Copy)   FO 93/1/27
1947   Protocol: Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children (Amendments to Conventions of 1921 and 1933)   FO 93/1/323
1950   Convention: Suppression of Traffic in Persons and of Exploitation of Prostitution of Others   FO 93/1/404
1921-1922   Convention: suppression of traffic in women and children (Certified Copy)   FO 93/1/73
1921   Final Act: International Conference for the suppression of the traffic of women and children (Certified Copy)   FO 93/1/74
1904   France: Arrangement: 'White Slave Traffic' and Procès-verbal de Signature: certified copies   FO 93/33/213
1945-1947   Control Office: Germany: VD and prostitution   FO 937/51
1917   H A Samson: fined £5 for aiding and abetting and keeping of a brothel. Granted free pardon the Magistrates having convicted under a misapprehension of the law   HO 144/1482/347866
1886-1888   Case of Louise Hart: Mr Poland's opinion against proceedings   HO 144/167/A2639 and A2639A
1890   Treasury Solicitor asks for material telegram in case of procuring. Warrant issued   HO 144/236/A52012
1885   Death of surety for Mrs Jeffreys (keeper of brothels) L.O.O.   HO 144/468/X124
1886   Proceedings against keepers of disorderly houses L.O.O.804   HO 144/469/X8935
1887-1888   Arrest of Miss Elizabeth Cass: inquiry into conduct of police   HO 144/472/X15239
1887-1898   Blackmail by police on Clapham Common   HO 144/472/X15239A
1887-1893   Conviction of a prostitute (Grace Blair) and discharge of the man (Southport)   HO 144/472/X15501
1895-1896   Marie Olga T Bauernfeind: extradited to Germany. Child stealing and abduction for immoral purposes   HO 144/504/X54804
1896   Extradition: F Davison: procuring of English girls at Havre   HO 144/506/X57952
1881   Contagious Diseases Acts (Women): conduct of police in case at Dover   HO 144/78/A4010
1909   Free pardon and compensation granted to Rev Edward Rhodes convicted of indecent conduct with a prostitute   HO 144/903/175845
1899-1906   White Slave Traffic Convention: adherence by various countries: prosecution under Vagrancy Act   HO 144/not traced/ A48032
1919-1954   Sexual offences: foreign laws and practice; prostitution in India   HO 291/122
1957-1969   Sexual offences: Departmental Committee on Homosexuality and Prostitution, action on the report (opened 1997 following re-review)   HO 291/123-131
1955-1969   Sexual Offences Bill 1855-1956 (opened 1997 following re-review)   HO 291/131
1954-1957   Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution: correspondence; minutes; evidence; report   HO 345/1-20
1877-1892   Children: juvenile offenders: reformatory and industrial schools; traffic in girls; memorandum   HO 347/5
1952-1955   Foreign mistresses and prostitutes in UK   HO 352/73
1888-1902   Disorderly houses   HO 45/10003/A49603
1893-1906   Prostitution etc. in London   HO 45/10123/B13517
1902   Immoral Traffic (Scotland)   HO 45/10244/B38088
1903-1908   Responsibility of mothers for care of girls under 16: proposed legislation   HO 45/10285/107840
1906-1909   Legislation concerning prostitution and brothels   HO 45/10333/136876
1907-1908   Prostitution in Cardiff   HO 45/10354/149817
1907   Young girls found in brothels   HO 45/10365/155599
1908   Expulsion of alien prostitutes   HO 45/10390/171419
1894-1910   Difficulties in suppressing disorderly houses   HO 45/10430/A55693
1906-1918   Treatment of prostitutes   HO 45/10523/140266
1912-1917   Inquiries into prostitution, disorderly houses etc.   HO 45/10557/166505
1908-1913   Criminal Law Amendment: White Slave Traffic   HO 45/10576/178486
1910-1916   Prevention of Immorality Bill, 1910, 1911 and 1912   HO 45/10612/194463
1911   Immoral Traffic Bill   HO 45/10644/208882
1911   Procuration Bill   HO 45/10644/208925
1911   Disorderly Houses Bill   HO 45/10644/208926
1914-1917   Criminal Law Amendment Bill: proposal to raise the protective age for girls   HO 45/10711/244320
1897-1920   LCC: registration of massage establishments   HO 45/10912/A56145
1920-1921   Protection of Women and Young Persons Bills, 1920 and 1921   HO 45/11022/407613
1916-1922   City of London: regulation of establishments for massage and special treatment   HO 45/11065/321257
1919-1922   League of Nations: traffic in women and children: International Convention   HO 45/11072/387653
