Patriarchal Government.--Ecclesiastical Legislation.--Trade
Guilds.--Enactments in 1700.--Inquiry in 1717.--Enactment in
1792.--Police Order, 1795.--Census.--Increase of illicit
Prostitution.--Syphilis.--Census of 1808.--Ministerial
Rescript and Police Report, 1809.--Tolerated Brothels
closed.--Re-enactment of the Code of 1792.--Ministerial
Rescript of 1839.--Removal of Brothels.--Petitions.--
Ministerial Reply.--Police Report, 1844.--Brothels closed by
royal Command.--Police Embarrassment, and Correspondence with
Halle and Cologne.--Local Opinions.--Public Life in Berlin.--
Dancing Saloons.--Drinking Houses.--Immorality.--Increase of
Syphilis.--Statistics.--Illegitimacy.--Royal Edict of 1851.--
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