lock hospital:

Outdated name for a VD clinic.

ETYMOLOGY: A quarantine hospital for the treatment of venereal-diseases, the Lock Lazar-House, in 15 ^th century Southwark. The term is mentioned by Captain Francis Grose in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811).

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