Note 24 — III.—LAWS FOR REPRESSION.

For the tendency of similar legislation in England, see Saturday Review, January 8th, 1870:—“The law accepts the fact of a contagious disease which happens to exist in a human subject only as the law accepts the fact of a bad drain or an unhealthy factory, and deals with it accordingly. In neither case is either the woman or the nuisance treated as a moral agent, but as a physical fact.”—[Editor.]