The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-16
CONFERENCE HELD BY MEDICAL
 W0hEN

New York, Sept. 16-The Interna- iOnal Conference of Women Physi- clans opened yesterday at Y. ". c. A hoaduarters. 600 Lexington avenue, and registration of delegates occupied most of the time Women physicians representing 1G foreign nations were present including Russia, Japan and China, and there were 60 Americans from all parts of the United States. The conference will last for six weeks Its object, as, defined by Dr. Anna l.. Brown of New York, chair man of the Social Morality Commit tee of the Y. w. c. A. War Work Council, is to furnish clearing house for such information on the social problem as may be used for a . basis of worldwide constructive re- form
 ''There arc two general problems which must be .ConsIdered.'' said Dr. Brown. 'Thc first Is the general problem of the health of women. Women are proverbial sinners against health. The idea has been Eoundly lodged in their minds. as well as in mons minds, that they are the woa ker vessel. Therefore they assume that they are entitled to special consldcra- ton on every kind of pretexL We seek Co free women from the physical handicaUs which they have inherited or acquired
 "The other problem Is the sex problem. our task is to make an end te prostitution as a social institution" ."
 Among the delcEa tes registered was Dr. Anna ET0utet, Director of the Ho- tel Dieu Hospital. Lyons. France. Ir1an1yfYg- al4iRF .rg7 ,7Tf4..-,c T--,. since the war. Dr. Noutet said that tho experience of active life that has come to the young French girls. par tiCularly to the girls of the upper classes, has made them eager to en- ter the professions, with the result that many of the great professional schools. such as LEcole du Concours Contrales in Paris, have become CO., educational.
 Dr. Tomo Inouye brought tho same testimony as 10 the increasing num- ber of women who are entering the professions in Japan. There are 400 girl students in the Tozio Girls Med icaI school she said. Dr. Inouye Is City Nedica. Inspector in the public schools Of Tokio. She said the Japan csc are paying particular attention to good condition Of eyes and teeth among school children.
 pr. Mary Gordon. Government In spcctor of Womeu's Prisons in Eng land and Wales, said that before the war there were approximately 52.OOO women a year in the 90 prisons un- der her jurisdiction. This number was greatly decreased during the war, due in her opinion to war pro hihition of alcohol The general per centage of crime in England remained about the same during the war. she said. The crime of bigamy increased, due to the shifting male population. There was no apparent decrease in the crime of child neglect.
 A tentative social programme an nounced for the visitors includes q weeS-en5 in Bc-tou with motor trips Ito Wellesley and Harvard. The re- turn will be made by way of Albany and Poughkeepsie. with visits to the State capital and Vassar College. An other weekend will be spent in BaIti- more and Washington, where Johns Hopkins Hospital and Mount Vernon vii be points of special interes.
 An invitation to visit the Women's 8 Medical College in Philadelphia has also been accepted, and the Sunday of that week will be spent at Bryn AIawr College.