Excerpt from Report From the Select Committee on Contagious Diseases Acts: Together With the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix After an inquiry, which has extended over a period almost unprecedented in the history of Parliamentary Committees, your Committee are in a position to present their Report. Your Committee were first appointed in June 1879, on the motion of the Secretary of State for War, for the purpose of inquiring into the administra tion, Operation, and effect of the Contagious Diseases Acts 1866-1869, and they were also empowered to receive evidence concerning Similar systems in the British Colonies, or in other countries, and of reporting whether the Acts should be maintained, amended, extended, or repealed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.