1910-1924   Letters of request relating to offences covered by the White Slave Traffic Convention of the 4 May 1910 to be sent via diplomatic channels   HO 45/11499/192550
1910-1924   White Slave Traffic Convention 1910 (Paris): reports and signatories   HO 45/11499/192550
1922-1924   Traffic in women and children   HO 45/11607/436060
1923-1925   Female prisoners: payment of fines by undesirable persons   HO 45/12001/467183
1925   Manchester: massage etc. establishments: byelaws   HO 45/12060/475369
1922-1927   Appointment of Committee to consider the law and practice relating to soliciting etc.   HO 45/12663/483171
1927-1928   Traffic in Women etc.Bills 1927-1928   HO 45/13057/511293
1927-1928   International White Slave Traffic Convention: accession of Channel Islands and Isle of Man   HO 45/13097/517733
1928-1931   Girls' Social Welfare: Advisory Committee   HO 45/14242/523852
1928-1931   Protection of girls coming to London for employment   HO 45/14242/523852
1913-1933   Expulsion of foreign prostitutes: co-operation of National Vigilance Association   HO 45/15041/239609
1913-1937   White Slave Traffic Convention, 1910; extradition of offenders   HO 45/16914-16915/236597
1934-1937   Rehabilitation of adult prostitutes   HO 45/17092-17093/684346
1936-1937   Brentford and Chiswick: byelaws: massage establishments   HO 45/17151/695950
1927-1938   Traffic in women and children: International Convention, Geneva 1933   HO 45/17510-17511/652340
1931-1940   Suppression of the exploitation of prostitution: committee reports; draft convention   HO 45/18485-18486/595357
1847   Apprehension of prostitutes   HO 45/1892
1943-1945   Traffic in women and children: future proposals of the International Bureau   HO 45/19824/877156
1864-1921   Memorandum on the state control of prostitutes in the UK 1864-1921 (file date 1924-1925)   HO 45/20044/455304
1934-1946   Barking Borough: byelaws: establishments for massage or special treatment   HO 45/20548/675961
1946   Feltham Urban District Council: byelaws: establishments for massage or special treatment   HO 45/20718/892746
1935-1937   Juvenile Courts: immorality amongst young girls   HO 45/21072/677925
1929-1948   Legislation concerning prostitution and brothels   HO 45/21766/531994
1937-1948   Harrow Borough: byelaws: massage establishments   HO 45/21867/695561
1907-1949   Disorderly houses: methods of police prosecutions   HO 45/22676/153787
1912   White Slave Traffic: formation of police branch to combat   HO 45/24636/229901
1913-1927   Queenie Gerald: conviction for keeping a disorderly house; press campaign against her activities   HO 45/24649/240840
1928-1948   Street Offences Bill 1929: Public Places (Order and Decency) Bill 1938   HO 45/24902/531994
1933-1948   Licensing control of chiropody and massage establishments: difficulty of drafting model byelaws   HO 45/24962/665515
1950-1954   Menace of the 'lorry girl': warning to British Transport lorry drivers giving lifts for immoral purposes to girls and approved school absconders   HO 45/24986/686066
1950-1954   Prostitution: memorandum on the law in England and Wales in response to enquiries from overseas   HO 45/25134/870352
1947-1954   UK vote against UN convention for the suppression of traffic in women and children, 1949. Netherlands Ministry of Justice request for information on prospective British employers of Dutch women   HO 45/25206-25207/903835
1954-1956   Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution   HO 45/25306/944915
1950-1951   Procurement: extension of protection to prostitutes; Mrs Barbara Castle's Criminal Law Amendment Bill, 1951   HO 45/25339/958815
1909-1934   Colour problems and white slave traffic in Liverpool and other ports   HO 45/25404/175483
1851   Prostitution: furnishing of returns to private compiler of statistics   HO 45/3767
1853-1854   Annoyance by prostitutes in the street   HO 45/5166
1847   Prostitution: draft Bill   HO 45/554
1857-1858   Metropolitan Police: street prostitution: alleged interest of the police   HO 45/6628
1862   Refreshment houses: nightly prostitution and unlicensed trading in exciseable liquors   HO 45/7370
1872   Byelaws: Scarborough: disorderly houses L.O.O.177   HO 45/9315/14888
1878   Byelaws: Lincoln: disorderly houses   HO 45/9463/75243
