Number of Public Prostitutes.--Opinion of Chief of Police in
1856.--Effects on Prostitution of Commercial Panic of 1857.--
Extravagant Surmises.--Police Investigation of May, 1858.--
Private Prostitutes.--Aggregate Prostitution.--Visitors from
the Suburbs of New York.--Strangers.--Proportion of
Prostitutes to Population.--Syphilis.--Danger of Infection.--
Increase of Venereal Disease.--Statistics of Cases treated in
ISLAND HOSPITAL, BLACKWELL'S ISLAND.--Primary Syphilis and
its Indications.--Cases of Venereal Disease in Public
Institutions.--Alms-house.--Work-house.--Penitentiary.--Bellevue
Hospital.--Nursery Hospital, Randall's Island.--Emigrants'
Hospital, Ward's Island.--New York City Hospital.--
Dispensaries.--Medical Colleges.--King's County Hospital.--
Brooklyn City Hospital.--Seamen's Retreat, Staten Island.--
Summary of Cases treated in Public Institutions.--Private
Treatment.--Advertisers.--Patent Medicines.--Drug-stores.--
Aggregate of Venereal Disease.--Probabilities of Infection.--
Cost of Prostitution.--Capital invested in Houses of
Prostitution and Assignation, Dancing-saloons, etc.--Income
of Prostitutes.--Individual Expenses of Visitors.--Medical
Expenses.--Vagrancy and Pauper Expenses.--Police and
Judiciary Expenses.--Correspondence with leading Cities of
the United States.--Estimated Prostitution throughout the
Union.--Remarks on "Tait's _Prostitution in Edinburgh_."--
Unfounded Estimates.--National Statistics of Population,
Births, Education, Occupation, Wages, Pauperism, Crime,
Breweries and Distilleries, and Nativities. 575