THE CRIMINAL DOCTOR.
Even science has prostituted itself to aid the Vice Trust collect its tithes from the lost women.
In the South side “redlight” district about ten physicians who are graduated from good schools have sold themselves to the lords of vice, crime and sin.
These men are employed to examine the women inmates of the houses to see if they are suffering from diseases of a venereal nature that might sow the seed of death in thousands of men.
This practice is also carried on in the other “redlight” districts.
It is the biggest farce in the whole system. It is a criminal perversion of science.
It has to the resort keeper an advertising value. The word is sent forth that his girls are “healthy,” or the man who accompanies her to her room, sees stuck in a prominent place a certificate signed by a physician declaring he has examined her and found her free from venereal afflictions.
It is a terrible and criminal deception.
Those physicians are supposed to give each girl a personal, clinical examination each week.
That is rarely done.
For this “examination” these girls are taxed fifty cents a week and given signed certificates. Often they do not see the physician for months at a time, yet they receive their certificates.
The physicians making a living at this terrible exercise of their sacred profession are slaves of the trust. They sold their manhood to receive the position. To the trust they give back a large part of the money taken from these unfortunate victims.
This graft, is said by those acquainted with the subject, to reach $15,000 a year!