Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781230009643

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...with the regulations " applicable to ' common women.' " The registration is almost always voluntary; ' oflicial ' " registration only takes place in respect of the small number " of women who, openly given up to a life of vice, already " often arrested for acts of prostitution, or affected with con" tagious diseases, refuse to submit themselves to the regula" tions which the public authorities are bound to enforce in " the interests of order and of public health. " Common women, on registration, are divided into two " classes--' isolated' ones (isolees), that is, those who have a " private abode, whether taken on lease or fora short period, " or merely furnished rooms, and those who live in a licensed Compare Dr. J eannel on pages 71 and 201. " house ('filles de maison'). At the time of registration the APPENDIX. " women signify the class they wish to belong to, and can " subsequently pass from one class to the other on making a " declaration provided for the purpose." 2. Regulations imposed on the Women themselves. As to women living by themselves--REGULATIONS At the time of the registration of each a. card is given, i;(;' M; __ her, containing on one side a list of the regulations binding upon her, and upon the other, her name, abode, number in the register, and a list of the months of the years in one column, followed by four blank columns, the first and third column to be filled in by the inspecting surgeon with the date of the first fortnightly and the second fortnightly examinations respectively, and the second and fourth column with the results of the examinations...