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REMEDIES 235
of the police authorities, thinks would help
materially to remove the worst phases of this
trade. For myself, I would not put my name
to any recommendation that would involve
putting unfortunate women into the hands of
men doctors. The thing to me is monstrous,
shocking, and cruel. But why not employ
women doctors ? They are the persons who
should deal with their own sex. Men doctors
are often simply impossible and hrutal in
their dealings with these poor women. We
must have women doctors, appointed by the
various Governments.
REMEDIES SUGGESTED BY MB. WILLIS
1. A law should be passed by Parliament
empowering the police to arrest procurers or
" pimps " (whether men or women) who are
known to the police as such, on suspicion of
being white slave traffickers.
2. Men and women leaving this country for
the East or other foreign ports to travel abroad
with girls for suspected immoral purposes to
be compelled (when required to do so) to give
their names and addresses, occupations, and
destination ; to produce evidence of the age
of, and their authority over, such girls ; and
generally to satisfy the police controlling the
white slave traffic as to their bona fides.
3. The law to be amended respecting first
offenders for procuring women for immoral
purposes ; such offenders to receive, on conviction,
one year's hard labour. Eor the