Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-10-27
SOCIAL LEPERS
CURED BY CITY
Mayor Hubbard Submits Re-
port on Moral Cleanup Or
dered by Officials.
TREAT OVER TWO HUNDRED
Complete Record Shows All
of Inmates No Longer
Menace to Society.
VICIOUS REPORT UNF0UNDED
Oklahoma Newspaper Story
Rcfuted by Facts; Crusade
Proves Successful.
TREAT OVER TWO HUNDRED
VICIOUS REPORT UNFOUNDED

OS the ia woRen and 80 men
treated in the detention camp fol-
lowing the public health cleanup OF
Tulsa. every one has been released
following a blood test made by the
state board OF health, showing that
they were free from disease or be-
yond the period of Contagion, accorjN
ing TO report just made by, Mayor
c. II. Hubbard and Chief OF Police
Alien TO the surgeon general OF the
army.
The official report of tho detcn-
ton camp. complete records Of which
we're kept from the first day of its
opera ton, shows that over 200 i'm
moral women and men were Kept bn
detention, their blood tests taken by
PHYSICIANS OF the city health de-
lartment, and three "shots" Of sal
varasen. n treatment similar to
"6OG," administered by corps Of
physicians. After being treated they
were kept in confinement under strict
military guard. until their blood
proved that they were no longer a
menace to the public. then they were
raroled to their relatives and
friends
role and they, or the persons re-
sponsib,e for them, are reporting
weekly as TO their conduct. These
records show that more than so per
cent OF these women, picked up by
the police on the streets OF Tulsa
we're residents Of the various cities
and towns OF Missouri, Kansas, Ar
Kansas and Texas.
The Tulsa women, former inmates
OF the detention camp. are compare
lively few in number. and are still
reporting at the offices of the health
department every week, and prac-
t!cally every one OF these women are
still awaiting orders to leave for the
munition factories In the east that
they may earn living in a com
munity where their past is not held
against them and thus not be forced
to return to their former degraded
mode Of life again.
City Has Made Good.
Despite the salacious and un-
=. founded reported, vice conditions in
Tulsa have never been placed under
martial law. The detention camp
originated as the result OF a general
order from the war department, af-
fecting all the cities OF the United
States as general health measure
In times of war.
Tulsa vice crusaders have handled
more people than all the remaining
cities OF Oklahoma combined. and
the records show that more than
80 per cent of these immoral char
acters were men and women with
police records in other cities, driven
out Of the towns of the southwest
md 1npnnp1 Tn1go
easiest way of handling them.
The present administration sue
ceeded in cleaning up the city,
ana are still keeping up a strict
enforcement OF the work by a daily
and nightly survey OF the hotels and
rooming houses and places previously
inhabited by these people
When the Detection camp came
INTO being n dragnet of the city dis
closed thirty-six immoral women,
VINO were taken to this
place Of detention for medical
the syphilis treatment at cost of
$3.50 per treatment. Food. lodging
and enforced police guards made the
detention camp an unusual drain
on the city administration. and as
there was no funds provided in the
city budget loan of 32,500 was Sc
cured from a local philanthropist to
meet the expenses OF the institution.
Tulsa Paid Own Way.
During 1917 the government has
expended SS5,0O0,000 in fighting the
social diseases in the new army
4ulsa met the expense of the vice
crusade without any governmental
Sld whatever, and while the city is
IN better condition morally at
present than perhaps ever before
SINCE 1t was founded, the crusade
against vice will be continued. the
uetention camp will be resumed as
soon as II is available at the con-
cluslon OF the influenza epidemic,
ana tulsa will go on as before, ex-
lending a helping hand to the cities
VI me entire southwest helping them
Hd themselves OF their objectionab BILE
.haracters and making an effort to
"1nStorm them into useful citizens.
Nhen the detention camp was
opened the aid of the war depart
meht was promised by military of
ail' aicial' In obtaining good salaried po-
SluohS IN essential war industries
tor the paroled men and women
mmeNed up in the cleanup campaign.
tHe detention camp was soon filled
VI tHe INMATES
oelng pronounced cured hy the ply
acians, and were only held pending
governmental orders as to their dis
poSah These orders never came
IuISa never has had the support
!rLromised her. After much effort on
ule part OF the mayor and his CO.
"orNers, and extensive inquiry on the
gart Of the health department, Mayor
lunhard sent the following telegram
" " senator Robert L. owen to take
we matter up with the surgeon
generals office: "ITon. Robert u
CC"cn, l, s. Senator, Washington, d.
- what disposition can be made OF
Women parolcA from the treatment
as prescribed by the surgeon general
tor Venereal Diseases We have 25
r more awaiting parole. now past
N'' Infection stage Please take
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