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Vagrancy law, 113 -24, 144 , 159 , 365 n.2, 367 n. 20;

arrests, by ward, 120 ;

arrests, by year, 128 ;

challenges to, 119 -26;

defined, 117 -18;

as expedient tool, 118 -26;

as unconstitutional, 120 ;

vagueness of, 117

Vagrant/vagrancy, 114 -17, 119 -28, 211 , 212 , 233 ;

mentioned, 46 , 109 , 191 , 211 , 280 . See also Vagrancy law

Van Allen, Mrs., 312

Van Fost, Ellen and Robert, 314

Van Norden, Sarah, 42

Vanvorst, C. J., 314

Venereal disease, 23 -24, 136 -38, 227 , 232 -34, 289 , 387 nn.50, 55, 58;

by age, 234 ;

medical examinations for, 111 , 137 ;

medical treatment for, 232 -33;

mentioned, 21 , 43 , 111 , 241 , 242 , 280 , 287

Vice, 27 , 177 , 190 , 205 ;

equated with foreigners, poverty, and prostitution, 52 , 186 , 188 , 191 -92, 212

Vice Commission of Chicago, 340 n. 17

Victorian era: attitudes toward women, 5 , 51 , 66 , 133 , 322 . See Men: and Victorian view of sexual nature; Women, nineteenth-century: sexual nature of

Vidal, Gore (Burr ), 11

Violence. See Prostitutes' relationships with men/women: and violence; Rape