chapter XXXII
.) will show that they were so arranged that falsehoods would be easily detected unless very carefully contrived before the time of examination, of which those examined had no notice, and consequently no opportunity for fraud or deception could possibly exist.
It is not denied that there were many difficulties to be encountered, although the mode of operation was simple. It may be briefly described as follows. The captain of each police district (and oftentimes the writer with him) explained his object to the keeper of the house, assuring her that there was no intention to annoy, harass, or expose her; and,
## particularly, that no prosecutions should be based upon any information
thus collected. This latter promise was supported by a letter from a high legal functionary addressed to the Mayor and Police Department, assuring them that the particulars they collected should not be used in any manner prejudicial to the women themselves, as it was believed that a collection of the necessary information required by such a work as the present would be productive of good to the city. When satisfied upon the subject of prosecution, they were told that the real motive was to obtain correct
## particulars of prostitution without exposing individual cases, so as to
enable the public to judge of its extent, and assist them in forming an opinion as to the necessity of arrangements which would ultimately become protective to our citizens at large, as well as to housekeepers and courtesans, and many of the housekeepers expressed a hope that the design might be accomplished. Their interests, therefore, led them to speak the truth. In short, from the precautions taken, and from the result itself, very little doubt can be entertained as to the authenticity of the principal part of the replies on all essential points; and upon this consideration these replies have been made the basis of the description and remarks upon PROSTITUTION IN NEW YORK.
The task is completed, and the reader's attention may be invited to the various facts substantiated, as embodied in the following
RECAPITULATION.
There are six thousand public prostitutes in New York.
The majority of these are from fifteen to twenty-five years old.
Three eighths of them were born in the United States.
Many of those born abroad came here poor, to improve their condition.
_Education is at a very low standard with them._
One fifth of them are married women.
One half of them have given birth to children, and more than one half of these children are illegitimate.
The ratio of mortality among children of prostitutes is four times greater than the ordinary ratio among children in New York.
Many of these children are living in the abodes of vice and obscenity.
The majority of these women have been prostitutes for less than four years.
The average duration of a prostitute's life is only four years.
Nearly one half of the prostitutes in New York admit that they are or have been sufferers from syphilis.
Seduction; destitution; ill treatment by parents, husbands, or relatives; intemperance; and bad company, are the main causes of prostitution.
Women in this city have not sufficient means of employment.
Their employment is inadequately remunerated.
The associations of many employments are prejudicial to morality.
Six sevenths of the prostitutes drink intoxicating liquors to a greater or less extent.
Parental influences induced habits of intoxication.
A professed respect for religion is common among them.
A capital of nearly _four millions of dollars_ is invested in the business of prostitution.