1869-1885   Efforts of police to eradicate prostitution in the Haymarket   HO 45/9511/17216
1875-1884   Contagious Diseases Acts (Women): modification of Acts and protests against withdrawal of Metropolitan Police   HO 45/9511/17273A
1880   Contagious Diseases Acts (Women): exclusion of public from Court not affected by Section 20 of Summary Jurisdiction Act 1879   HO 45/9512/17273B
1881-1887   Contagious Diseases Acts (Women): withdrawals of Metropolitan Police from Military stations and gratuities to Police   HO 45/9512/17273C
1874-1890   White Slave Traffic: report of Special Commissioner. Includes L.O.O.442 as to decoying girls to Belgium   HO 45/9546/59343
1883-1884   Proposed legislation for better protection of young girls: L.O.O.705 as to draft Bill   HO 45/9546/59343G
1884-1885   Prostitution: Criminal Law Amendment Bill and Act of 1885. Includes L.O.O.783   HO 45/9547/59343I
1885   Decoying of English girls to Brussels and Havre   HO 45/9547/59343J
1885   Proposed Convention by Netherlands Government to check Traffic   HO 45/9547/59343K
1879   Police authority to prevent use of Music and Dancing Rooms by prostitutes   HO 45/9575/80993
1880   White Slave Traffic: alleged complicity between Belgian police and Brussels brothel keepers   HO 45/9599/98018
1882   Prosecution of brothel keepers by parish authorities. Proposed transfer of police   HO 45/9615/A12342
1886-1887   Complaint re immoral conduct and lack of police action on Clapham Common L.O.O. A15 of 1846 within   HO 45/9666/A45364
1887-1894   Police observation on disorderly houses and brothels   HO 45/9678/A7459
1887-1893   Appropriation of fines in respect of disorderly houses   HO 45/9682/A48209
1891-1902   Conspiracy to procure women under 21 for carnal connection   HO 45/9724/A52012C
1893-1896   Vice in Garrison Towns: proposed legislation   HO 45/9740/A55536
1895   Prostitution: proposed Bill to amend Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885   HO 45/9745/A56729
1888-1897   Common Lodging Houses: L.O.O. 943 (9798 pieces 1-25, 9799 pieces 26-)   HO 45/9798/B5239 and HO 45/9799/B5239
1886   Fines imposed on keepers of disorderly houses: disposal of   HO 45/9962/X9003
1887   St George's Vigilance Society: application for payment to them of fines imposed upon brothel keepers   HO 45/9963/X14891
1887-1889   Difficulty experienced by police in obtaining convictions of prostitutes unless supported by persons annoyed   HO 45/9964/X15663
1922   League of Nations Geneva 1922: Cabinet: Report of Advisory Committee on Traffic in Women and Children (174)   LAB 2/921/IL157/22
1930   International Labour Conference 1926: Draft Convention and recommendation adopted by above at 8th Session. Simplification of emigrants on board ship and protection of women and girls (175)   LAB 2/959/IL108/30
1942-1945   Position of prostitutes   LAB 8/109
1943   Parliamentary Question: Sir Percy Hurd: as to enticement by a woman   LCO 2/2776
1959-1966   Street Offences Act 1959: reports from Divisions on activities of prostitutes (closed 50 years)   MEPO 2/10001-10003
1954-1959   Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (the Wolfenden Committee): consideration of the report's recommendations   MEPO 2/10236
1959-1961   Booklet 'Ladies Directory' believed to contain addresses of prostitutes: conviction of publisher Frederick Charles Shaw for publishing obscene article, living on immoral earnings and conspiracy to corrupt public morals; subsequent appeal dismissed   MEPO 2/10559
1959-1963   Street Offences Act 1959: establishment of A4 Branch Central Index of Prostitution   MEPO 2/10815
1906-1907   Prostitutes: admitting to bail on own recognisances   MEPO 2/1086
1908   Common lodging house used by prostitutes   MEPO 2/1266
1909-1914   Common lodging houses: attempts to control use by prostitutes   MEPO 2/1287
1913   White Slave Traffic: International Congress   MEPO 2/1312
1909-1911   Disorderly Houses Act 1751: prosecution (Kingston Skating Rink)   MEPO 2/1316
1908-1909   Protection of girls: raising of age to 18   MEPO 2/1334
1910-1914   Prostitution and Street Betting: plain clothes duty - limitation of employment   MEPO 2/1419
1910   Prostitutes: Commissioner's observations on current procedure   MEPO 2/1434
1913   Brothels: children living in   MEPO 2/1548
