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Show Tho Social Evil In .St. Lnnlh. The social evil in St. Louis is coming com-ing into an interesting pha-c. The ordinance in regard to it provides every means for its restriction, which may prove disadvantageous to the par tics concerned, the Mayor, Controller, and the other Court-house ring being, of course, excepted. At n recent meeting of the city authorities, Mr. O'Brien was so bold as to assert that prostitutes, being human, had certain rights which should be respected, and thought that the names of men who frequent houses of so ;ial evil should be registered as well as those who dealt it out. One-third of the money which women of bad repute arc forced to pay-is pay-is not paid into the city treasury for the support of the hospital professedly professed-ly for their benefit, and a petition signed by one hundred prostitutes lias been handed in, in which one of the examining physicians is charged with visiting houses while intoxicated and abusing tho inmates. Altogether it seems that vigilance must be exercised over thc men as well as tho women. St. Louis has noj yet found the solution solu-tion of that great question, S. '. Bulletin. |
