+------------+--------------+--------------+----------------+ | | Total No. | Total | | | | 1914-15 | 1916-17 | Total | | | Male Female | Male Female | 1914-15 1916-17| +------------+--------------+--------------+----------------+ |Under 16 | 40 | 8 | 21 | 7 | 48 | 28 | |16 to 20 | 69 | 31 | 112 | 18 | 100 | 130 | |20 to 30 | 556 | 195 | 1133 | 237 | 751 | 1370 | |30 to 40 | 398 | 109 | 797 | 96 | 507 | 893 | |40 to 50 | 232 | 18 | 432 | 35 | 250 | 467 | |50 and over | 107 | 11 | 192 | 12 | 118 | 204 | |----------- | ---- | --- | ---- | --- | ---- | ---- | | | 1402 | 372 | 2687 | 405 | 1774 | 3092 | +------------+--------------+--------------+----------------+ _TABLE NUMBER XVIII_ _Showing the Number of Married and Single People Arrested; Also Showing the Sex._ +---------+---------------+--------------+-----------------+ | | Total No. | Total No. | | | | 1914-15 | 1916-17 | TOTAL | | | Male Female | Male Female | 1914-15 1916-17| +---------+---------------+--------------+-----------------+ | Single | 1024 | 194 | 2269 | 256 | 1218 | 2525 | | Married | 395 | 161 | 428 | 139 | 556 | 567 | +---------+---------------+--------------+-----------------+ | | 1419 | 355 | 2697 | 395 | 1774 | 3092 | +---------+---------------+--------------+-----------------+ That there should be a big increase in the visitation of disorderly houses is to be expected. As we have seen, the migration is as yet largely that of single men and of men who have left their families behind them. As with the other foreign groups who have migrated to America, there is an entire break up of the normal family standard. It is therefore inevitable that with higher wages and with the prevailing housing and rooming congestion vice should flourish. The fact that in spite of the tremendous increase in disorderly houses there is some decline in arrests on charges of prostitution can be interpreted only in terms of the laxity and tolerance of the police department. This also accounts for the fact that while during the seven months of 1914-1915 five gambling houses were raided and thirty-one persons were arrested for gambling, there were no raids or arrests during the same period this year.