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?
> 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.
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.
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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.
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.
> 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.
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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
