Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-19

any accurate total Thirty of the
 most tawdry resorts. it is pointed out,
 earn in the aggregate at least two
 million dollars annually, exclusive of the enormous profit derived from the
 illicit sale of liquor and tobacco at
 estimate of the earnings of the itin- erant women of the streets is, of course, out of the question.
 The total cost to society, the report emphasizes, is staggerlngIy enormous, taking no account of that greatest
 of all costs-disease In this regard
 the report instances an examination
 of 142 wayward girls in the Bedford reformatory, all of them under IS years of age. Ordinary clinical exam ination had shown less than 21 per cent. of them infected. More thorough
 tests brought out the startling fact that fully 90 per cent. were diseased. Unlike the fallen woman herself, who is described as coming prepond- eranuy from the ranks of those en- gagged in unskilled occupations, her customers represent every grade of 1 society"
 Ignorant immigrants Cowed by Brutes It is impossible" says the report, i "tO estimate the number of men and boys who become customers in vice resorts in Manhattan during the course of one year. On the basis of t'data actually on file, it may be as sumed that inmates of vice resorts and women on the street trade with between 10 and 15 men per day. This statement is corroborated by data se- cured by the vice commission in Chi | cago, where the average was found to be Is per day for IS inmates in one house, covering a period of g months, as well as by data obtained in Syra- 1 cuse, N. Y, where the average mum Der of customers entertained by one inmate during a period of six months
 was 12. Taking the lower figure as the basis of calculation, if the 15,00O professional prostitutes of Manhat- | tan entertain ten guests apiece, the customers total at least 15,000 persons every day"
 With reference to white slavery per SC MT. Kneeland deprecates the prev aIent idea of physical detention, lock- ed doors, barred windows, and elab- crates on the more minister methods
 of enslavement-in intimidation and sen timental loyalty of the unfortunates | to their man masters. Uneducated, with little or no comprehension of her legal rights or of the powers which could be invoked to aid her." he says "often an immigrant or at least 8 stranger, she is soon cowed by the
 brute to whom she has mistakenly at tached herself. Should she make an 0lIOfC LO Dredk away SII6 Is k'ul and hemmed in
 Children Under It's EIishting Influ- ence.
 The report embodies what is prob ably the most complete census of vice
 resorts ever taken. There are 1,606 of all grades enumerated. with their re
 speetive locations by precincts. The figures vary widely from those Of the police: but for this discrepancy no l criticism is made of the department or of the city authorities.
 Explaining the various kinds of re sorts. the report lays stress on the menace of those in tenement houses. Iny yesIigation showed that q such places were In tenements where, all told, nearly five hundred children un- der Is years of age were playing about the halls. Strangely enough, a deli eatessen store is described as perhaps the most notorious meeting place for traffickers in wemen-4
 According to the repet~t practically all of the resorts founded on woIn- ans shame are conducted by women who have risen" from the ranks. Far