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‘convalescent small-pox
patients’ on board the
Dreadnought hospital ship.
The young men – aged
between fifteen and twenty –
were in the habit of ‘standing
on barges and exposing
themselves’, driving the Revd
F. Clarke to write to the
police authorities.
During the trial Vinten’s
mother explained her son was
‘not a disobedient lad’, and
was about to enter ‘upon a