In Gay Paree.
AN ORGANISED CRIME.
THE SOCIAL EVIL.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] ilJNiTjfii/ Press Association.] (Beceived 8.0 a.m.) Paris, December 13.
The police enquiry into the Montariiis case constitutes an amazing revelation.
Letters and papers have been s( i::ed which sfibw that the agency had dealings with 15,000 women, who come in contact by means of advertising agents in provincial towns.
A man and two women •accomplices ha.ve baen arrested. 'lhree houses belonging to the organisation have been discovered in Paris.
A dead servant girl's case has revealed to the police that the women appearing received drugs through the post and subsequently came to Paris to have an illegal operation performed.
MIDWIVES' COMPLICITY
TO BE DEALT WITH BY LAW. The Senate will shortly discuss s Bill' to regulate lying-in hospitals. Midlives' complicity inj abortion wii: be'made a criminal offence. It includes those dealing with drug advertisements and also those publishing recommendations. ~ ■,','■ ••*•.'
Abortion statistics reveal an alarming prevalence.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 89, 15 December 1913, Page 5
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