Note 268 — CRIMINALITY. (continued 2)
Henry P. (Henry Pomeroy) Horton translation
The English penitentiary statistics show whether the female prisoners are prostitutes or not. As we have seen above (p. 499) the percentage of prostitutes rose in the period between 1894–1900 to 15% of the total. The figures bearing upon earlier years, however, show a much higher percentage; in the years 1836–1854 25.2% of the women convicted (in London) were prostitutes268; in the years 1858–1862 prostitutes made up 24.7% of the women arrested.269