A lock hospital was an establishment that specialised in treating sexually transmitted diseases. They operated in Britain and its colonies and territories...

The London Lock Hospital was the first voluntary hospital for venereal disease. It was also the most famous and first of the Lock Hospitals which were...

The Lock Hospital for Women was a hospital in Glasgow for women suffering from venereal disease. The Glasgow lock hospital was established in 1805 at Rottenrow...

The Westmoreland Lock Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Loc Westmoreland) was a hospital for venereal disease originally located at Donnybrook and later moved...

Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies...

(Contagious Diseases Acts) and medical discourse and institutions (London Lock Hospital and Asylum). The rights and privileges of Victorian women were limited...

Fantome Island Lock Hospital and Lazaret Sites is a heritage-listed former leper colony at Fantome Island, one of the Palm Island group in the Aboriginal...

The island and the neighbouring Dorre Island were locations for a lock hospital in the early 1900s.: 58–61  It is located at the north-western corner...

care. Specialized hospitals include trauma centers, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals, geriatric hospitals, and hospitals for specific medical...

declared to be infected, she would be confined in what was known as a lock hospital until she recovered or her sentence was completed. Men suspected of...