The annual expenditure on account of prostitution is more than _seven millions of dollars_.
Prohibitory measures have signally failed to suppress or check prostitution.
A necessity exists for some action.
Motives of policy require a change in the mode of procedure.
INDEX.
Abortion, New York, 481
Abyssinia, 389
Ædiles, Powers of, 67
Afghanistan, 418
Africa, 385
" Northern, 444
Ages of Prostitutes, Great Britain, 347
" Hamburg, 200
" New York, 452
" Paris, 140
" Rome, 49
Agnes Sorel, 109
Aid to reformatory Measures, 23
Algeria, 180
Alms-house, Blackwell's Island, 587-604
American Medical Association on Infant Mortality, 482
Anglo-Saxon Rule in England, 283
Anne Boleyn, 294
Anne, Empress of Russia, 266
Arcadians and Flute Players, 50
Archiatri, 85
Architecture, obscene, 95
_Areoi_ of the South Sea Islands, 398
Areopagus, 45
Aspasia, 55
Assignation Houses, Hamburg, 211
" New York, 566
" " Origin of, 568
Asylum of _Bon Pasteur_, Paris, 152
Athens, 44
Attempts to suppress Prostitution, 19
Augustan Age, Rome, 67
Auletrides, 46, 50
Australia, 392
" Female Emigration to, 395
Avignon, 162
" public Brothel at, 100
Baal, Worship of, 37
Babylonian Banquets, 42
Bacchis, 56
Barbarous Nations, 385
Beatrice Cenci, 159
Belgium, 187
" Immorality of, 187
" Illegitimacy in, 187
Belle Ferronnière, 111
Bellevue Hospital, New York, 589, 602
" Report of Medical Board, 665
Berlin, Dancing Saloons, 246
" Effects of French Revolution, 234
" " Suppression of Prostitution, 244
" Illegitimacy, 250
" Increase of Syphilis, 248
" Number of Prostitutes, 233
" Police Regulations, 251
" Popular Feeling against licensed Brothels, 241
" Private Life, 247
" Public Life, 245
Biblical Description of Prostitution, 39
Bicetrê, Hospital of, 135
Blackwell's Island, Commitments to, 633
" Discharges from, 638
Boarding Schools, Dangers of, 519
Board of Governors, Duties of, 27
" Interrogatories by, 28
" Members of, 27
" Preliminary Report to, 29
_Bon Pasteur_ Asylum, Paris, 152
Borneo, 413
Brahmins, religious Ceremonies of, 423
Breslau, Effects of Suppression of Brothels, 237
Brides' Fair, Russia, 274
Britain, Roman Invasion of, 282
British Army, Syphilis in, 357
" Kings, Lives of the early, 285
" Merchant Service, Syphilis in, 357
" Navy, Syphilis in, 357
" North America, 460
Britons, Marriage Ceremonies of ancient, 282
Brooklyn City Hospital, Long Island, 592, 602
Brothels in Algiers, 184
" Avignon, 100
" Belgium, 188
" Berlin, abolished by Royal Order, 243
" " public Opposition to, 241
" China, 433
" Denmark, 256
" England, 316
" Hamburg, 206
" Japan, 437
" Leipzig, 253
" Mantua, 161
" New York, Capital invested in, 599
" " Management of, 554
" " Receipts of, 554
" " Value of, 553
" " German, 560
" " Sailors', 562
" Paris, 141
" Rome, 161
" Spain, 171
" Sweden, 279
" Venice, 161
Bubastis, Festival of, 40
Buffalo, N. Y., Prostitutes in, 608
Byron (Lord) on Italian Morality, 166
Callipygian Games, 52
Canute, Laws of, 284
Capital Punishment, Effects of Abolition of, 629
Career of a Prostitute, 453
Carthage, 42
Catharine I., of Russia, 263
" II., " , 267
Causes of Prostitution, Algiers, 184
" Paris, 141
" New York, 488
Cavalière Servente, 165
Celebes, 428
Celsus on secret Diseases, 84
Central and South America, 364
Ceylon, 425
Charlemagne, Legislation of, 94
Charles II., of England, 299, 304
Charles VIII, 109
Chastity enforced by the early Christians, 86
Children's Aid Society, New York, 530
Children of Prostitutes, New York, 477
Chili, 367
China, 429
Chinese Holidays, 434
Chivalry in England, Effects on Morality of, 290
Christian Doctrine, Features of, 86
" Era, 86
