CONTENTS.

THE AGENCIES AT PRESENT IN OPERATION WITHIN THE METROPOLIS,FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE AND CRIME.
By the Rev. William Tuckniss, B.A.
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Universal Desire for Investigation[xi]
Mere Palliatives insufficient to Check the Growth of Crime[xi]
Decrease of Crime doubtful[xii]
General Desire to Alleviate Misery[xiii]
Guthrie on Great Cities[xiv]
Social Position of London[xv]
Agencies at Work in London[xvii]
Their Number and Income[xvii]
Curative Agencies[xviii]
British and Foreign Bible Society[xix]
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge[xix]
Institution for Reading the Word of God in the Open Air[xix]
Theatre Services[xix]
London City Mission,[xx]
Church of England Scripture Readers’ Society[xxii]
Religious Tract Society[xxiii]
Pure Literature Society[xxiii]
Preventive Agencies[xxiv]
National Temperance Society[xxiv]
United Kingdom Alliance[xxiv]
Free Drinking Fountain Association[xxv]
Ragged School Union[xxv]
Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes[xxv]
Female Servants’ Home Society[xxvi]
Female Aid Society[xxvii]
Training Institutions for Servants[xxvii]
Field Lane Night Refuges[xxvii]
Dudley Stuart Night Refuge[xxvii]
Houseless Poor Asylum[xxviii]
House of Charity[xxviii]
Foundling Hospital[xxviii]
Society for the Suppression of Mendicity[xxviii]
Association for Promoting the Relief of Destitution[xxviii]
Association for the Aid and Benefit of Dressmakers and Milliners[xxix]
Young Women’s Christian Association and West-end Home[xxix]
Society for Promoting the Employment of Women[xxx]
Metropolitan Early Closing Association, &c.[xxx]
Repressive and Punitive Agencies[xxx]
Society for the Suppression of Vice[xxxi]
The Associate Institution[xxxi]
Society for Promoting the Observance of the Lord’s Day[xxxiv]
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals[xxxiv]
Reformative Agencies[xxxiv]
Reformatory and Refuge Union[xxxiv]
Reformative Agencies for Fallen Women[xxxv]
Magdalen Hospital[xxxvi]
London by Moonlight Mission[xxxvii]
Society for the Rescue of Young Women and Children[xxxvii]
London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution[xxxvii]
Concluding Remarks[xxxviii]
INTRODUCTION AND CLASSIFICATION. By Henry Mayhew[1]
Workers and Non-workers[2]
Classification of ditto[11]
Those who will Work[12]
Enrichers[13]
Auxiliaries[16]
Benefactors[19]
Servitors[20]
Those who cannot Work[22]
Those who are provided for[22]
Those who are unprovided for[22]
Those who will not Work[23]
Vagrants or Tramps[23]
Professional Beggars[23]
Cheats and their Dependants[24]
Thieves and their Dependants[25]
Prostitutes and their Dependants[27]
Those that need not Work[27]
Those who derive their Income from Rent[27]
Those who derive their Income from Dividends[27]
Those who derive their Income from Yearly Stipends[27]
Those who derive their Income from obsolete or nominal Offices[27]
Those who derive their Income from Trades in which they do not appear[27]
Those who derive their Income by favour from others[27]
Those who derive their support from the head of the family[27]
THE NON-WORKERS. By Henry Mayhew[28]
PROSTITUTES.
THE PROSTITUTE CLASS GENERALLY. By Henry Mayhew and Bracebridge Hemyng[35]
Prostitution in Ancient States[37]
The Jews, &c.[39]
Ancient Egypt[43]
Ancient Greece[45]
Ancient Rome[49]
The Anglo-Saxons[34]
Prostitution among the Barbarous Nations[58]
African Nations[58]
Australia[67]
New Zealand[71]
Islands of the Pacific[76]
North American Indians[84]
South American Indians[90]
Cities of South America[93]
West Indies[94]
Java[96]
Sumatra[99]
Borneo[103]
Prostitution among the Semi-civilized Nations[104]
Celebes[107]
Persia[108]
The Affghans[111]
Kashmir[115]
India[117]
Ceylon[125]
China[129]
Japan[136]
The ultra-Gangetic Nations[139]
Egypt[141]
Northern Africa[149]
Arabia, Syria, and Asia Minor[151]
Turkey[155]
Circassia[158]
The Tartar Races[160]
Prostitution among the Mixed Northern Nations[163]
Russia[165]
Siberia[167]
Iceland and Greenland[172]
Lapland and Sweden[174]
Norway[177]
Denmark[179]
Prostitution in Civilized States[181]
Spain[191]
Amsterdam[195]
Belgium[195]
Hamburg[196]
Prussia—Germany[198]
Berlin[198]
Austria[200]
Modern Rome[201]
Turin[203]
Berne[204]
Paris[205]
PROSTITUTION IN LONDON. By Bracebridge Hemyng[210]
General Remarks[210]
Seclusives, or those that Live in Private Houses and Apartments[215]
The Haymarket[217]
Degree of Education among Prostitutes[218]
Board Lodgers[220]
Autobiographies[220]
Those who Live in low Lodging Houses[223]
Swindling Sall[223]
Lushing Loo[224]
Sailors’ Women[226]
Visit to Ratcliff Highway[228]
Visit to Bluegate Fields, &c.[231]
Soldiers’ Women[233]
Visit to Knightsbridge[235]
Thieves’ Women[236]
Visit to Drury Lane, &c.[236]
Park Women[242]
Examples[242]
The Dependants of Prostitutes[246]
Bawds[246]
Followers of Dress Lodgers[247]
Keepers of Accommodation Houses[249]
Procuresses, Pimps, and Panders[250]
Fancy Men[252]
Bullies[253]
Clandestine Prostitutes
Female Operatives[255]
Maid Servants[257]
Ladies of Intrigue and Houses of Assignation[258]
Cohabitant Prostitutes[259]
Narrative of a Gay Woman[260]
Criminal Returns[263]
Traffic in Foreign Women[269]
THIEVES AND SWINDLERS.—By John Binny.
