A vast amount of statistical information, compiled from authentic records, is contained in the body of the work, and in the Appendix, and a few illustrations are introduced, graphically showing the extremes of vice and crime.

The publishers have to thank Sir Richard Mayne and the authorities at Scotland Yard, as well as the Secretaries of the various charitable societies, for much valuable information and assistance.

Stationers’ Hall Court;
December, 1861.

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]

APPENDIX.

Maps and Tables
Illustrating the Criminal Statistics of each of the Counties of England and Wales in 1851.
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Map showing the Density of the Population[451]
Table of ditto[452]
Map showing the Intensity of Criminality[455]
Table of ditto[456]
Map showing the Intensity of Ignorance[459]
Table of ditto[460]
Table of Ignorance among Criminals[462]
Table of Degrees of Criminality[464]
Comparative Educational Tables[465]
Map showing the Number of Illegitimate Children[467]
Table of ditto[468]
Map showing the Number of Early Marriages[471]
Table of ditto[472]
Map showing the Number of Females[475]
Table of ditto[476]
Map showing Commitals for Rape[477]
Table of ditto[479]
Map showing Committals for Assault with Intent to Ravish and Carnally Abuse[481]
Table of ditto[482]
Map showing Commitals for Disorderly Houses[485]
Table of ditto[486]
Map showing Concealment of Births[489]
Table of ditto[490]
Map showing attempts at Miscarriage[493]
Table of ditto[494]
Map showing Assaults with Intent[497]
Table of ditto[498]
Map showing Committals for Bigamy[499]
Table of ditto[500]
Map showing Committals for Abduction[501]
Table of ditto[502]
Map showing the Criminality of Females[503]
Table of ditto[504]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.