Social Evil In Chicago
Outline of Study Made By the Commission
Vice Commission of the City of Chicago
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I. COMMITTEE ON EXISTING CONDITIONS.
1. Houses.
a. Number.
b.
Vocation.
c. Type.
d. Owners.
e.
Keepers.
f. Number,
age, previous occupation of inmates.
g. Price,
character and amount of service demanded.
h.
Sanitary conditions.
i.
Character of neighborhood.
j. How are
police rules obeyed.
k. What
are the police relations to the resorts.
l. Social
allurements in resorts,
1.
Music.
2.
Obscene shows.
3.
Liquor.
4.
Dances, etc.
m. Medical
inspection in resorts at present time.
n. Extent
of venereal diseases.
o. Public
and private graft.
p. Robbing
of patrons.
q. The
"Cadet" problem.
r. Extent
of use of cocaine and drugs at present time.
s. Method
of advertising.
2. Assignation houses.
a. Number.
b.
Location.
c.
Character of neighborhood.
d. Methods
of advertising.
e. Sale of
liquors.
3. Hotels.
a. Number.
b.
Location.
c. Prices
for rooms.
d. Prices
of women who solicit for these places.
4. Lake Boats.
5. Picnics.
6. "Kept" women.
7. Manicure parlors.
8. Massage parlors.
9. Turkish baths.
10. Dance Halls.
11. Tenement Houses.
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II COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL EVIL AND SALOON.
1. How the saloon
makes for prostitution.
a.
Saturday night dance.
b. Saloon
dance.
c.
Vaudeville and music in the saloons.
d. Women
in the saloons.
e.
Solicitation.
2. Co-operation
between the saloon and resorts.
a. Resorts
with entrances through saloons.
b. Bed
houses and saloons.
c.
Midnight closing.
d. The
sale of liquor in resorts, sociability; physical influence.
e. Joint
ownership between saloons and resorts.
f. Saloon
keepers and prostitutes.
g. Resort
runners in saloons.
III. COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL EVIL AND POLICE.
1. Efficiency of Police under present conditions.
2. Records.
a.
Character of records desirable to be kept:
1.
Owners of property.
2.
Houses.
3.
Keepers.
4.
Inmates.
b. Should
police officers be permitted to retain such records, or
1.
Should they be filed at headquarters as official matter.
c. Advisability of
establishing a bureau at headquarters for records of entire city, and from which
point, and through which bureau a more or less complete control of the situation
might be had.
3. Inspection.
a. Should police
inspection and surveillance of resorts include a room to room visit at unstated
periods, to
1.
Search for liquor.
2.
Examine into sanitary conditions.
3.
Collect data for reports.
4.
Listen to complaints.
5.
See that rules and regulations of Department are carried out.
4. Protection,
question of :
a. Police protection
of inmates and keepers against disturbance of the order of the places.
b. Should resorts be
guaranteed police protection, when they comply with rules and regulations. The
word "protection' used in its legitimate sense, and not in
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guaranteeing immunity under any circumstances whatever.
c. Preventing tribute
to police.
a. To remain in any district for more than a brief period of time,
b. Should police rules and regulations be framed and displayed in each room of a resort.
IV. COMMITTEE ON SOURCES OF SUPPLY.
1. How much slavery exists among women in Chicago?
2. What is the extent of the "cadet" system; runners?
3. What is the extent of fake marriages?
4. Prostitute's husbands.
5. How are girls secured abroad—from what state or country are they drawn?
6. How are they secured?
7. How are they held?
8. What does the girl get?
9. What does the house get?
10. How much service must she render?
11. How do girls escape?
12. What can be done to stop the importation of girls from abroad? From the city? From the country?
13. What can be done to prevent the traffic in girls?
14. What can be done to furnish a way of escape for girls?
15. What is the
remedy for the "cadet," the fake marriage situation, and the practices of other
deceit, trickery and fraud?
V. COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL EVIL AND CRIME.
1. Contempt for law on the part of those promoting the Social Evil.
2. Relation of
prostitutes to habits,
a.
Whiskey.
b.
Morphine.
c.
Cocaine.
d. Murder.
e. Theft.
3. Are resorts necessary to prevent rape, and violence against children and innocent women?
4. The prostitute's man.
5. The psychological and moral effect of prostitution on the neighborhood.
6. The criminal history of the old prostitute.
7. Remedies.
a. Emasculation.
b. Permanent
confinement.
c. Parole system.
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VI. COMMITTEE ON CHILD PROTECTION AND EDUCATION.
1. Lectures to school children; to boys and girls, offices and stores.
2. Sex hygiene.
3. Venereal diseases.
4. Improper Literature.
5. The stage.
6. Children near sporting houses.
7. Children in relation to segregated prostitution.
8. Children and youths employed in resorts.
VII. COMMITTEE ON RESCUE AND REFORM.
1. Houses for reformed prostitutes.
2. Work for the reformed prostitutes.
3. Plan for getting girls out of debt and out of houses of prostitution.
4. Hospitals for sick prostitutes.
5. Venereal disease hospitals.
6. Maternity homes for pregnant prostitutes; for girls illegitimately pregnant, to see that they do not fall into houses of prostitutes.
7. Homes for
children of prostitutes.
VIII. COMMITTEE ON LITERATURE AND METHODS.
1. Literature:
a. All literature
obtainable in all languages.
b. Seek co-operation
of some research library who handle such literature.
c. Furnish all the
members of the Commission with list of literature covering the various phases of
the subject from time to time, and where such literature may be found
d. Statistics as to
prostitution in relation to crime; to venereal diseases, to illegitimacy.
2. Methods:
a. Methods
employed in other cities and abroad.
b. Methods
proposed but not adopted
IX. COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL QUESTIONS.
1 The harm done by venereal diseases,—directly; indirectly. For example, in relation to blindness and sterility.
2. he extent of venereal disease among professional prostitutes, among casual prostitutes; among "kept" women; among men; among children; among innocent women, and in children's hospitals.
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3. Remedies.
1. Preventive
medication.
2. Silver in the eyes
of newly born children.
3. Sanitation in
houses of prostitution.
4. The registration of
venereal disease.
5. Registration of
prostitutes.
4. Medical aspects of hospital relief of venereal cases: Prostitutes, 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.
