Note 376 — Chapter VI · REGULATION AND ORDER—BORDELLS AND SEGREGATION

The only exhaustive statistical study of the living problem that I found is that made by Johansson for the Swedish Commission (Report, Vol III, pp. 175, etc.) and this deals only with the registered women, relatively few in number. Johansson divides the 400 inscribed women of Stockholm into 5 groups as follows:

I Living in lodgings where they receive customers 16

II Living in girl-houses 98

III Living in families and utilizing hotels 232

IV Living in suburbs and utilizing hotels 23

V Vagrants 31

Of course a girl does not permanently belong to any one group, but may vary from time to time. Group III is most important. At the close of 1904, the police had listed 34 hotels with 405 rooms, utilized by these women. He states that the hotel is conducted “like a factory,” the women being practically in the employ of the proprietors. That is, the enrolled women are operated for third-party profit; less than 4% of them work for themselves.