British Social Hygiene Council

British Social Hygiene Council (BSHC, until 1925 the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, NCCVD) was a British organization dedicated to eradicating venereal diseases and educating the public about them.{{Cite journal |last=Bond |first=C. J. |date=1925-07-11 |title=British Social Hygiene Council |journal=British Medical Journal |volume=2 |issue=3367 |pages=88 |issn=0007-1447 |pmc=2226850}}{{Cite journal |last=Weatherall |first=R. |date=1947-12-01 |title=British Social Hygiene Council: International School in Social Biology |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=160 |issue=4075 |pages=803–804 |doi=10.1038/160803a0 |pmid=20273002 |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free |bibcode=1947Natur.160..803W }}{{Cite journal |last=Scoggins |first=Ann |date=1977 |title=The Influence of the British Social Hygiene Council on the Development of Social Biology and Its Subsequent Introduction Into the Educational Curricula |url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ180100 |journal=Biology and Human Affairs |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Davidson |first=Roger |url=https://brill.com/display/book/9789004333314/B9789004333314-s006.xml |title=Images of Social Hygiene: VD Propaganda in Interwar Scotland |date=2000-01-01 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-33331-4 |language=en}} It was founded in 1914.{{Cite journal |last1=Horder |last2=Walker |first2=Kenneth M. |last3=Nabarro |first3=David |last4=Rorke |first4=Margaret |last5=Shiels |first5=T. Drummond |date=1935-03-23 |title=Youth and Social Hygiene |journal=British Medical Journal |volume=1 |issue=3872 |pages=619 |issn=0007-1447 |pmc=2459955}}{{Cite journal |last=SHIELS |first=T. DRUMMOND |title=Citizenship in Relation to Social Hygiene |date=1934 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45208209 |journal=The Journal of State Medicine |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=76–83 |jstor=45208209 |issn=2633-5468}}

History

National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases (NCCVD) was founded in 1914, just days before the beginning of World War I.{{Cite book |last=Zimmerman |first=Jonathan |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Too_Hot_to_Handle/Z3CYDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=social+hygiene+united+kingdom&pg=PA201&printsec=frontcover |title=Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education |date=2016-09-13 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-17366-5 |language=en}} Its members include doctors, scientists, psychologists, sociologists and 'muscular Christians.' It got government funding until 1929.{{Cite book |last=Manderson |first=Lenore |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Sickness_and_the_State/1C0rWNi50FgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=social+hygiene+united+kingdom&pg=PA197&printsec=frontcover |title=Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870-1940 |date=1996-06-13 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-56008-5 |language=en}}

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