Excerpt from Report of the Social Survey Commission, Toronto: Presented to the City Council, October 4th, 1915 When all these varieties of houses of ill-fame are included, the number, instead of being surprisingly small, is found to be extremely large. The Commission did not attempt a complete enumeration of them. No special purpose' would have been served by making a count, and besides it would have been a very difficult undertaking both on account of the numbers, and because many of such establishments are continually on the move. But from actual information in the possession of the Commission, it would appear that even the statements occasionally made about houses of ill-fame existing by hundreds in Toronto, while certainly grossly exaggerated if a house of ill-fame be understood in the usual sense, are not greatly exaggerated if the definition be extended, as it is in the statute, so as to include all houses or rooms which are used or resorted to for purposes of prostitution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.