[106] "Die gesundheitschaedliche Tragweite der Prostitution," Dr. Oskar Lassar. [107] "Die Behandlung der Geschlechtskrankheiten in Krankenkassen und Heilanstalten." [108] In the English hospitals, during 1875, fully 14 per cent. of the children under treatment were suffering of inherited venereal diseases. In London, there died of these diseases 1 man out of every 190 cases of death; in all England, 1 out of every 159 cases; in the poor-houses of France, 1 out of 160.5. [109] "Was die Strasse verschlingt." [110] Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, "The Moral Education." [111] Montegazza, "L'Amour dans l'Humanite." [112] "Aus Japan nach Deutschland durch Sibirien." [113] "Zweiter Verwaltungsbericht des Kgl. Polizei-Praesidiums von Berlin vom Jahre 1881-1890." [114] In the large trades union sick-benefit associations of Berlin the number of syphilitic diseases increased from 4326 in 1881 to 9420 in 1890. Dr. A. Blaschko, _ubi supra_. [115] Karl Marx, "Capital," p. 461, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1896. [116] _Ubi supra._ [117] "Das Kellnerinnen-Elend In Berlin," Berlin, 1893. [118] Dr. Max Taube, "Der Schutz der unehelichen Kinder," Leipsic, 1893. [119] "Die gefallenen Maedchen und die Sittenpolizei," Wilh. Issleib, Berlin, 1889. [120] In a work, "Kapital und Presse," Berlin, 1891, Dr. F. Mehring proves that a by no means indifferent actress was engaged at a well known theater at a salary of 100 marks a month, and that her outlay for wardrobe alone ran up to 1000 marks a month. The deficit was covered by a "friend." [121] Lombroso and Ferrero, _ubi supra_. [122] "Die venerischen Krankheiten in Daenemark," Dr. Giesing. [123] Report of the Sanitary Commission on the organization of sanitation relative to prostitution in Paris, addressed to the Municipal Council of Paris, 1890. CHAPTER IV. WOMAN'S POSITION AS A BREADWINNER; HER INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES; DARWINISM AND THE CONDITION OF SOCIETY. The endeavor of woman to secure economic self-support and personal independence has, to a certain degree, been recognized as legitimate by bourgeois society, the same as the endeavor of the workingman after greater freedom of motion. The principal reason for such acquiescence lies in the class interests of the bourgeoisie itself. The bourgeoisie, or capitalist class, requires the free and unrestricted purveyance of male and female labor-power for the fullest development of production. In even tempo with the perfection of machinery, and technique; with the subdivision of labor into single acts requiring ever less technical experience and strength; with the sharpening of the competitive warfare between industry and industry, and between whole regions--country against country, continent against continent--the labor-power of woman comes into ever greater demand.