- When Dr. Beatrice Barlow, who has recently been appointed to the city health commission, disregards a warning about denouncing as unsafe and unsanitary a tenement which Mayor Glynn owns, she is fired. After learning that the city's newspaper is also owned by Glynn, Dr. Barlow writes to the governor and is granted a hearing the next month. Upon finding a case of smallpox in the tenement, Dr. Barlow unsuccessfully attempts to have it quarantined. When she puts up a quarantine sign herself, a health official struggles with her, but a man appears and thrashes the official. Although the mayor and his cronies hide a man in her hotel room to compromise her, the man who helped her learns of the plot, and it is foiled. When the tenement catches fire, the man rescues Dr. Barlow, but she is then lured to a sanitarium and imprisoned. The man finds her, arrests her keepers and brings her to the hearing in time to present evidence against the mayor, who is imprisoned. Finally the man reveals himself to be the governor's private secretary.—Pamela Short
- Beatrice Barlow has recency been appointed to a place on the health commission of her city. She is advised by Joel Stevens, an old political war-horse, drawing a salary as "health inspector," to loaf on the job and enjoy herself. But Beatrice takes her duties seriously. She turns in a report on a tenement house where the law has continually been violated, recommending drastic and expensive changes. Stevens gets a glimpse of the report and urges the girl to tear it up. "The owner of that block is Mayor Glynn," he warns her, "Do you want to get fired?" Beatrice submits her statement, and is promptly discharged. The young doctor finds herself powerless to make the facts public, as the mayor owns the only newspaper of any consequence in town. Knowing that the governor may remove incompetent mayors, she sends her statement to him. A few days later, Dr. Barlow finds a case of smallpox in the same tenement. The head of the health department, fearing the wrath of the mayor, refuses to quarantine the building. Beatrice attempts to put up an official quarantine sign. The health officer interferes, and a strange young man appears and thrashes the officer. The tool of the boss hastens to the mayor. He finds that dignity completely upset. He has just received word from the governor that charges have been filed against him by Beatrice Barlow, M.D., and that the hearing has been set for the following month. "That girl has the goods on me," says the mayor. "We must get her in bad somehow." That same night, driving about town in the mayor's automobile Glynn and his dupe plot how they will ruin Beatrice's reputation. They choose to hold their consultation in the car because there will be less risk there of their being overheard. But they reckon without the husky young man, Beatrice's champion, who rides with them, a stowaway in the tonneau. The young stranger forestalls the scheme before Dr. Barlow can be compromised. A few days later, the tenement belonging to Glynn catches fire. Beatrice, attending a sick woman on the third floor, is rescued with difficulty by the enterprising stranger. While he dashes back into the flaming building to save a child, hirelings of Glynn's seize the fainting girl, bundle her into a limousine and drive off. The only witness to the abduction is a small boy. All that night and next day the young man hunts for the girl. At last, stumbling upon little Patsy Burns, his worst fears are confirmed. By clever detective work he locates Beatrice's prison, liberates the girl, and handcuffs the captors. The following day, Glynn, with Beatrice and her ally both appearing against him, is convicted in the presence of the governor. The stranger, the head of the state admits, is his own private secretary. The grafting mayor and his accomplices go to the penitentiary.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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