" Fathers on Prostitution, 91
" Virgins, Persecution of, 87
Chrysarguron, or Tax on Prostitutes, 92
Cicisbeo, 165
Circassia, 441
Civil Condition of Prostitutes, New York, 473
Classes of Prostitutes, 148
Classical Studies, Effects of, 521
Claudine du Tencin, 127
Cologne, Effects of Suppression of Brothels in, 243
Commodus, 83
Competition a Plea for insufficient Wages, 530
Connecticut, 458
Consequences of Prostitution, 19
Continuance of Prostitution, New York, 484
Conventual Life, immoral Instances in, 90
" in Portugal, 178
Copenhagen, Number of Prostitutes in, 256
" Syphilis in, 257
Corinth, 44
Corinthian Prostitutes, 58
Cork, Number of Prostitutes in, 342
Cortejos, 175
Cost of Prostitution in New York, 599
Costume of Prostitutes, Bergamo, 162
" Greece, 46
" Mantua, 62
" Milan, 162
" Parma, 162
Council of Trent, 156
Court of Prostitutes, Naples, 160
Dahomey, 387
Dancers, Rome, 69
Dancing Saloons, Berlin, 246
" Hamburg, 212
Dangers of a Prostitute's Life, 485
Danish Rule in England, 287
De la Vallière, Mademoiselle, 124
Delirium Tremens, 542, 543
De Maintenon, Madame, 124
Demilt Dispensary, New York, 591, 602
Denmark, 256
" Brothels in, 256
" Illegitimacy in, 256
Destitution a Cause of Prostitution, 489
" Instances of, in New York, 491
Diana de Poictiers, 111
Dicteria, 43
" Inviolability of, 48
Dicteriades, 46, 47
Disease in Children, 334
Dispensary, Algiers, 182, 185
" Belgium, 188
" Paris, 138
Distinguishing Costume of Prostitutes, 44
Domestic Life of Prostitutes, Hamburg, 202
" Leipzig, 255
Domestic Servants, Belgium, 187
" England, 330
" Hamburg, 199, 211
" Leipzig, 253
" New York, 526
Draconian Laws, 43
Dress, Indecency of, 117
" of French Prostitutes, 97
Dubarry, Madame, 128
Dublin, Number of Prostitutes in, 341
Duchess of Berri, 126
Duke of Orleans, 125
Duration of a Prostitute's Life, 455
Duties of Husbands, 505
" Parents, 498
" Relatives, 511
Early Christians, alleged Immorality of, 89
Eastern Dispensary, New York, 591, 602
Edinburgh, Number of Prostitutes in, 341
Education, compulsory, 471
" in Great Britain, 335
" of Prostitutes, New York, 468
" " Paris, 140
" in United States, 620
Educational Facilities in Europe, 469
" in U. States, 469
" Neglect of, 469
Effects of Indifference upon Prostitution, 25
Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor, 40
Egyptian Courtesans, 40
Elagabalus, 83
Elizabeth, of England, 295
Elizabeth, of Russia, 266
Emigrant Boarding-house Keepers, 461
Emigrants, Influences at Port of Departure on, 461
" Influences during Voyage on, 461
" Influences on reaching New York on, 461
" Poverty of, 465
" Hospital, Ward's Island, 590, 602
Emigrate, Assistance to, 466
" Inducements to, 465
England, 460
" Brothels, 316
" Causes of Prostitution, 319
" Continental Trade in Prostitution, 315
" Court Morals, 305
" Discussion on Prostitution, 653
" Domestic Servants, 330
" Effects of Chivalry on Morality, 290
" excessive Poverty, 327
" Feudal Lords, 288
" Lodging-houses, 324
" overcrowded Dwellings, 322
" Procuresses, 308, 313
" Profligacy of Troubadours, 292
" Prostitution at the present Time, 312
" Public Amusements, 330
" Puritan Rule, 298
" Restoration of Charles II., 298
" Work-house System, 326
Erotic Literature, 77
Esquimaux, 447
Example, its Effects on Prostitution, 325
Expediency of Investigation, 22
Extent, Effects, and Cost of Prostitution, 575
Factories, Great Britain, 332
" United States, 534
Fair Rosamond, 292
Fathers of Prostitutes, Business of, 535
Female Employment, 529
Female Occupations, Effect of, 533
" Monotony of, 526
Female Penitentiary, London, 351
Feudal Lords in England, 288
