+------------------------------------------+ | | Women struck off the Rolls of | | | Prostitutes | |Years.|-----------------------------------| | | At their |In consequence| | | |own request.| of absence. | Total.| |------|------------|--------------|-------| | 1817 | 485 | 575 | 1060 | | 1818 | 477 | 582 | 1059 | | 1819 | 469 | 571 | 1040 | | 1820 | 415 | 716 | 1131 | | 1821 | 433 | 733 | 1166 | | 1822 | 417 | 739 | 1156 | | 1823 | 502 | 605 | 1107 | | 1824 | 442 | 602 | 1044 | | 1825 | 456 | 527 | 983 | | 1826 | 486 | 554 | 1040 | | 1827 | 490 | 542 | 1032 | | 1828 | 572 | 415 | 987 | | 1829 | 298 | 536 | 834 | | 1830 | 334 | 502 | 836 | | 1831 | 284 | 452 | 736 | | 1832 | 449 | 718 | 1167 | | |------------|--------------|-------| | | 7009 | 9369 | 16378 | +------------------------------------------+ Once inscribed, prostitutes are divided into three classes: 1st. Those who live in a licensed or "tolerated" brothel. 2d. Those who live alone in furnished rooms. 3d. Those who live in rooms which they furnish, and outwardly bear no mark of infamy. In the eye of the law there is no difference between the three classes; all are equally subject to police and medical supervision. Every girl that is inscribed receives a card bearing her name, and the number of her page in the register; a blank column of this card is left to be filled by a memorandum of the date of each visit by the physicians of the Dispensary. But the three classes differ in respect of the place where they are visited. The Dispensary physicians visit the inmates of brothels in the houses where they live; all other prostitutes visit them at the Dispensary. Yet another visit is made by the Dispensary physicians to the Dépôt, or Lock-up, at the Prefecture of Police; as there are always a certain number of prostitutes arrested for drunkenness or disorderly conduct every night, it was thought well to seize the opportunity of their confinement to inquire into the state of their health.