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All parties are, however, agreed in representing that it is impracticable to form any thing like a correct estimate of ”the number of female servants, milliners, and women in the upper and middle cla.s.ses of society who might properly be cla.s.sed with prost.i.tutes, or of the women who frequent theatres, barracks, s.h.i.+ps, prisons, etc.”

In 1851, the police of Dublin published in their statistical returns the number of prost.i.tutes in that city, which is the only public or official paper on the point having any appearance of system or accuracy. It is as follows:

1848 Brothels 385 Prost.i.tutes 1343 1849 ” 330 ” 1344 1850 ” 272 ” 1215 1851 ” 297 ” 1170

This table shows a steady decrease in the number of these women. We are uninformed as to any local causes for this, nor do we know whether it has been balanced by an increase of ”sly” or occasional prost.i.tution.

From the preceding figures a calculation has been made of the regular prost.i.tutes relatively to the population in the several towns. It appears to have been based on the number of inhabitants at the date of the various estimates. That of Dublin is according to the census of 1851, the remainder according to that of 1841.

PROPORTION OF PROSt.i.tUTES TO POPULATION.

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Proportion to Population.

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Number of

To total

Prost.i.tutes.

To Males.

To Females.

Population.

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Liverpool

2900

1 to 43

1 to 45

1 to 88

Manchester

700

1 to 156

1 to 169

1 to 325

Leeds

700

1 to 70

1 to 75

1 to 145

Edinburgh

800

1 to 106

1 to 130

1 to 236

Glasgow

1800

1 to 87

1 to 97

1 to 184

Dublin

1170

1 to 101

1 to 119

1 to 220

Cork[311]

350