APPENDIX 1:
HOUSE OF REFUGE COLLECTIVE INTAKE PROFILE, 1835
Upon intake, information supplied by the inmate or officials was recorded in narrative form, with brieffollow-up entries added later. It does not appear that information was taken in a systematic manner.
Number of girls admitted | 59 |
Number of cases where suspected prostitution indicated in record | 34 |
Ages | 9 (1 girl) |
12 (2) | |
13 (3) | |
14 (5) | |
15 (9) | |
16 (8) | |
17 (4) | |
18 (2) | |
Nativity of girl | American: 26 |
Foreign: 4 (Irish 3, English 1) | |
Not known: 4 |
Nativity of parents | Both parents native: 15 | |
Both parents foreign: 4 (Irish 2, German 1, Dutch 1) | ||
Father foreign/mother native: 5 (Irish 2, English 2, Scot 1) | ||
Mother foreign/father native: 0 | ||
Not clear from intake: 10 | ||
Status of parents | Father dead: 8 | |
Mother dead: 3 | ||
Both dead: 11 | ||
Parents separated: 5 | ||
Home life | Father drinks: 2 | |
Mother drinks: 1 | ||
Abuse in home: 6 | ||
Mother unhappy: 4 | ||
Runaway: 7 | ||
Occupational information, father | None/not known: 18 | |
Seaman: 2 | ||
All others, 1 each: | ||
Lamplighter, Works in store, Boat builder, Boating, Rigger, Grocer/silverplater, Laborer, Tailor/fiddler, Public house/speculator, Coach maker, Segar store, Flour merchant, Newspaper carrier, Chair painter | ||
Occupational information, mother | None/not known: 21 | |
Prostitute: 2 | ||
Boardinghouse: 2 | ||
Service: 2 | ||
Works, unsure: 1 | ||
Other: Cook 1, Dressmaker 1, Tailoress 1, Sickly 1, Almshouse 2 | ||
Occupational information, girl | None/not known: 9 |
Prostitute: 7 | |
Servant: 10 | |
Tailoress: 3 | |
Fiddler: 1 | |
Childcare: 1 | |
Servant/seamstress: 1 | |
Fur/capmaker: 1 | |
Factory worker: 1 | |
Causes of prostitution | Raised in brothel: 2 |
Sister at brothel and stayed there: 1 | |
Family associated with brothel: 1 | |
Both parents died, so began: 5 | |
Loneliness after death of parent: 1 | |
Bad treatment at home: 1 | |
Unhappy living with brother: 1 | |
Problems with parents: 1 | |
Conflict with pious mother: 1 | |
Abuse by parent: 1 | |
Incest: 1 | |
Seduction by family friend: 1 | |
Seduction by cousin: 1 | |
Seduction by employer: 3 | |
Economic loss: 3 | |
Bad company: 8 | |
Mentally ill: 1 | |
Doesn't say: 1 | |
Nature of prostitution | Been in brothels before Refuge: 21 |
Assignation house or freelance: 4 | |
Suspected prostitution: 8 | |
Prostitution confirmed after leaving Refuge: 1 |
First sexual encounter with | Friend: 5 |
Relative: 2 | |
Employer: 3 | |
Doesn't say: 24 | |
Other personal information on girl | Diseased: 7 |
Drinks: 1 | |
Suicidal: 1 | |
Pregnant: 1 | |
Previously at Almshouse/ penitentiary/hospital: 3 | |
Final information listed | Indentured: 12 |
Ran away from indenture: 6 | |
Sent back from indenture: 1 | |
Returned to parents: 1 | |
Married respectably: 7 (1 before Refuge) | |
Respectable life/occupation: 4 (milliner and domestic service listed) | |
Sent to hospital and escaped: 1 | |
Died: 2 (1 while at Almshouse) |