Show AFTER AFIER ILLEGAL MEDICAL SHOPS Postoffice Department Investigations gatons of the Disreputable Disreputable Disreputable table Concerns VICTORY FOR GOOD MORALS X Notified of nf tIme the til nl of ot P Fake Doctor Washington n March 25 Ordem s shave have ha 1 just been heet Issued by Po Postmaster t a General Cortelyou Instructing I hi p postmasters at nt New and anel Brooklyn Brook onI lyn to to tore re refuse to admit to the tIme mats inai's the lie nl advertisements u of some two fifty t ry-t wn Illegal m offices located In iii those cities and amid also l o to to t de IC deliver dC liver 1 mall matter received addressed to the fictitious and n assumed names under which th these e concerns S hide hi identity n c-n I I ty For FOI some 11 time him past JIlt th the department has had inspectors working in NewYork Now New oW York 1011 gathering the tho nci necessary y an evi j e d deuce dence to close the n malls to the these u pretended pro pre JI tended The thoroughness of l tho the Inspectors Inspectors' work has been hlen gratifyIng gratify gratify- j Ing to tho the department In iii the results that hn have l been fn obtained It I is 19 believed be bf 1 that thal practically all aU of ot th thin criminal crim crim- Inn inal concerns of of this character in In these cities cItes have hn been un covered ell e Victory for fO l The outcome is it r regarded ar e b by the flit department de de- l- l a as a n distinct victory victor for good gond morals for 0 It I holl holds that If th these 1 concerns concerns con con- on-I on cerns cannot annot I use the malls or 0 thu the pr for O tho time dissemination o of their advertisements and anh literature their In Influence Lii- Lii fluence will wil be bo considerably circumscribed circum scribed and the department hopes that the tl action taken n may many result In lii the i pe- pe f- f closing of their offices The rIme action that has haR been tal taken n at It New York and Brooklyn I 1 Is 11 in lii In line lino with th time the efforts made matl by the postmaster ter general In iii II Boston and Philadelphia to enforce the law against this class elas Il of concerns In March alch last laRt considerable work evidence was obtained oh- oh which enabled the department to close cioe E the tIl malls mails to about thirty of this Boston kind of concerns operating in I I I i I II I Publishers Notified The Thc postmaster was vas dl directed to re refuse rC- rC rc- rc fuse to deliver mall mail mal to such parties and and the publishers of newspapers w were ere re adI advised advised ad ad- o of th the Illegal character of their heir advertisements and amid Informed that fu future fU fUi ture lUll issues of such papers carrying the Ow I offensIve e ad advertisements would be tull de denied t de- de ull nied under the law n admission lon to time tw malls The Time publishers Immediately ex w excluded f- f eluded all ni such advertisements from the columns of their papers paper After the department had I- I ed c In lit I its efforts ports In iii Boston Inspectors were tere placed at nt work worl In Philadelphia and 1111 as the result evidence vl c was tas ob obtained oh- oh t tamed lne which in lii September last last en enabled enabled en- en the tt department to take action similar to that hint tal taken takemi n in Boston o ton against t sonic some thirteen such offices Time The departments department's he work in ni Philadelphia practically closed all al cf ct these concerns which con conducted offices In that lint cl city The rhe condition of affairs which hl Tins has do developed unc under r the til departments department's In Investigations iii- iii 1 in lii II all al of or th the cities I Is re reported reported re- re lc- lc ported to tn hove have been bEn appalling The The department de tie- says MrM that It I found In a lar large number of or instances those engaged In conducting the these e offices hn have criminal records S and nr are nrc hope dope fiends Many Criminal Cn Cases c I In Iii Boston one of the concerns excluded ex cx- x by hy the thic tit department from roin the malls was supposed to t b be the he office which performed the fatal operation on oil the young woman Susan Geal r v. v the suit sull case caRe murder victim On On 01 01 the doctors whom the lie d department found I identified with h several 81 of or th these In Boston was also connected with wih the Susan Gooey Geary case casp The rIme department de tie says nays the lie number of oC deaths dalh that have ha been cause caused In iii these offices officer can never be known Thi Th The volume of or business done llone lv hv these concerns was vas large It I was wa said that as high as ns twenty criminal op 0 orations a da day were performed In Iii of these offices and that the he Income sometimes rn ranged d as ns high as ag 2000 a tsee week iX- iX |