Note 28 — Chapter I · PROSTITUTION: DEFINITION AND EXTENT

Ibid., p. 49. Carefully compiled tables covering the years, 1870–1904, are given in Prof. Johansson’s report prepared for the Swedish Commission appointed to study the regulation of prostitution. This report is published in four volumes in the Swedish language (Stockholm, 1910). I shall refer to it as Report Swedish Commission. Prof. Johansson’s researches are contained in Vol. III. For the tables here referred to, see pp. 19–20. In 1900–4, 31.7% of the registered prostitutes were dropped from the police rolls and of these 73.4% engaged in some decent occupation. As this volume goes to press, a new book by Prof. Johansson appears: Reglementeringen I Stockholm (Stockholm, 1913). Table 6, p. 62, shows that of all women enrolled between 1859 and 1884, 36.6% left the life (sent home, obtained decent employment, married, etc.). If this is so often the case with the lowest type, whose emergence has been made difficult, it must be far oftener true of the clandestine not branded by the law. “Everything points to the likelihood that, if in their prostitution period they have succeeded in escaping enrolment, their return to a normal mode of life is much facilitated.” Ibid., p. 43.