Buffalo, N. Y.
(Copy.)
“Mayor’s Office, Buffalo, October 2, 1856.
“Dear Sir,—I received your circular of the 1st of September, asking that certain questions concerning houses of prostitution, prostitutes, etc., might be answered.
“I immediately directed our chief to collect the necessary information through the police, and I have just received his report: I here inclose the answers.
“To show how far the report can be relied on for accuracy, I here copy from his report: ‘The captains inform me that they experienced much difficulty in their endeavors to make a correct report and answer to the several questions proposed; they, however, believe that the returns, so far at least as the number of houses and public prostitutes is concerned, are very near correct.’
“Any farther information you may desire I will cheerfully give, so far as I am able. I am respectfully yours,
“F. P. Stevens, Mayor.”
(Inclosure.)
| “Houses of Prostitution | 87 | |
| "of Assignation | 37 | |
| Public Prostitutes | 272 | |
| Private Prostitutes | 81 | |
| Kept Mistresses | 31 | |
| Population | 75,000.” |