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 prostitutes 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 prostitutes for less than four years.
The average duration of a prostitute’s life is only four years.
Nearly one half of the prostitutes in New York admit that they are or have been sufferers from syphilis.
Seduction; destitution; ill treatment by parents, husbands, or relatives; intemperance; and bad company, are the main causes of prostitution.
Women in this city have not sufficient means of employment.
Their employment is inadequately remunerated.