Financial Panic, Effect of, 577
Floralian Games, 64
Foreign-born Prostitutes, 460
Foreign Manners, Influence of, 570
Foreign Women, Demoralization of, 461
Foundling Hospitals, Belgium, 187
" Italy, 167
" Mexico, 363
" Portugal, 180
" Rio Janeiro, 371
" Russia, 276
" Spain, 176
" Sweden, 278
Fracastor, Diagnosis of Syphilis by, 132
France, 93
" during the Middle Ages, 93
" from the Middle Ages to Louis XIII., 108
" from Louis XIII. to present Day, 120
" Female Employment, 529
" obscene Literature, 102
" present Regulations, 139
" Provincial Legislation, 98
" Syphilis, 131
Francis I., 110
Franks, Concubinage among the, 94
Free Love, 569
French Legislation, 119
" Republican, 122
French Revolution, Effects in Berlin of, 234
" Effects in Great Britain, 310
" Effects in Hamburg, 191
" Effects in Paris, 122
Gauls, Morality of the, 93
" Roman Description of the, 93
George III., 308
" IV., 309
German Ball-rooms in New York, 523, 561
" Brothels in New York, 560
Glasgow, Number of Prostitutes in, 341
Glycera, 61
Gnathena, 57
Gnathenion, 57
Governmental Duty, 629
Governors of Alms-house, 27
" Interrogatories by, 28
Gradation of Prostitution, 453
Granada, public Brothels at, 172
Great Britain, 282
" Ages of Prostitutes, 347
" Education, 335
" Factories, 332
" Illegitimacy, 337
" Juvenile Prostitution, 331
" Needle Women, 344
" Occupations of Inhabitants, 622
Great Britain, Syphilis, 354
" Work-houses, 332
Greece, 43
" erotic Literature of, 62
" Flute Players, 50
" Tax on Prostitutes, 46
Greenland, 449
Gretna Green Marriages, 311
Guardian Society, London, 351
Guatemala, 365
Gynecea, 94
Hair of Greek Courtesans, 46
Halle, Effects of Suppression of Brothels in, 243
Hamburg, 189
" Ages of Prostitutes, 200
" Assignation Houses, 211
" Brothels, 198, 206
" Classes of Prostitutes, 199
" Dancing-saloons, 212
" Illegitimacy, 199
" Kept Mistresses, 210
" Kurhaus, 216
" Laws, 191
" Magdalen Hospital, 218
" Nationality of Prostitutes, 200
" Number of Prostitutes in, 198
" Police Regulations, 193
" Prostitutes, domestic Life of, 202
" Prostitutes, Physique, 201
" private Prostitution, 210
" Recognized Procuresses, 205
" Street-walkers, 210
" Syphilis, 214
Hamburger Berg, 201
Henry II., of France, 112
" III., " , 116
" VIII., of England, 294
" of Navarre, 114
Hetairæ 46, 53
" Influence of, 62
" social Position of, 54
Hipparchia, 56
Honduras, 366
Hospital du Midi, Paris 136
" in Rome, 164
Hottentots, 385
Houses of Assignation, New York, 566
Iceland, 449
Idols retained as Christian Symbols, 90
Illegitimacy in Belgium, 187
" Berlin, 250
" Denmark, 256
" Great Britain, 337
" Lima, 368
" New York, 480
" Norway, 280
" Sweden, 278
Ill Treatment by Parents, etc., a Cause of Prostitution, 498
Immigration, its Effects on Prostitution, 459
Immorality of Belgium, 187
" Spain, 169
Inclination a Cause of Prostitution, 488
Incubes, Belief in, 103
India, 421
Infanticide in China, 432
" India, 424
" Lima, 368
Infant Mortality, New York, 481
Inscription of Prostitutes, 144
Intelligence Offices an Agency for Prostitution, 517
Intemperance of Prostitutes, 540
" Parents of Prostitutes, 544
Intoxication a Cause of Prostitution, 497
Introduction, 17
Ireland, 460
Irish Farmers, 537
Isabel of Bavaria, 108
Island Hospital, Blackwell's Island, 586, 601, 633
Italian Morality, 165
" Lord Byron on, 166
Italian Vices introduced to France, 112
Italy, 154
" Decline of public Morals, 155
" Influence of Papal Court, 155
" Syphilis, 157
" unnatural Crimes, 159
James I., of England, 296
" II., " , 304
Jane Shore, 293
Japan, 435
Java, 408
Jephthah's Daughter, 38
Jerusalem, 37
Jews, the, 35
