Part 42 (2/2)
”Have you had any disease incident to prost.i.tution? If so, what?
”What was the cause of your becoming a prost.i.tute?
”Is prost.i.tution your only means of support?
”If not, what other means have you?
”What trade or calling did you follow before you became a prost.i.tute?
”How long is it since you abandoned your trade as a means of living?
”What were your average weekly earnings at your trade?
”What business did your father follow?
”If your mother had any business independent of your father, what was it?
”Did you a.s.sist either your mother or your father in their business?
If so, which of them?
”Is your father living? or how old were you when he died?
”Is your mother living? or how old were you when she died?
”Do you drink intoxicating liquors? If so, to what extent?
”Did your father drink intoxicating liquors? If so, to what extent?
”Did your mother drink intoxicating liquors? If so, to what extent?
”Were your parents ”Protestants,” ”Catholics,” or ”non-professors?”
”Were you trained to any religion? If so, was it Protestant or Catholic?
”Do you profess the same religion now?
”How long since you observed any of its requirements?”
In addition to this comprehensive series, s.p.a.ce was left for any remarks the examiner might wish, to make upon other points. The queries were printed on a large sheet of paper, with sufficient blanks for the answers, and the officer was desired, as soon as he had obtained all the information required, to fold the sheet, and sign his name on a line left for that purpose, with the date the inquiries were made, the locality of the house in which the woman resided, and the police district in which it was comprised. It is a matter of much regret that in the burning of the Island Hospital, Blackwell's Island, on February 13th, 1858, all the schedules were destroyed. They contained many facts which, from want of s.p.a.ce, are but slightly alluded to in the following pages, and would have been of material service in any measures hereafter taken to mitigate the sorrows or prevent the excesses of the abandoned women of New York.
Farther prelude is unnecessary. It only remains to give the answers as received, with such deductions as may arise from them.
_Question._ HOW OLD WILL YOU BE NEXT BIRTH-DAY?
Age. Number.
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