Part 67 (2/2)

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 prost.i.tutes 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 prost.i.tutes for less than four years.

The average duration of a prost.i.tute's life is only four years.

Nearly one half of the prost.i.tutes in New York admit that they are or have been sufferers from syphilis.

Seduction; dest.i.tution; ill treatment by parents, husbands, or relatives; intemperance; and bad company, are the main causes of prost.i.tution.

Women in this city have not sufficient means of employment.

Their employment is inadequately remunerated.

The a.s.sociations of many employments are prejudicial to morality.

Six sevenths of the prost.i.tutes 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 prost.i.tution.

The annual expenditure on account of prost.i.tution is more than _seven millions of dollars_.

Prohibitory measures have signally failed to suppress or check prost.i.tution.

A necessity exists for some action.

Motives of policy require a change in the mode of procedure.

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