70 THE JUKES. V 



Cost. 



Value, at $1,200 each j^,4oo.oo 



Number of common prostitutes 50 



Average number of years of debauch 15 



Total number of years of debauch 750 



Cost of maintaining each per year $300.00 



Cost of maintenance 225,000.00 



Number of women specifically diseased 40 



Average number of men each woman contaminates with permanent .... 



disease 10 



Total number of men contaminated 400 



Number of wives contaminated by above men 40 



Total number of persons contaminated 440 



Cost of drugs and medical treatment during rest of life, at ^200 each 88,000.00 



Average loss of wages caused by disease during rest of life, in years 3 



Total years of wages lost by 400 men 1,200 



Loss, at ^500 a year 600,000.00 



Average number of years withdrawn from productive industry by 



each courtesan 10 



Total number of years lost by 50 courtesans 500 



Value estimated at $125 a year 62,500.00 



Aggregate curtailment of life of 490 adults, equivalent to 50 ma- 

 ture individuals 50 



Cash cost, each life at ^1,200 .... 60,000.00 



Aggregate of children who died prematurely 



Average years of life of each child 



Cash cost, each child at $50 



Number of prosecutions in bastardy 



Average cost of each case, $100 



Cost of property destroyed, blackmail, brawls * 



Average capital employed in houses, stock, furniture, etc., for 



brothels 



Compound interest for 26 years at 6 per cent 



Charity distributed by church 



Charity obtained by begging ... 



Total. 



Over a million and a quarter dollars of loss in 75 years, caused 

 by a single family 1,200 strong, without reckoning the cash paid for 

 whiskey, or taking into account the entailment of pauperism and 

 crime of the survivors in succeeding generations, and the incurable 

 disease, idiocy and insanity growing out of this debauchery, and 

 reaching further than we can calculate. It is getting to be time to 

 ask, do our courts, our laws, our alms-houses and our jails deal with 

 the question presented ? 



» One house, with furniture worth $1,100, was burned by a mob. 



