life expectancy
singhals
Anyone have any data on the life expectancy of a professional prostitute
in the 1910-1930 time period?
In 1900 the woman was a 15-yr-old living at home with her parents. In
1910, she's showing up three states away as a prostitute, married, one
child one living (but no marriage record, no child present with her).
In 1918, she's named in her father's obituary. She then vanishes from
sight.
She's not being named publically because IF she has living descendants,
naming her would be tactless.
Before we spend too much time looking under rocks, what are the chances
she'd have died between 1918 and 1930?
Thanks.
Robert Melson
You _do_ come up with some doozies!
Thinking of the state of medicine during the period in question, the prevalence
of (ahem!) STDs, for which there really were no cures, I'd go with short,
brutish and nasty. If she was 15 in '00, I'd say she didn't survive to 1930
for certain and probably didn't make it to '25.
Opinions, of course, are like portions of the anatomy - everybody has one.
FWIW, that's mine.
Sportin' Ol' Bob
(but he's _still_ an SOB!)
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Sharon
then between a professional, and an amateur? ;-)
Sharon
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> Anyone have any data on the life expectancy of a
> professional prostitute
> in the 1910-1930 time period?
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"singhals" <sing...@erols.com> wrote in message
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Hard data, no. Besides STDs back then, there's also the great flu epidemic
that swept the planet after WWI, which killed more people than the actual
war. It was not unheard of for a heretofore healthy person to start feeling
ill in the morning, and be dead by that evening.
So, there are lots of reasons why she could have died in that timeframe, and
not necessarily because of her profession.
Sarns
Quite sad, but prostitution was often used as means of survival back then,
which i believe was probably even more so warranted than prostitutes
nowadays...at least there is some forms of government help for the down and
out now.
My own g grandmother was a 'barmaid' at one stage...she had a few
illigitimate children including my grandmother... it's an interesting part
of genealogy..looking at situations in different eras.
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Hugh Watkins
> "singhals" <sing...@erols.com> wrote in message
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>>
>>Anyone have any data on the life expectancy of a professional prostitute
>>in the 1910-1930 time period?
>>
>>In 1900 the woman was a 15-yr-old living at home with her parents. In
>>1910, she's showing up three states away as a prostitute, married, one
>>child one living (but no marriage record, no child present with her). In
>>1918, she's named in her father's obituary. She then vanishes from sight.
>>
>>She's not being named publically because IF she has living descendants,
>>naming her would be tactless.
>>
>>Before we spend too much time looking under rocks, what are the chances
>>she'd have died between 1918 and 1930?
>>
>>Thanks.
>
>
> Quite sad, but prostitution was often used as means of survival back then,
> which i believe was probably even more so warranted than prostitutes
> nowadays...at least there is some forms of government help for the down and
> out now.
>
> My own g grandmother was a 'barmaid' at one stage...she had a few
> illigitimate children including my grandmother... it's an interesting part
> of genealogy..looking at situations in different eras.
it seems to be a matter of tempeament too
some families are the same with generations of unmarried mothers
or all married 3 monhs before the first birth
Hugh W