Introduction[273]
Sneaks, or Common Thieves[277]
Juvenile Thieves[277]
Stealing from Street Stalls[277]
Stealing from the Till[278]
Stealing from the Doors and Windows of Shops[279]
Stealing from Children[281]
Child Stripping[281]
Stealing from Drunken Persons[282]
Stealing Linen, &c.[283]
Robberies from Carts[284]
Stealing Lead from House-tops, Copper from Kitchens, &c.[285]
Robberies by false Keys[286]
Robberies by Lodgers[288]
Robberies by Servants[289]
Area and Lobby Sneaks[290]
Stealing by Lifting Windows, &c.[292]
Attic or Garret Thieves[293]
A Visit to the Rookery of St. Giles[294]
Narrative of a London Sneak[301]
Pickpockets and Shoplifters[303]
Common Pickpockets[306]
Omnibus Pickpockets[309]
Railway Pickpockets[310]
A Visit to the Thieves’ Dens in Spitalfields[311]
Narrative of a Pickpocket[316]
Horse and Dog Stealers[325]
Horse Stealing[325]
Dog Stealing[325]
Highway Robbers[326]
A Ramble among the Thieves’ Dens in the Borough[330]
Housebreakers and Burglars[334]
Narrative of a Burglar[345]
Narrative of another Burglar[349]
Prostitute Thieves[355]
Prostitutes of the Haymarket[356]
Common Street Walkers[360]
Hired Prostitutes[361]
Park Women[362]
Soldiers’ Women[363]
Sailors’ Women[365]
Felonies on the River Thames[366]
Mudlarks[366]
Sweeping Boys[367]
Sellers of Small Wares[367]
Labourers on board Ship[367]
Dredgermen or Fishermen[368]
Smuggling[368]
Felonies by Lightermen[368]
The River Pirates[369]
Narrative of a Mudlark[370]
Receivers of Stolen Property[373]
Dolly Shops[373]
Pawnbrokers, &c.[374]
Narrative of a Returned Convict[376]
Coining[377]
Coiners[378]
Forgers[380]
Cheats[383]
Embezzlers[383]
Magsmen or Sharpers[385]
Swindlers[388]
BEGGARS.—By Andrew Halliday.
Introduction[393]
Origin and History of the Poor Laws[394]
Statistics of the Poor Laws[397]
Report of the Poor Law Board[397]
Street Beggars in 1816[398]
Mendicant Pensioners[399]
Mendicity Society[399]
Examples of Applications[401]
Begging Letter Writers[403]
Decayed Gentlemen[404]
Broken-down Tradesmen[405]
Distressed Scholar[405]
The Kaggs’ Family[406]
Advertising Begging Letter Writers[410]
Ashamed Beggars[412]
The Swell Beggar[413]
Clean Family Beggars[413]
Naval and Military Beggars[415]
Turnpike Sailor[415]
Street Campaigners[417]
Foreign Beggars[419]
The French Beggar[419]
Destitute Poles[420]
Hindoo Beggars[423]
Negro Beggars[425]
Disaster Beggars[427]
A Shipwrecked Mariner[428]
Blown-up Miners[429]
Burnt-out Tradesmen[429]
Lucifer Droppers[431]
Bodily Afflicted Beggars[431]
Seventy years a Beggar[432]
Having swollen Legs[433]
Cripples[433]
A Blind Beggar[433]
Beggars subject to Fits[434]
Being in a Decline[435]
Shallow Coves[435]
Famished Beggars[436]
The Choking Dodge[437]
The Offal Eater[437]
Petty Trading Beggars[438]
An Author’s Wife[440]
Dependants of Beggars[441]
Referees[445]
Distressed Operative Beggars[446]
Starved-out Manufacturers[446]
Unemployed Agriculturists[446]
Frozen-out Gardeners[446]
Hand-loom Weavers, &c.[447]