The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-13
VICE COMMISSION
 PRESENTS REPORT
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eiety. and who stop at nothing to gratffy their unnatural lusts. We recommend that such persons be treated as abnormal and anti-social members of society, and their cases disposed of by the courts in accord ance with law after diagnosis and recommendation of the psychopathic board which we hereafter recom- mend.
 The forms of unnatural and calcu- lated stimulation of the sex instinct and passion are many. Those which cated in the following recommenda- tions:
 We recommend that the patronage of all saloons be carefully watched by the police, that the law prohibiting lettering of women be strictly en- forced.
 We recommend that the board of health examine all saloons frequently and that they compel the saloons to observe all sanitary laws to the let ter.
 We recommend that all private booths and side rooms in restaurants, cafes and saloons be forbidden, and that where now existing they be or dered taken down by the authorities.
 The Medical Facts.
 The rapid spread of venerea1 di- sease in Bridgeport. and it's baneful effects on the health of society, were l indicated by the testimony of physi- clans before the commission. Alto gether apart from the moral aspect of the vice situation to them the bet ter control of vice seems necessary for the health of the city.
 We make the following recon mendations:
 That there should be an amend
 
 the reporting of venereal infection to the board of health. The suggestions made by the Hartford commission would, we believe, be quite satisfac- l tory. '9Ehe report could be made suf- iciently descriptive (vviEhout disclos- ing the identity of the person1 and to prevent duplication of the same case even if reported by several physi- clans. Such case should be reported on blanks substantially as follows: CD Date, (2) exact age, (3) sex of patient, (4) name of physician re- porting, (5) names of previous phy- sicians consulted, (61 disease, {7) is diagnosis positive, (S) date of infec- tfon, (91 place of infection, (1O) lions thus far present, CPD to what extent is the patient menace to sO- ciety.
 ssThe report should be made obIiga- tory on the part of the attending physician on penalty off hne.''
 That we urge upon the authorities the need of two public clinics to deal with two serious phases of the social evil:
 GC A venerea. disease clinic should at once be established in which such diseases are diagnosed and ii necessary treated free. CD A psychopatI1ic clinic or board | 4- -H-Ts- with the schools, the department of public charities, the health board, and the courts.
 In the work of the schools, the courts. the charities department and the board of health an increasingly large number of persons is found be- low normal in mental capacity. (3) The home for the feebIe-mind- ed should be enlarged and graded by l the state legislature, and we invite all human and social agencies to aid us in propaganda to bring it before the authorities.
 The Economic Facts. It has been calculated that there are over 27,O00 girls and women in Bridgeport working in gainfuI occu- pations; which means that the greater proportion are employed in factories The temptations which
  girls and women are genuine and pe- culiar.
 1 There is no clear evidence before us that the size of wages has affected l either the number or the character of those who have gone into cIandestine or professional prostitution, yet we feel that employers in Bridgeport careful attention to some situations I in their establishments We have found that the sharp ir- regularity of wages which often ob- tains from season to season has a ten- dency in some industries to make girls discouraged and careless. We recommend that employers pay more attention to the physical envi- ronment of their plants. l We recommend that the employers of the city carry on scientific welfare work in their plants. We are aware l that we are suggesting what may seem difficult if not impossible at 1 this time
 1 We recommend that employers the sexes in their plants. While vice is not common in the factories, there l is much familiarity and in cases re- ported to us, frequent indecency. The Social Facts. We know that all conditions in Bridgeport are abnormal at the pres ent time, and that it would be most unwise to draw some kinds of infer l ences. Yet we are shown even by the abnormal conditions what some ten l dencies really are.
 l There can be no satisfa ctory family l life without privacy. Where this is taken away by insufficient quarters | in the case of the poor, the tempta- ton to find satisfaction or pleasure l in the street questionable resorts is almost uncontro1Iable. At the pres l ent time thousands of families in I Bridgeport are living in cramped and l unsanitary quarters. with all the at- tendant evils of overcrowdfng and the breakdown. of the restraints o1 privacy. A large number of women are living in single bedrooms, with