The social evil in Chicago : a study of existing conditions with recommendations by the Vice commission of Chicago, a municipal body appointed by the mayor and the City council of the city of Chicago, and submitted as its report to the mayor and City council of Chicago.

  • Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission.
Date:
1911
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Credit: The social evil in Chicago : a study of existing conditions with recommendations by the Vice commission of Chicago, a municipal body appointed by the mayor and the City council of the city of Chicago, and submitted as its report to the mayor and City council of Chicago. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. Remedies. a. Preventive medication. b. Silver in the eyes of newly born children. c. Sanitation in houses of prostitution. d. The registration of venereal disease. e. Registration of prostitutes. 4. Medical aspects of hospital relief of venereal cases: Prosti- tutes, men, women and children. 5. Laboratory measures for the control of syphilis, gonorrhoea. 6. Inheritance. 7. Environment. 8. Sexual history, especially with relation to conception. 9. Medical aspects of emasculation of criminals. a. The question of defectives, especially degenerates and sexual perverts. 10. The prevention of conception by prostitutes. 11. Sterility among prostitutes. 12. The illegitimate child; its chance of living. 13. The registration of maternity hospitals, homes and baby farms. 14. Psychology of the system. X. Committee on Law and Legislation. 1. The laws of other countries in relation to prostitution. 2. The underlying principles of police power—devise a legal basis for a control which probably will conflict with the lines of decisions of the courts of this country. 3. Methods suggested will be referred to this committee in order that this committee may make them conform to the broad principles of police power for which the Commission may stand; especially, that they investigate present laws which should be repealed. 4. New laws to be enacted by the Legislature. 5. Treatment of children as witnesses. 6. A Commission for the control of prostitution with a certain amount of Legislative power. 7. , Laws controlling segregation, regulation and registration. 8. Laws making venereal disease a contagious disease, and under this provision transferring the entire question to health authorities. 9. Laws with reference to the legitimatizing of the illegitimate child. 10. Hygiene and sanitation. 11. Laws to prevent the detention of prostitutes for debt.