Note 103 — Chapter III
Henry P. (Henry Pomeroy) Horton translation
The facts already brought out give rise to the presumption that the ranks of prostitutes are in a very large measure recruited from the less well-to-do classes, where the neglect of children has assumed enormous proportions, and not from the more favored classes where the children are carefully guarded and kept away from unfavorable influences. The correctness of this conclusion is shown by a further examination. According to figures given in the “Reports” quoted above, only 44 out of 3,076 prostitutes, or 1.4%, came from the well-to-do classes.103 In his “Sozialpolitisches Handbuch” Dr. Lux publishes the following table:104