1914   White Slave Traffic: Miss McDougall's appointment   MEPO 2/1577
1914   Disorderly Houses Bill (to amend Disorderly Houses Act 1751)   MEPO 2/1602
1912-1919   White Slave Traffic: appointment of lady assistants   MEPO 2/1610
1916-1917   Disorderly Houses: police observation in military uniforms as a special case   MEPO 2/1714
1916-1919   Women patrols: control of prostitutes in parks and open spaces   MEPO 2/1720
1919   White Slave Traffic: appointment of lady assistant   MEPO 2/1763
1887-1896   Prostitutes: police action: Magisterial comments, legal opinion   MEPO 2/209
1924   Soliciting by prostitutes: criticism of magistrates by the Commissioner in his annual report of 1923 and the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's reply   MEPO 2/2290
1923   Prostitutes and the police: extract from 'Justice of the Peace' and Commissioner's observations   MEPO 2/2291
1892-1901   Prostitution: complaints about houses and behaviour in Euston Road area   MEPO 2/293
1928-1934   Immorality in parks and open spaces, women's courts and the employment of plain clothes officers on this work   MEPO 2/3231
1894-1907   Children and Young Persons in brothels: protection - action under the Industrial Schools Act 1880   MEPO 2/355
1894-1902   Public Houses: prostitutes frequenting   MEPO 2/384
1936   Unemployment Assistance Board offer information about girls suspected street walkers   MEPO 2/4247
1897-1906   Brothels: prosecution of landlord and porter   MEPO 2/429
1895-1907   Disorderly houses: allocation of costs   MEPO 2/438
1895-1903   Brothels: police action generally   MEPO 2/439
1937   Alien suffering prostitutes and drunkards on licensed refreshment premises   MEPO 2/4488
1895-1915   Disorderly houses: massage establishments   MEPO 2/460
1937   'Gutter crawling' by car drivers bent on picking up women: difficulty in proving 'insulting words and behaviour'   MEPO 2/4600
1884-1887   Disorderly houses and brothels: refusal of gratuities for suppression   MEPO 2/509
1899-1916   White Slave Traffic: International Conferences   MEPO 2/558
1932-1934   Magisterial direction that police should receive expenses in brothel cases: Police Order   MEPO 2/5700
1932-1933   Incidental expenses of observations of night club, disorderly house and similar cases: Deputy Commissioner's views on need for economy   MEPO 2/5702
1892-1922   Hyde Park: prostitution, indecency and disorderly conduct therein. Dispositions of police and allegations against them. Including map.   MEPO 2/5815
1933-1947   Procedure for dealing with disorderly houses and importuning, including statistics   MEPO 2/5962
1927-1928   Women soliciting but not known as common prostitutes: police procedure and practice under Section 54 (13) Metropolitan Police Act 1839. Chief Magistrate's remarks   MEPO 2/7356
1946-1950   Premises used for habitual prostitution: service of cautionary letters by police   MEPO 2/7856
1947   Search of suspected brothels: proposed legislation amendments   MEPO 2/8072
1882-1907   Police action with regard to brothels   MEPO 2/8833
1901-1906   Prostitution in London: request from local authorities for police to take more action   MEPO 2/8835
1906   Brothels: police interviewed by local authorities   MEPO 2/933
1906   Brothels and prostitutes: observations - recording of actual times of entering and leaving   MEPO 2/942
1953-1965   Soliciting for prostitution and related offences: monthly statistics   MEPO 2/9521
1921-1959   Fingerprinting of prostitutes: policy   MEPO 2/9998
1937-1950   Thomas Poullos, Cypriot: living on the immoral earnings of Joy Freeman   MEPO 3/1002
1939   Ida Parry: imprisoned for controlling prostitution; described as the first case of its kind   MEPO 3/1003
1932   Nathan Cohen, Communist, arrested for his activities as a white slave trafficker: Argentine Embassy enquiries about deportation   MEPO 3/1004
1930-1934   The International Bureau for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children: agendas and minutes of meetings   MEPO 3/1005
1937   Germaine Camille Sammut nee Lamoureux, French prostitute: using marriage of convenience in order to follow her profession   MEPO 3/1091
1887-1888   Elizabeth Cass charged with soliciting: alleges perjury by arresting officer   MEPO 3/139
