Exhaustive tables have been prepared from the data collected from 108 cases by the Commission in its investigation. For lack of space these tables are omitted and analyses of them are given instead. To show how the data were collected, one table is given as an exhibit covering the cases of thirty girls investigated in a most careful and painstaking way by a woman intimately connected with the rescue and reform work of the city. Similar tables are in possession of the Commission which have been furnished by the organizations mentioned. ANALYSIS OF "TABLE GIVING DATA REGARDING THIRTY INMATES OF HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION IN CHICAGO." These women are the heavy money earners of some of the "best" houses in Chicago. The majority of them are apparently in robust health. At any rate they are in physical condition good enough and attractive enough to patrons to hold the lead in professional prostitution and earn weekly from $50 to $400. This would seem to largely disprove the statement so frequently made “that the average life of the prostitute is five years" and also the solemn statement of one Municipal Court Judge that "in five years these girls will all be dead." It is undoubtedly true that the women in houses are longer lived and better off than the street walker or possibly than the clandestine prostitute—with her, service is largely mechanical—not an act appealing to sentiment or affection-while with the latter type especially, the physical stress upon her body and nerves and strength caused by expression of "love" as they understand it, makes demands upon endurance that are unknown to the professional prostitute. Occupation. Studying the occupations, it is found that of the thirty only three never worked; one of these was educated in a convent; of the other two, no data are given. The rest tried to earn their living as follows: Domestics, 633 Waitresses, 5 Clerks, Saleswomen dept. store 3 |