London Labour and the London Poor
A Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That Will Not Work.
By Henry Mayhew.
London: Griffin, Bohn, and Company, Stationers' Hall Court. 1862.

[digitised copy kindly provided by Les Butler, ed.]

     Prostitution In London

• Introduction
• Seclusives, or those that live in private houses and apartments
• Degree of education amongst prostitutes
  • Degree of instruction amongst prostitutes compared with the degree of instruction among women not prostitutes, arrested for breaking various laws (London). The city not included
  • Degree of instruction amongst virtuous women brought up in the police courts for various offences during the years elapsing from 1837 to 1854 inclusive
• Board lodgers
• Sailors' women
• Soldiers' women
• The happy prostitute
• The sensitive, sentimental, weak-minded, impulsive, affectionate girl
• Thieves' women
• Park women, or those who frequent the parks at night and other retired places
• The dependants of prostitutes
  • Bawds
  • Followers of dress-lodgers
  • Keepers of accommodation houses
  • Procuresses, pimps, and panders
  • Fancy-men
  • Bullies
• Clandestine prostitutes
• Female operatives
• Ballet-girls
• Maid-servants
• Ladies of intrigue and houses of assignation
• Cohabitant prostitutes
• Narrative of a gay woman at the west end of the metropolis
• Criminal returns
  • Number of disorderly prostitutes taken into custody during the years 1850 to 1860, and their trades
  • Larceneries from the person by prostitutes, during the years 1850 to 1860
  • Numbers of persons taken into custody for keeping common brothels, during the years 1850 to 1860
  • Numbers of persons reported to the police as lost or missing, and the number found and restored by the police, during the years 1841 to 1860
  • Number of suicides committed during the years 1841 to 1860
  • Rape
  • Concealing the births of infants
  • Special arrangements of police made, and at what places, to prevent disorder and enforce the law
  • Comparative returns of prostitutes known to the police, at four different periods, within the last seventeen years
  • Table showing the degree of instruction of the persons taken into custody during a period of ten years - 1850 to 1860
  • Traffic in foreign women