DescriptionMeetings and events- Contagious Diseases Acts- Wigan6 Jan 1881 (23107555441).jpg
English: TWL.2000.155Poster, printed, paper, advert for an election meeting in Wigan, black printed inscription: 'Wigan election a public meeting will be held on Thursday, 6 Jan 1881, In the public Hall, King Street, to promote the unconditional appeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts relating to women. Chair to be taken at 8 O'clock. The meeiting will be addressed by J Birbeck Nevins, Esq, MD of Liverpool; T Carson, Esq., MRCSI of Liverpool; William T Swan Esq. of London, Representative of the Northern Counties League for the Abolition of the State Regualtion of Vice. Edmund Jones, President ot the National Workmen's League for the Appeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. Electors! No question upon which either Mr LANCASTER or Mr, POWELL will have to record his Vote, if returned to Parliament, is of greater importance then whether the one-sided, unjust, and unconstitutional Contagious Diseases Acts, 1866-9, should continue to disgrace our Statute Book, or be unconditionally repealed. Every Voter, Liberal or Conservative, is earn
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