The Republican journal., 1920-11-04

( ulSeaSe, girl who became a prOStl
| tute because she was inadequately
| looked after when illegitimately preg-
nant, and had to earn her living as
best she could, possibly you are to be
blamed as well as pitied, when your
! son dies OF locomotor -ataXia alter five
| or ten years of insanity. Then again,
it may be that somebody elses son,
having previously cOnsorted with the
same Or similar prostitute, will mar
ry your daughter--and she will have
surgical operations instead OF chill
dren." Strong writing, :. 5 tile book
let WAS She From Your Home TOWN.
But 1t seems to offer some pretty val
id reasons why the public should be
interested in the proposed Home and
Hospital for which the Florence Crit
tenton League of Compassion is now
just launching Building Fund Cam
paign.
Inc estimated cost OF the kind OF
plant the society desires to establish
four buildings to care for the differ
ent types OF cases, which shall be
situated in suburb not too far from
the city to have easy access to the
best medical service and to the courts
is about 100000, toward which some
| 100000 has already been .ubscribed.
Inc need is clear. For many years
his organization mas made a special
study OF street girls, and they ar,
IulnIlng out that two thousand illegit-
Mate children are porn each year in
Massachusetts and that about eight
per cent, of these unmarried mothers
Ave Nenereal disease. AT present
there is no agency to care for these
et44s winch Is equipped with sufficient
los---9l accommodation, with grounds
watch afford room for fresh anu
exercise, and with an adequate medi-
cal sta The f &c Crittanton
League claims that it has as assets
which should cause it to be entrusted
with this gra7 duty % staff, both
social and medical, now well-grounded
III experience to work out III new and
ample surroundings the most perfect
care for unmarried mothers and all
matters pertinent TO the subject (2)
President and Board who, with the
SIAN DelIeVe III the ylJdI AID ii -le,.I-
: necessity OF this job and g. an
organization firmly convinced of the
importance OF educating New Eng
land in this matter OF the unmarried
oman who is spre-~der OF disease
The most perfect institution in the
world for the care OF unmarried moth
ers is therefore what they are now re-
solved to build. 1t will be
nome on the cottage plan, with ade-
quate hospital facilities, gardens in
which the women may work TO keep
themselves in physical and mental
health, and it will have one building
segregated for the treatment OF vene-
real cases.
The absolute Necessary for such all
institution has been brought out by
the patrol work done on the Common
for a number of years now. Latterly
this work has been under the super
vision OF the United States lnterue-
parlmental Social Hygiene Board, the
Florence Crittenton League assisting
by regularly supplying the salaries OF
one or more workers. The Federal Gov
ernment'S relation to the matter is
result of the war and OF the necessity
which mas been felt Of protecting the
health of soldiers and sailors. But
the Florence Crittenuon League was
doing preventive work through its
street matron, Mrs. Thomas II. Tyler,
long before there was any war.
In the Survey OF July Il, 1913 may
be found an interesting description OF
Mrs. Tylers work together with some
stories about the various girls which
she was wont to take home with her,
quietly and unobtrusively, TO the
apartment in the enWay for which
the Florence Crittenton League paid
the rent, when she found them ON the
verge of wrong step in the Parks, at
the theatres and cafes. Mrs. Tyler
had no distinctive dress or badge and
did her work by sheer force of friend
Illness. Her entire formula of service
was embraced in the phrase the girl
saw | was her friend