Judah and Tamar, 36
Julian Laws, 67
Justinian, 93
Juvenal's Description of a House of Prostitution, 72
Juvenile Depravity, 32, 331, 453
Kaffirs, 386
Kashmir, 419
Kept Mistresses, 172, 210
Kings County Hospital, Long Island, 592, 602
Kordofan, 390
Kurhaus of Hamburg, 216
Lamia, 53
Lais, 58
Lateran Council, 156
Latin Authors, Pruriency of, 80
Laws on Prostitution by Moses, 36
" France, 119
" " Republican, 122
" Lycurgus, 45
" Naples, 159
" Portugal, 179
" Prussia, 219, 225
" Russia, 261
League, the Huguenot, its Influence in France, 116
Leeds, Number of Prostitutes in, 341
Leipzig, 252
" Brothels, 253
" domestic Life of Prostitutes, 254
" Nationality of Prostitutes, 254
" Syphilis, 255
Lesbian Love, 52
Licensed Prostitutes in Persia, 417
License System in New York, 651
Lima, 367
" Illegitimacy and Infanticide, 368
Literature, France, 129
" Great Britain, 299
Liverpool, Number of Prostitutes in, 341
Lock Hospital, London, 350
Lodging Houses, England, 324
London Female Penitentiary, 351
" Guardian Society, 351
" Lock Hospital, 350
" Night Houses, 653
" Number of Prostitutes in, 340
" obscene Publications, 334
" public Meeting on Prostitution, 653
" Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, 357
_London Times_, the, on Prostitution, 657
Louisville, Ky., Prostitution in, 608
Louis IX., of France, 95
" XI., " , 109
" XII., " , 110
" XIII., " , 123
" XIV., of France, 124
" XV., " , 128
Louise de Querouaille, 302
Lupanaria, 70
Lycurgus, Laws of, 45
Magdalen Asylums, 631
" Hamburg, 218
" Paris, 152
Maine, 457
Male Prostitutes, 70
Manchester, Number of Prostitutes in, 341
Mantua, Brothels in, 161
Margaret, Queen of Navarre, 114
Marriage Ceremonies of the ancient Britons, 282
Marriage Ceremonies in France, 107
Marriage, Belgium, 187
" Norway, 280
" Rome, 81
" Effects of early, 474
" ill-assorted, 331
" Violation of, 473
Martial, 78
Maryland, 457
Massachusetts, 458
Medical Bureau, proposed, New York, 649
Medical Colleges, New York, 591
Medical Institutions, Theory of, New York, 633
Medical Visitation of Prostitutes, 645
" Paris, 149
Medicis, the, Effects upon French Morality of, 112
Messalina, 72
Mexican Clergy, Morals of, 360
" Society, 361
Mexico, 359
" Foundling Hospitals, 363
Moloch, Worship of, 37
Montpellier, public Brothel at, 100
Moral Chastity, Doctrine of, 88
Mothers of Prostitutes in New York, 538
Mrs. Fry, benevolent Exertions of, 353
Nach Girls, 420
Naples, Court of Prostitutes, 160
" Laws on Prostitution, 159
Nationality of Prostitutes, Algiers, 184
" Hamburg, 200
" Leipzig, 254
" New York, 456
Naucratis, 41
Needle-women, Great Britain, 344
" New York, 527
Nell Gwynne, 302
Nepotism, 155
Nero, 83
Newark, N. J., Prostitution in, 609
New Hampshire, 458
New Haven, Conn., Prostitution in, 609
New Jersey, 458
New York, Abortion, 481
" Age of Prostitutes, 452
" Aggregate Prostitution, 584
" Assignation Houses, 566
" Assistance to emigrate to, 466
" Average Wages of Women, 529
" Brothels, Capital invested in, 599
" " Management of, 554
" " Receipts of, 554
" " Value of, 553
" Brothel-keepers, 553
" Business of Fathers of Prostitutes, 535
" " of Mothers of Prostitutes, 538
" Career of a Prostitute, 453
" Causes of Prostitution, 488
" Census Returns, Reliability of, 674
" Children's Aid Society, 530
" Children of Prostitutes, 477
" civil Condition of Prostitutes, 473
" Continuance of Prostitution, 484
" Cost of Surveillance, 653
" Dangers of a Prostitute's Life, 485
" Dangers of Syphilitic Infection, 632
" Death of Parents of Prostitutes, 539
" Delirium Tremens, 543
" Dispensaries, 590, 602
" Duration of a Prostitute's Life, 455
