рабочееMorals in Memphis—Official Recognition
and Regulation of Prostitution.
City Medical Inspection Department,
Mayor's Office, Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 30, '64.
[Private Circular.]
All wonten of the town, in the city of Memphis and
vicinity, whether living in boarding houses, singly, or
as kept mistresses, are notified that they must
hereafter be registered and make out weekly
certificates.
Women who can show that they are living
privately with a responsible citizen of good character
will be exempted from the weekly medical inspections
by calling weekly between 4 and 5 o'clock P.M., at the
Mayor's office, and paying the regular hospital fee.
No woman residing in a boarding house will be
registered as a kept woman.
All other than such kept women, whether
practicing prostitution regularly or occasionally, be
ordered to call on the city medical inspector at the
private office, second story over the confectionary
store on the corner of Main and Union streets,
entrance through the store, or at No. 21 Union street,
on any afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock, before the
10th of October, and receive a medical certificate, for
which two dollars and ninety cents will be charged.
Or, women can receive the medical certificate
at their homes by requesting the medical inspector to
visit them, and paying one dollar for the visit. A note
directed to lock box 201, Post office, giving the street
and number, will be attended to.
On receiving the medical certificate, a ticket
and registry must be called for personally at the
Mayor's office, for which ten dollars will be charged.
The money received goes to the support of the
private female wards in the new city hospital on the
corner of Exchange street and Front Row, into which
registered women are admitted at any time for any
disease upon showing their weekly certificate, are
afforded all the privacy and comfort of a home, and
nursed by an experienced matron and female nurses,
free from any cost or charge whatever.
Street walking, soliciting, stopping or talking
with men on the streets; buggy or horseback riding for
pleasure through the city in daylight; wearing a show
flash or immodest dress in public; any language or
conduct which attracts attention; visiting the public
squares, the New Memphis Theater, or other resort
of ladies, are prohibited and forbidden.
Good conduct will insure relief from
detective or police visits, exposure or loss, and a
violation of the orders will inevitably incur
punishment.
Any woman of the town, public or private,
found in the city or vicinity after the 10th day of
October, 1864, without her certificate of registry and
medical or exemption certificate, will be arrested by
the police and punished.
This circular is intended for the information
of the women only, and must not be shown or given
to men. By order of the Mayor,
John B. Gray, Register.
City Medical Insp. Department.
GALVESTON WEEKLY NEWS, April 12, 1865, p. 2, c. 6
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and Regulation of Prostitution.
City Medical Inspection Department,
Mayor's Office, Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 30, '64.
[Private Circular.]
All wonten of the town, in the city of Memphis and
vicinity, whether living in boarding houses, singly, or
as kept mistresses, are notified that they must
hereafter be registered and make out weekly
certificates.
Women who can show that they are living
privately with a responsible citizen of good character
will be exempted from the weekly medical inspections
by calling weekly between 4 and 5 o'clock P.M., at the
Mayor's office, and paying the regular hospital fee.
No woman residing in a boarding house will be
registered as a kept woman.
All other than such kept women, whether
practicing prostitution regularly or occasionally, be
ordered to call on the city medical inspector at the
private office, second story over the confectionary
store on the corner of Main and Union streets,
entrance through the store, or at No. 21 Union street,
on any afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock, before the
10th of October, and receive a medical certificate, for
which two dollars and ninety cents will be charged.
Or, women can receive the medical certificate
at their homes by requesting the medical inspector to
visit them, and paying one dollar for the visit. A note
directed to lock box 201, Post office, giving the street
and number, will be attended to.
On receiving the medical certificate, a ticket
and registry must be called for personally at the
Mayor's office, for which ten dollars will be charged.
The money received goes to the support of the
private female wards in the new city hospital on the
corner of Exchange street and Front Row, into which
registered women are admitted at any time for any
disease upon showing their weekly certificate, are
afforded all the privacy and comfort of a home, and
nursed by an experienced matron and female nurses,
free from any cost or charge whatever.
Street walking, soliciting, stopping or talking
with men on the streets; buggy or horseback riding for
pleasure through the city in daylight; wearing a show
flash or immodest dress in public; any language or
conduct which attracts attention; visiting the public
squares, the New Memphis Theater, or other resort
of ladies, are prohibited and forbidden.
Good conduct will insure relief from
detective or police visits, exposure or loss, and a
violation of the orders will inevitably incur
punishment.
Any woman of the town, public or private,
found in the city or vicinity after the 10th day of
October, 1864, without her certificate of registry and
medical or exemption certificate, will be arrested by
the police and punished.
This circular is intended for the information
of the women only, and must not be shown or given
to men. By order of the Mayor,
John B. Gray, Register.
City Medical Insp. Department.
GALVESTON WEEKLY NEWS, April 12, 1865, p. 2, c. 6
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