Josephine Butler

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVII, Issue 3, 1 July 1928, Page 140

Josephine Butler

In the "Nursing Times'' we read of the centenary of this remarkable woman, who did so much for the cause of women wheu, after many years of constant endeavour, she succeeded m getting repealed the Contagious Diseases Act, which was so terribly unfair to women.

Young and beautiful, as seen m the charming picture given m the "Nursing Times," and happily married, she early took up the great principle that then could only be on standard of moral conduct for men and women, and it is due

to her influence and work that so much has been done to promote the cause of morality and the abolition of the white slave traffic— a cause which has now been taken up by the League of Nations.

Although not an active fighter for women's suffrage, Mrs. Butler was convinced that women would never be granted full personal rights and status until they were politically enfranchised, and she took a part m demanding that. A great demonstration was made m Manchester on the occasion of the Josephine Butler centenary.