" Education of Prostitutes, 468
" Effects of Destitution, 489
" " early Marriage, 474
" " female Occupation, 533
" " of Inclination, 488
" Extent, Effects, and Cost of Prostitution, 575
" German Ball-rooms, 523, 561
" " Brothels, 560
" Gradation of Prostitutes, 453
" foreign-born Prostitutes, 460
" Hospitals, 590, 602
" Illegitimacy, 480
" ill Treatment of Parents, Husbands, and Relatives, 498
" Inducements to emigrate, 465
" Infant Mortality, 481
" Influence of Suburbs on Prostitution, 585
" Instances of Destitution, 491
" Intemperance of Prostitutes, 540
" Intemperance of Parents of Prostitutes, 544
" Intelligence Offices, 517
" Intoxication a Cause of Prostitution, 497
" Juvenile Depravity, 453
" License System, 651
" Life of a Seamstress, 490
" Medical Institutions, Theory of, 633
" Metropolitan Police Estimate of Prostitutes, 579
" Nativity of Prostitutes, 456
" Necessity for a Syphilitic Hospital, 644
" Number of Prostitutes, 576
" Obscene Publications, 521
" Origin of Assignation Houses, 568
" Panel Houses, 573
" Parlor Houses, 549
" Police and Judiciary Expenses, 605
" Poverty of Emigrants, 465
" private Prostitutes, 582
" Preponderance of Prostitutes from Northern States, 457
" Proportion of Children attending School, 471
" proposed Surveillance of Prostitution, 643
" proposed medical Visitation of Prostitutes, 645
" Prostitutes and Houses of Prostitution, 549
" " compared with Population, 585
" " exaggerated Estimates of, 577
" " Income of, 600
" " Length of Residence in New York City, 464
" " Length of Residence in New York State, 464
" " Length of Residence in United Sates, 463
" Recapitulation of Facts, 675
" Religion of Prostitutes, 545
" " Parents of Prostitutes, 545
" Remedial Measures, 627
" Sailors' Ball-rooms, 563
" " Brothels, 562
" Schedule of Questions, 450
" Seduction in, 492
" Statistics of, 450
" Syphilis in, 586
" " Number of Prostitutes infected, 487
" Theory of present Medical Institutions, 633
" Widowed Prostitutes, 477
New Zealand, 394
Norfolk, Va., Prostitution in, 610
Norman Rule in England, 288
North American Indians, 372
Northern Africa, 444
Norway, 277
" Illegitimacy in, 280
" Syphilis in, 281
Number of Prostitutes in Berlin, 233
" China, 433
" Copenhagen, 256
" Cork, 342
" Dublin, 341
" Leipzig, 253
Nursery, Randall's Island, New York, 500, 602, 605
Obscene Literature, 102
" France, 117
" London, 334
" New York, 521
Offenses of Prostitutes, 150
Open-air Prostitution, 74
Overcrowded Dwellings, 322
Ovid, 78
Panel Houses, New York, 573
_Parc aux Cerfs_, 128
Parent-Duchatelet, Laws of France, 121
" " for Repression of Prostitution, 153
Paris, Ages of Prostitutes, 140
" _Bon Pasteur_ Asylum, 152
" Brothels, 141
" Causes of Prostitution, 141
" Classes of Prostitutes, 148
" Dispensary, 138
" Education of Prostitutes, 140
" Hospital de Lourcine, 137
" Inscription of Prostitutes, 144
" Medical Visitation, 149
" Number of Prostitutes, 139
" Offenses of Prostitutes, 150
" Operation of remedial Measures, 632
" Prisons for Prostitutes, 151
" Procuresses, 143
" Prostitution in 1858, 661
" Punishment of Prostitutes, 149
" Radiation of Prostitutes, 147
" Statistics of Syphilis, 138
Parlor Houses, New York, 549
Penitentiary, Blackwell's Island, 587, 604
Pennsylvania, 458
Persia, 415
Persian Banquets, 42
Peru, 367
Peter the Great, of Russia, 262
Philadelphia, Pa., Prostitution in, 611
Philanthropic Labors, and Results, 631
Philosophy in France, Tendency of, 130
Philtres, 63
Phoenician Customs, 42
Phryne, 45, 59
Physiological Education, Importance of, 520
Piedmont, Laws of, 162
Pisistratidæ, 44
