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British Social Hygiene Council

British organisation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ114416959 ↗
Source-derived summary

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. It was founded in 1914.

History

National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases (NCCVD) was founded in 1914, just days before the beginning of World War I. Its members include doctors, scientists, psychologists, sociologists and 'muscular Christians.' It got government funding until 1929.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “British Social Hygiene Council” is british organisation. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through British, Social and Hygiene, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925, 1914, 1929—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914. For this dossier, British, Social and Hygiene is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q114416959. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1925, 1914 and 1929.

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This entry incorporates text from “British Social Hygiene Council” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.