Commercialized Prostitution in New York CityPublications of the Bureau of social hygiene. |
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28th Street agents arrested August August 15 Austria-Hungary Avenue and Street BEDFORD Broadway colored corner of Sixth counted 6 street customers Disorderly house dollars Domestic Service earned East enter premises entering prostitution February February 19 floor foreign born furnished room gonorrhoea house in West house of prostitution immoral purposes inmates institutions June keeper liquor living madame Manhattan March March 11 massage parlors ment months mother occupation officer one-dollar house owner P. M. Investigator counted P. M. The investigator parents parlor houses pimp Precincts price of room Price of woman procurer proprietor prosti Raines Law rear room room $2 saloons Seventh Avenue Sixth Avenue Street to enter street walkers syphilis tenement Tenement House tion TOTAL NUMBER trade unescorted women vice resorts wages walkers on Sixth week West 25th Street West 28th West 28th Street woman $2 workhouse York City young girls ΙΟ
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Page 24 - tenement-house '' shall be taken to mean and include every house, building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or is occupied, as the home, or residence of three...
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Page 191 - A person who has contracted an infectious or other disease, in the practice of drunkenness or debauchery, requiring charitable aid to restore him to health; 4.
Page x - It does live rigidly up to its stated purpose, to "set forth as accurately and fully as possible the conditions of vice as they existed in New York city in 1912." Knowledge of conditions will lead to "an understanding of the various factors involved — physical, moral, social and economic.
Page vii - ... of the series to be issued by the Bureau of Social Hygiene, it is appropriate to state briefly the origin and plans of the Bureau and to indicate the place assigned to the present study in the scheme which the Bureau has undertaken to develop. The Bureau of Social Hygiene was created as a result of the work of the Special Grand Jury which investigated the white slave traffic in New York City in 1910.
Page viii - ... of which would not be dependent upon a temporary wave of reform nor upon the life of any man or group of men, but which would go on, generation after generation, continuously making warfare against the forces of evil. It also appeared that a private organization would have, among other advantages, a certain freedom from publicity and from political bias, which a publicly appointed commission could not easily avoid.
Page 51 - Prostitution in New York city is widely and openly exploited as a business enterprise. The exploiters, the scenes of their operations, their methods, their associations and their victims are all equally notorious. It is idle to explain away the phenomena on the ground that they are the results of the inevitable weakness of human nature ; human weakness would demand far fewer and less horrible sacrifices. Most of the wreckage, and the worst of it, is due to persistent, cunning and unprincipled exploitation...
Page 34 - The immediate increase was over 10,000 bedrooms. There being no actual demand for such an increase in hotel accommodations, the proprietors in many instances used them for purposes of assignation or prostitution, to meet the additional expense incurred.