Women of the Streets. A Sociological Study of the Common Prostitute

This book is sponsored by the British Social Biology Council and the bulk of it is a restrained and detached account by a research worker, who remains anonymous, of her personal contacts with prostitutes. The initial project for the research which was planned after the War was much more ambitious than it proved possible to carry out, and in the end it had to be drastically curtailed. For the Purpose of this book one can only think this was an advantage, as the smaller numbers with a single investigator, probably enabled the author to keep her account so readable and fresh. An interim report was made in 1951 and covered the first stage of the research :? (a) A comparative study of the statistics relating to prostitution, compiled from the Metropolitan Police records for the two years 1946 and 1949.