CHAPTER X. FRANCE.--PRESENT REGULATIONS.

Number of Prostitutes in Paris.--Their Nativity, Parentage, Education, Age, etc.--Causes of Prostitution.--Rules concerning tolerated Houses.--Maisons de Passe.--Windows.-- Keepers.--Formalities upon granting Licenses.--Recruits.-- Pimps.--Profits of Prostitution.--Inscription.-- Interrogatories.--Nativity, how ascertained.--Obstacles.-- Principles of Inscription.--Age at which Inscription is made.--Radiation.--Provisional Radiation.--Statistics of Radiation.--Classes of Prostitutes.--Visit to the Dispensary.--Visiting Physicians.--Punishment.--Offenses.-- Prison Discipline.--Saint Denis.--Tax on Prostitutes.-- Inspectors.--Bon Pasteur Asylum.--(Note: Duchatelet's Bill for the Repression of Prostitution.) 139