| THE AGENCIES AT PRESENT IN OPERATION WITHIN THE METROPOLIS, FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE AND CRIME. |
| By the Rev. William Tuckniss, B.A. |
| PAGE |
| Universal Desire for Investigation | xi |
| Mere Palliatives insufficient to Check the Growth of Crime | xi |
| Decrease of Crime doubtful | xii |
| General Desire to Alleviate Misery | xiii |
| Guthrie on Great Cities | xiv |
| Social Position of London | xv |
| Agencies at Work in London | xvii |
| Their Number and Income | xvii |
| Curative Agencies | xviii |
| British and Foreign Bible Society | xix |
| Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge | xix |
| Institution for Reading the Word of God in the Open Air | xix |
| Theatre Services | xix |
| London City Mission, | xx |
| Church of England Scripture Readers’ Society | xxii |
| Religious Tract Society | xxiii |
| Pure Literature Society | xxiii |
| Preventive Agencies | xxiv |
| National Temperance Society | xxiv |
| United Kingdom Alliance | xxiv |
| Free Drinking Fountain Association | xxv |
| Ragged School Union | xxv |
| Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes | xxv |
| Female Servants’ Home Society | xxvi |
| Female Aid Society | xxvii |
| Training Institutions for Servants | xxvii |
| Field Lane Night Refuges | xxvii |
| Dudley Stuart Night Refuge | xxvii |
| Houseless Poor Asylum | xxviii |
| House of Charity | xxviii |
| Foundling Hospital | xxviii |
| Society for the Suppression of Mendicity | xxviii |
| Association for Promoting the Relief of Destitution | xxviii |
| Association for the Aid and Benefit of Dressmakers and Milliners | xxix |
| Young Women’s Christian Association and West-end Home | xxix |
| Society for Promoting the Employment of Women | xxx |
| Metropolitan Early Closing Association, &c. | xxx |
| Repressive and Punitive Agencies | xxx |
| Society for the Suppression of Vice | xxxi |
| The Associate Institution | xxxi |
| 255 |
| Maid Servants | 257 |
| Ladies of Intrigue and Houses of Assignation | 258 |
| Cohabitant Prostitutes | 259 |
| Narrative of a Gay Woman | 260 |
| Criminal Returns | 263 |
| Traffic in Foreign Women | 269 |
| THIEVES AND SWINDLERS.—By John Binny. |
| Introduction | 273 |
| Sneaks, or Common Thieves | 277 |
| Juvenile Thieves | 277 |
| Stealing from Street Stalls | 277 |
| Stealing from the Till | 278 |
| Stealing from the Doors and Windows of Shops | 279 |
| Stealing from Children | 281 |
| Child Stripping | 281 |
| Stealing from Drunken Persons | 282 |
| Stealing Linen, &c. | 283 |
| Robberies from Carts | 284 |
| Stealing Lead from House-tops, Copper from Kitchens, &c. | 285 |
| Robberies by false Keys | 286 |
| Robberies by Lodgers | 288 |
| Robberies by Servants | 289 |
| Area and Lobby Sneaks | 290 |
| Stealing by Lifting Windows, &c. | 292 |
| Attic or Garret Thieves | 293 |
| A Visit to the Rookery of St. Giles | 294 |
| Narrative of a London Sneak | 301 |
| Pickpockets and Shoplifters | 303 |
| Common Pickpockets | 306 |
| Omnibus Pickpockets | 309 |
| Railway Pickpockets | 310 |
| A Visit to the Thieves’ Dens in Spitalfields | 311 |
| Narrative of a Pickpocket | 316 |
| Horse and Dog Stealers | 325 |
| Horse Stealing | 325 |
| Dog Stealing | 325 |
| Highway Robbers | 326 |
| A Ramble among the Thieves’ Dens in the Borough | 330 |
| Housebreakers and Burglars | 334 |
| Narrative of a Burglar | 345 |
| Narrative of another Burglar | 349 |
| Prostitute Thieves | 355 |
| Prostitutes of the Haymarket | 356 |
| Common Street Walkers | APPENDIX. | Maps and Tables | | Illustrating the Criminal Statistics of each of the Counties of England and Wales in 1851. | | PAGE | | Map showing the Density of the Population | 451 | | Table of ditto | 452 | | Map showing the Intensity of Criminality | 455 | | Table of ditto | 456 | | Map showing the Intensity of Ignorance | 459 | | Table of ditto | 460 | | Table of Ignorance among Criminals | 462 | | Table of Degrees of Criminality | 464 | | Comparative Educational Tables | 465 | | Map showing the Number of Illegitimate Children | 467 | | Table of ditto | 468 | | Map showing the Number of Early Marriages | 471 | | Table of ditto | 472 | | Map showing the Number of Females | 475 | | Table of ditto | 476 | | Map showing Commitals for Rape | 477 | | Table of ditto | 479 | | Map showing Committals for Assault with Intent to Ravish and Carnally Abuse | 481 | | Table of ditto | 482 | | Map showing Commitals for Disorderly Houses | 485 | | Table of ditto | 486 | | Map showing Concealment of Births | 489 | | Table of ditto | 490 | | Map showing attempts at Miscarriage | 493 | | Table of ditto | 494 | | Map showing Assaults with Intent | 497 | | Table of ditto | 498 | | Map showing Committals for Bigamy | 499 | | Table of ditto | 500 | | Map showing Committals for Abduction | 501 | | Table of ditto | 502 | | Map showing the Criminality of Females | 503 | | Table of ditto | 504 |
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