Dr. Henry Severus,[89] who also favors legal recognition of prostitution maintains an original point of view. He regards it as a useful institution, because it is a necessary correlation of marriage, and that without it the free choice in marriage would be impaired. According to him prostitution is a sort of safety-valve of bourgeois society. He claims: “Much of the poverty that leads to such deplorable social conditions may be traced to the fact, that marriages are recklessly contracted, without questioning how the necessary means of livelihood might be obtained. It is in the interest of the state, that such marriages should not be contracted, for the children that spring from them cannot be sufficiently provided for by their parents, nor do they belong in the foundling hospital, being legitimate children, and thus become ~a peril to society~. Prostitution,” he goes on to say, “prevents that the force of natural instinct should lead to the contracting of marriages that result in an ~increase of those elements of the population~ who, owing to lack of education and an unfortunate childhood, ~developes sentiments that are hostile to the state and become enemies of society~.” So according to this, state regulation of vice furnishes a protection and a remedy against socialism--a view that may at least lay claim to originality. So we may reiterate our assertion, prostitution is a necessary social institution of bourgeois society, just as the police, the standing army, the church and the capitalist class. [82] F. Huegel.--History, Statistics and Regulation of Prostitution in Vienna, 1865. [83] Max Rubner--Text Book of Hygiene. Leipsic, 1907. [84] Th. Bade. Procurers and public dance halls. [85] Statistics gathered by the Berlin police in 1871–72 concerning the parentage of 2,224 enrolled prostitutes showed the following figures: 1,015 equal 47.9 per cent. came from the artisan class; 467 equal 22.0 per cent. were daughters of factory laborers; 305 equal 14.4 per cent. of minor officials; 222 equal 10.4 per cent. of merchants, etc.; 37 equal 4.1 per cent. of farmers, and 26 equal 1.2 per cent of military men. With 102 the father’s profession could not be determined. [86] R. Schmoelder, Punishment of fornication as a trade. [87] J. Kuehn. Prostitution in the nineteenth century from the standpoint of police sanitation. [88] Dr. Fock--Prostitution in its ethical and sanitary aspect. [89] Dr. H. Severus--Prostitution and the state. 2.--Prostitution and the State.