CHAPTER XVII.

THE PLAIN FACTS AND FIGURES OF PROSTITUTION. Statistics of Westminster, Brompton, and Pimlico.—Methods p. 281 of conducting the nefarious Business.—Aristocratic Dens.—The High Tariff.—The Horrors of the Social Evil.—The Broken Bridge behind the Sinner.—“Dress Lodgers.”—There’s always a “Watcher.”—Soldiers and Sailors.—The “Wrens of the Curragh”