, Ch. V). This is exactly the same proportion as
Tait found among prostitutes generally, half a century earlier,
in Edinburgh. Sanger found that of 2000 prostitutes in New York
as many as 1238 were born abroad (706 in Ireland), while of the
remaining 762 only half were born in the State of New York, and
clearly (though the exact figures are not given) a still smaller
proportion in New York City. Prostitutes come from the
North--where the climate is uncongenial, and manufacturing and
sedentary occupations prevail--much more than from the South;
thus Maine, a cold bleak maritime State, sent twenty-four of
these prostitutes to New York, while equidistant Virginia, which
at the same rate should have sent seventy-two, only sent nine;
there was a similar difference between Rhode Island and Maryland
(Sanger, _History of Prostitution_, p. 452). It is instructive to
see here the influence of a dreary climate and monotonous labor
in stimulating the appetite for a "life of pleasure." In France,
as shown by a map in Parent-Duchatelet's work (vol. i, pp. 37-64,
1857), if the country is divided into five zones, on the whole
running east and west, there is a steady and progressive decrease
in the number of prostitutes each zone sends to Paris, as we
descend southwards. Little more than a third seem to belong to
Paris, and, as in America, it is the serious and hard-working
North, with its relatively cold climate, which furnishes the
largest contingent; even in old France, Dufour remarks (_op.
cit._, vol. iv, Ch. XV), prostitution, as the _fabliaux_ and
_romans_ show, was less infamous in the _langue d'oil_ than in
the _langue d'oc_, so that they were doubtless rare in the
South. At a later period Reuss states (_La Prostitution_, p. 12)
that "nearly all the prostitutes of Paris come from the
provinces." Jeannel found that of one thousand Bordeaux
prostitutes only forty-six belonged to the city itself, and
Potton (Appendix to Parent-Duchatelet, vol. ii, p. 446) states
that of nearly four thousand Lyons prostitutes only 376 belonged
to Lyons. In Vienna, in 1873, Schrank remarks that of over 1500
prostitutes only 615 were born in Vienna. The general rule, it
will be seen, though the variations are wide, is that little more
than a third of a city's prostitutes are children of the city.

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