CHAPTER XVII. PRUSSIA.

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.-- Recent Regulations. 219