26 THE JUKES. 



greater. Taking into further consideration that the women find in- 

 dulgences in a career of harlotry which their brothers can only obtain 

 by purchase with the proceeds of theft, it is a fair inference to make 

 that prostitution in the women is the analogue of crime and pauperism 

 in the men, the difference in the career being only an accident of 

 sex. The identity of the three, as distributed between the sexes, 

 is established by finding that in this family they have a common 

 origin, an equal ratio, and yield to the same general reformatory 

 treatment — steady, continuous, and fatigue-producing labor. 



From the consideration of the special cases detailed, we now 

 come to formulating a few tentative inductions on the subject. 



1. Harlotry may become a hereditary characteristic and be per- 

 petuated without any specially favoring environment to call it into 

 activity. (See case i.) 



2. In most cases the heredity is also accompanied by an envi- 

 ronment which runs parallel to it, the two conditions giving cumu- 

 lative force to a career of debauch. 



3. Where there is chastity in the heredity, the same is also accom- 

 panied with an environment favorable to such habits. 



4. Where the heredity and the environment are in the direction 

 of harlotry, if the environment be changed at a sufficiently early 

 period, the career of prostitution may be arrested and the sexual 

 habits amended. (See case 6.) 



5. That early marriage tends to extinguish harlotry. 



6. That prostitution in the woman is the analogue of crime and 

 pauperism in the man. 



7. As a corollary of this last, a practical rule may be laid down 

 to help us estimate the chances of reforming a boy who has com- 

 mitted his first offense. If his elder sisters are reputable, his 

 chances are good ; but if they be not reputable, the chances of his 

 becoming an habitual criminal are increased proportionately. 



Illegitimacy. — Where harlotry rather than prostitution is common, 

 it is to be expected that the number of illegitimate children will be 

 numerous. Of the 535 children born 335 were legitimate, 106 ille- 

 gitimate and 84 unknown. Discarding from the computation the 

 84 who are not ascertained, we get 23.50 per cent as the proportion 

 of illegitimacy, counting both sexes. 



