------------------------------------------- Actress 1 Canvasser 2 Charge of Hotel Linen Room 1 Cook (6 colored) 10 Day's work 46 Domestic--General housework (6 colored) 9 Dressmaker 4 Factory Operatives 11 Housekeeper 4 Janitress 13 Laundress 17 Midwife 6 Milliner 1 Market Woman 1 Nurse 9 Peddler 2 Small Shopkeepers 7 Tailoress 1 ---- TOTAL 145 ------------------------------------------- Total number of cases, 647 Percentage of occupied mothers, 22.4 TABLE VIII BEDFORD CASES EDUCATION Cannot read or write any language--15 American born 50 7.72% Reads and writes a foreign language--5 read a little Eng. 32 4.83% Read and write a little, no further education 192 29.67% Did not finish primary grades 70 10.82% Reached but did not finish grammar grades 257 39.72% Graduated from grammar grades 25 3.86% Entered, but did not finish high school 13 2.00% Graduated from high school 4 .77% One year in normal school 3 .46% Eight months at college 1 .15% ------------ TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES 647 100.00% [Illustration: GRAPH ILLUSTRATING TABLE VIII] TABLE IX BEDFORD CASES I _Wages before entering prostitution_ EARNINGS