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IX. No women without male escorts should be permitted in saloons.

X. No professional or paid escorts for women should be permitted in any saloon.

XI. No solicitation for drinks or for prostitution purposes by men or women should be permitted in any saloon.

XII. No immoral or vulgar dances or entertainment should be given in any room connected with saloons.

XIII. The ordinances prohibiting wine rooms should be strictly enforced and any attempt to provide booths, screens, curtains about tables in rear rooms of saloons should be immediately suppressed.

XIV. All connections leading to rooms over saloons from any part of saloon should be immediately and permanently closed.

XV. The violation of any of these rules and regulations should be sufficient to secure the permanent revocation of a saloon license. XVI. We recommend that no intoxicating liquor be sold at any public dance..

XVII. We recommend that an ordinance be passed providing for a license fee of Fifty Dollars annually for the privilege of operating a public dance hall and also that a corresponding Department of Inspection be provided.1

XVI. Prostitutes who desire to avail themselves of the opportunity, or who are arrested and convicted on charges, should be sent to an industrial home with hospital accommodations. To this end such an institution should be established,

XVII. Semi-delinquent girls should be segregated from delinquents and more enlightened methods of care and education be given them. They should not be associated with prostitutes or semi-professional prostitutes.

XVIII. A Municipal Detention Home for Women should be established, controlled by probation officers.

XIX. The City Authorities should see to it that immigrants arriving at the railroad station are protected and, if necessary, escorted to their destination within the city.

1See Exhibit O.

XX. Municipal dance halls should be established, properly policed and supervised.

XXI. The city ordinances regarding moving picture shows should be revised in such a way as to provide for the presentation of pictures in well lighted halls.

XXII. A municipal lodging house should be established for women. XXIII. Wards should be established in the city hospitals for the treatment of venereal diseases.

XXIV. All hospitals receiving city funds in part or in whole should be obliged to treat cases of venereal disease.

XXV. We recommend that the municipality secure a farm on which a trade school and hospital 'could be established to which professional prostitutes could be committed on an indeterminate sentence.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE CORPORATION COUNSEL.

I. The city ordinances relating to houses of prostitution should be enforced.

II. The city ordinances prohibiting advertisements purporting to treat and cure venereal diseases should be enforced.

III. Daily papers that publish such advertisements should be prosecuted.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

I. Accurate monthly reports on all places in the City of Chicago where immoral and dissolute persons congregate, should be made to the General Superintendent of Police by inspectors of all police divisions.

II. If any inspector, captain or officer fails to report to the General Superintendent of Police all places where immoral and dissolute persons congregate, as suspicious or otherwise, he should be reduced in rank or dismissed from the service.

III. Inspectors of police should immediately report to the General Superintendent of Police all known assignation hotels and suspected. places of like character and these places should be immediately suppressed.

IV. When complaints are received by the General Superintendent of Police, he should have them investigated by officers directly connected with his private office, and a report should be made to him direct at the earliest possible moment.

V. A special morals police squad should form a part of the police force of the city.

VI. We recommend that women officers be added to the police force, whose duty should be to render assistance, to women or girls throughout the city, especially at all railroad stations or other places where inexperienced women are liable to need help. We also recommend that some of these women officers be able to speak foreign languages.

VII. Police officers should be compelled to designate whether or not an offender was charged with street walking, when arrests are made under Section 270 of the Criminal Code, and Sections 1476 and 1454 of the City Ordinances.

VIII. The General Superintendent of Police should direct all police officers to send to their homes all children and all young boys and girls under sixteen years of age found on the streets, away from their home neighborhoods and unattended by parents or guardians, after 9 o'clock in the evening.

IX. The police should wage a relentless warfare against houses of prostitution, immoral flats, assignation rooms, call houses, and disorderly saloons in all sections of the city.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

I. We recommend that the Department of Health of the City of Chicago investigate and report the extent of venereal diseases in Chicago each year, together with the sources of infection.

II. We recommend that the Department of Health investigate and report on the question of the practice of midwifery in Chicago, with such recommendations looking to its improvement as may be deemed proper.

III. We recommend that the Department of Health institute a rigid investigation into the use of cocaine and other noxious drugs, with a view at least of limiting such sales by the druggists.

IV. We recommend that the Board of Health direct especial attention to so-called massage practice.

V. We recommend that the Department of Health be given power to suppress as a public nuisance any place where venereal and other contagious diseases flourish.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

I. We recommend that the Board of Education appoint a committee to investigate thoroughly the advisability and methods of teaching social hygiene to the older pupils in the public schools.

II. Girls between the ages of fourteen and sixteen should receive definite vocational training in continuation schools.

III. We recommend that the Board of Education extend the use of public schools as social centers.

IV. We recommend that school grounds be open for children, always under close supervision.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE PARK COMMISSIONERS.

I. The parks should be better policed and playgrounds supervised more carefully.

II. Managers of dancing pavilions should be more vigilant in excluding professional prostitutes.

III. Soliciting by prostitutes within park enclosures should be rigidly suppressed.

IV. Park managers should extend greater protection to unaccompanied young girls, especially in the evening.

V. Public parks should be better lighted and equipped with search lights. Seats should be removed from the deep shadows.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO CHURCHES AND OTHER RELIGIOUS BODIES.

I. Pastors and religious workers should aid in arousing public opinion against the open and flagrant expression of the social evil in this city.

II. The churches should endeavor to counteract the evil influences in the community by opening rooms attached to the church buildings as recreational centers during week day evenings.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO PARENTS.

I. Great emphasis should be placed on parental responsibility and upon the effects of church and school in informing parents how to safeguard their children in sex life and relationship.

II. Parents should demand a signed statement from a reputable physician that the man asking permission to marry their daughter is free from venereal disease.

III. We recommend the careful examination of all printed material offered to children and purporting to give helpful instruction along sexual lines, and the suppression of such as is evidently vicious in intent. Publishers and book sellers should not be allowed to sell this material to children.

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