1888   Prostitution in Whitechapel; letter from Godfrey Lushington to Commissioner of Metropolitan Police requesting numbers of brothels and prostitutes   MEPO 3/141
1910   General Orders (1910 edition) Section XX: Brothels and Prostitutes   MEPO 3/1764
1907   Complaint by prostitute that a police constable failed to arrest a man, another police constable off duty, who had assaulted her: reports and statements   MEPO 3/1791
1907   Brothels: keeping disorderly houses - special observation at local Council's request (adverse criticism)   MEPO 3/184
1910-1916   White Slave Traffic: living on immoral earnings - Aldo Altar Cellis and Alexander Berard   MEPO 3/197
1934   Suppression of trafficking in women: abolition of controlled brothels   MEPO 3/2062
1936   Control of persons suspected of being involved in trafficking in women and children for prostitution: resolution   MEPO 3/2069
1912-1918   White Slave Traffic: augmentation of Criminal Investigation Department to form new section devoted entirely to this work   MEPO 3/228
1947-1954   Prostitution in London: research by British Social Hygiene Council   MEPO 3/2967
1920   Conviction of alien prostitute for disorderly behaviour and the work of the National Vigilance Society   MEPO 3/310
1924-1930   Marriages of foreign prostitutes to British subjects to evade the operation of the Aliens Act and Orders: conviction of Suzanne Maskell, a riotous prostitute and details of kindred offences   MEPO 3/364
1936-1942   Wanted girl found in brothel (closed 75 years)   MEPO 3/591
1940   The Arch Social Club, 67 Bryanston St, W1: keeping a brothel   MEPO 3/770
1930-1931   14 Oxford Terrace, Paddington, using premises for habitual prostitution: disciplinary proceedings against officer concerned   MEPO 3/771
1934-1935   Deportation of aliens thought to be living in moral danger and the rehabilitation of prostitutes   MEPO 3/986
1936-1940   Album of foreign prostitutes: its purpose and restricted distribution   MEPO 3/988
1931-1937   Fernand Antonin Modena: traffic in women (marriages of convenience and procuring): deported to France   MEPO 3/999
1954   Girls in moral danger: action against unlicensed private hoteliers and US servicemen   MH 102/2166
1937-1959   Lunacy Commissioners: protection of defectives from acts of sexual immorality; procuration   MH 51/412-413
1940   VD: British Expeditionary Forces and licensed brothels in France: representations   MH 55/1339
1943-1945   Solicitation by prostitutes of US servicemen based in London; Joint Committee on VD   MH 55/2317
1950   Prostitution and rehabilitation of prostitutes   PCOM 9/1332
1959   Prostitutes: rejection of proposal to segregate them in prison; committee stage of Street Offences Bill   PCOM 9/1831
1967   Prostitutes: allocation of prisoners convicted under Street Offences Act 1959   PCOM 9/2233
1913   Home Office. Payment of expenses incurred in connection with the return of Miss E F Wyers to England [Rescued from the white slave trade in Peking]   T 1/11530/5906/13
1913   Treasury Solicitor. Estate of Mrs D Love or M Thompson, decd (25172/12; 21906/12; 12719/12; 11913/12; 10762/12; 9917/12; 9371/12; 3053/12) [Insights into the underworld of Empire - the life history of a prostitute of Shanghai]   T 1/11578/21540/13
1750's   Petition of Edward Hosea and John Delaporte that they may receive the proceeds, now in the hands of the Sheriff of Middlesex, from the goods of Elizabeth Campbell alias Johnson towards the cost of the suit which they brought against her for keeping a disorderly house   T 1/350/113
1921-1937   League of Nations conferences on the traffic in women and children   T 161/729/S7574/1 and /2
1891-1892   R v Robert Newton ( a magistrate) and others (failure to issue a warrant for the arrest of brothel keepers)   TS 18/5
1917-1918   Prevention of VD: suggestion that brothels should be 'out of bounds' for troops in France. Conference on methods of treatment   WO 32/5597
1953-1961   Immorality in the Royal Parks   WORK 16/1791
1962-1969   Royal Parks: immoral behaviour offences   WORK 16/2128
1902-1913   Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens: immorality   WORK 16/512
1915-1937   Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens: immorality   WORK 16/543
 
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