Pittsburgh, Pa., Prostitution in, 611
Police Regulations, Algiers, 182
" Berlin, 251
" France, 139
" Russia, 227
Police of New York, Captains of, 31
" Inspectors of, 580
Police and Judiciary Expenses, New York, 605
Political Circumstances, their Connection with Prostitution, 326
Polynesia, 397
Portugal, 178
" Laws of, 179
Poverty in England, 327
Preponderance of Prostitutes from Northern States in New York, 457
Preservation of female Honor, 23
Prisons for Prostitutes, 151
Private Interest connected with Prostitution, 23
Private Life in Berlin, Description of, 247
Private Prostitution in Hamburg, 210
" New York, 582
Procuresses in England, 308, 313
" France, 97, 101
" Hamburg, 205
" Paris, 143
Prohibition, Effects of, 627
" " in France, 95
Propriety of Investigation, 20
Prostitutes compared with Population, 585
" Converted by the early Christians, 88
" exaggerated estimates of, 577
" in Algiers, Nationality of, 184
" " Number of, 183
" in New York, Income of, 600
" kindly Feeling toward each other, 547
" Number of in Edinburgh, 341
" " Glasgow, 341
" " Leeds, 341
" " Liverpool, 341
" " London, 340
" " Manchester, 341
" " New York, 575
" " Paris, 139
" " the United States, 615
" recognized in Judæa, 38
Prostitution a State Monopoly, 43
" aggregate Cost of, 606
" augmented by Secrecy, 631
" Biblical Description of, 39
" coeval with Society, 35
" earliest Record of, 35
" Impossibility of Suppressing, 19, 628
" increased by present Regulations, 630
" Notoriety of, 17
" proposed Surveillance of, 643
" Traders in, 69
Prussia, 219
Prussian Laws on Prostitution, 219-225
" Police Regulations, 227
" royal Rescript on Prostitution, 223
Public Amusements, 330
Public Decency advanced by Surveillance, 652
Public Life in Berlin, Description of, 245
Public Morals affected by Police Surveillance, 651
Public Responsibility, 640
Punishment of Prostitutes, 149
Puritan Rule in England, 298
Pythionice, 60
" Tomb of, 61
Radiation of Prostitutes, Paris, 147
Reese (Dr. D. M.) on Infant Mortality, 482
Registration of Prostitutes, 144
Religion of Prostitutes, 545
" Parents of Prostitutes, 545
Religious Prostitution in Chaldea, 41
" Greece, 43
Remedial Measures in Paris, Operation of, 632
" proposed, 627
Report on Infant Mortality, by Dr. Reese, 482
Report of Medical Board, Bellevue Hospital, 665
Report of Resident Physician, Blackwell's Island, 29
Report of Resident Physician, Randall's Island, 673
Repression of Prostitution, Parent-Duchatelet's Law for, 153
Republican Legislation in France, 122
Resorts of Criminals, 22
Restoration of Charles II., Effect on Morality of, 298
Rhadopis, 41
Rhode Island, 457
Rio Janeiro, Foundling Hospitals in, 371
_Roi des Ribauds_, 96
Rome, 64
" Banquets, 81
" Baths, 73
" Brothels, 161
" _Commessationes_, 82
" Costume of Prostitutes, 75
" Drug Sellers, 85
" Emperors, 82
" Houses of Prostitution, 70
" Laws governing Prostitution, 64
" Physicians, 85
" Prostitutes, Classes of, 68
" " Habits of, 75
" " Number of, 68
" " Remuneration of, 76
" Republican Legislation, 67
" secret Diseases, 84
" Society, Demoralization of, 79
" Taverns, 74
Ruffiani, 169
Russia, 261
" Brides' Fair, 274
" Foundling Hospitals, 275
" Laws of, 261
" Marriage ceremonies, 274
" Morals of the present Day, 272
" Syphilis, 276
_Sabat des Sorciers_, 104
Sailors' Ball-rooms, New York, 563
" Brothels, New York, 562
Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, London, 357
Saint Petersburg Foundling Hospital, 275
Salpétrière, Hospital of, 134
Sanitary Regulations, Importance of, 632
Savannah, Ga., Prostitution in, 612
Schedule of Questions, New York, 450
