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Periodically she was an outpatient at Lock Hospital on Harrow Road, and most recently had been treated at University College Hospital.
Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930
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Madan had been brought into close contact with prostitution through a chaplaincy at the Lock Hospital, and, like the Puritan advocate of polygamy, he came to the conclusion that only by the reform of marriage is it possible to work against prostitution and the evils of sexual intercourse outside marriage.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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Tramps are also afraid of any venereal disease as it means the misery of the Lock Hospital.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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A lady informs me that she found in the Lock Hospital a girl whom she had formerly known, and who had become a wretched castaway, and the poor creature, when approached, hid her face under the bed-clothes, and could not be persuaded to uncover it.
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Philosophical Society, the Lock Hospital -- of all of these he had been an active promoter or director.
Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities 1879
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At the south corner of Chapel Street stood the Lock Hospital, established in 1747, attached to which was a chapel, built 1764, and an asylum for penitent females, founded by the Rev. Thomas Scott in 1787.
Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868
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Crossing the latter at the Lock Bridge, we see the Lock Hospital and
Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868
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[252] 'Madan:' Martin Madan, a celebrated English preacher, many years chaplain to the Lock Hospital.
Poetical Works Charles Churchill 1747
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Performed at the which he had lately given to the Lock Hospital, 1766. town.
Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse: 1782
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I asked for your address, I was told that your husband was in charge of the Lock Hospital ---- "
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand
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