On This Day, 5 June 1918

Birmingham Daily Post

Wednesday 5 June

SOCIAL PURITY CAMPAIGN.

Dr. Pemberton Fooks (hon. medical secretary of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, Birmingham branch) presided at a meeting held under the auspices of the Birmingham Women’s Suffrage Society last evening, for a discussion on the situation in regard to present and proposed legislation on social purity. Mrs. Swanwick referred chiefly to regulation “40 D” which, she said, degraded a woman, and when they did that they increased vice. The Rev. W. Thompson Elliott (Rural Dean of Leicester) appealed if there was going to be any penalisation, for the equal treatment of the sexes.