Scotland, 460
Seaman's Retreat, Staten Island, 592, 602
Seamstress, the, in New York, 490
Secret Diseases among the Jews, 36
" at Rome, 84
Sectarian Aids to Prostitution, 105
Seduction, 320
" a Cause of Prostitution, 492
" a social Wrong, 495
Semicivilized Nations, 415
Seville, public Brothels at, 172
Sexual Desire, 320
Siberia, 445
Society, Prostitution coeval with, 35
Solomon's Temple, 38
Solon, Laws of, 43
Spain, 168
" Court of, 170
" Immorality of, 169
" public Brothels in, 172
Spanish and Roman Laws, Similarity of, 168
Spanish Laws, 172
" Women, Education of, 177
Sparta, 45
Statistics of New York, 450
Stockholm, Immorality of, 280
" Illegitimacy in, 278
_Succubes_, Belief in, 103
Sumatra, 411
Suttee, 424
Sweden, 277
" Brothels in, 279
" Foundling Hospitals in, 278
" Illegitimacy in, 278
" Syphilis in, 279
Switzerland, 259
Syphilis, Algiers, 186
" Belgium, 188
" Berlin, 248
" British Army, 357
" " Merchant Service, 357
" " Navy, 357
" Copenhagen, 257
" France, 131
" Great Britain, 354
" Hamburg, 214
" India, 424
" Italy, 157
" Japan, 439
" Kashmir, 421
" Leipzig, 255
" New York, 586
" " aggregate Expenses of, 603
" " Number of Prostitutes infected by, 487
" " treated by Drug Sellers, 595
" " treated by Advertisers, 596
" " treated by patent Medicines, 595
" " treated in private Practice, 592
" New Zealand, 395
" Norway, 281
" Paris, 138
" Portugal, 179
" Rome, 164
" Russia, 276
" Sandwich Islands, 404
" Spain, 174
" Sweden, 279
Syphilitic-Hospital in New York, Necessity of, 644
Syphilitic Infection, Danger of, 632
" Patients, Neglect of, 133
Tait (of Edinburgh) on Prostitution in New York, 615
Tartar Races, 440
Tax on Prostitutes, Algiers, 182
Templars, Depravity of, 97
Thargelia, 55
Theatricals, France, 118
" Great Britain, 300
Theodora, Empress of Rome, 92
" Attempts to reclaim Prostitutes by, 92
Toulouse, public Brothel at, 99
Troubadours, Profligacy of, 292
Turkey, 442
Ulm, Laws of, 189
Ultra-Gangetic Nations, 427
Underpaid Labor, 328
United States, Ages of Inhabitants, 619
" Births in, 620
" Crime in, 625
" Education in, 620
" Intemperance in, 625
" Number of Prostitutes in, 615
" Occupations of Inhabitants, 622
" Pauperism in, 624
" Prostitutes in various Cities of, 607
" Statistics of, 618
" Wages in, 623
Unnatural Crimes, 159
Vagrancy Commitments, 633
" moral Effects of, 635
" "on Confession", 634
" pecuniary Effects of, 635
Valencia, public Brothel at, 172
Vectigal, or Tax on Prostitutes, 92
Venice, Brothels in, 161
" Prostitutes in, 162
Venus, Worship of, 53
Vermont, 458
Virginia, 457
Wages influenced by Competition, 530
Wales, 460
West Indies, 406
Widowed Prostitutes, 477
Witches, Persecution of, 105
Women, average Wages of in N. Y., 529
" Capability of, 525
" Social Condition of, 525
Work-house, Blackwell's Island, 587-603
" Great Britain, 332
Yucatan, 365
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Since this introduction was written (1857) some changes have taken place in the constitution of the Board of Governors. The election of Mr. Tiemann to the Mayoralty caused a vacancy which is now filled by P. McElroy, Esq., and the resignation and subsequent death of Mr. Taylor has resulted in the election of William T. Pinkney, Esq.
[2] Now (1858) President of the Board.
[3] Now (1858) Secretary of the Board.
[4] To explain the apparent solecism of addressing a letter to President Townsend, detailing actions in which he had taken so important a part, it may be necessary to say that a standing order of the Board of Governors requires all official correspondence with them to be addressed to their President.
[5] See