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Om zich goed in dezen toestand in te denken, doe ik het best een officiëel rapport van het vroegere hoofd der Brusselsche politie, Lenaers, aan te halen: "The women in the houses are subjected to obligations without number, they are forced, so to speak, to give themselves up to the first comer, however deep their repugnance to him may be; they are compelled to incur heavy expenses and to submit themselves to the yoke of the keeper of the houses; their liberty of action is exceedingly limited; they must never be seen at the door or windows of the houses; they scarceley ever go out, and then always under the escort of the mistress; in a word, they possess only that amount of liberty, which the mistress chooses to grant them, and the mistresses extend or control their liberty, as it suits their own interests, and without any reference to the will or preferences of the women."
Een der Engelsche rapporteurs op 't congres te Londen, de advocaat W. Fielden Craies zegt o.a. ook dit: "Judging by the large number of prosecutions and sentences under the Vagrancy Act of 1898 the police have a considerable amount of information with respect to persons trading on the vice of others.
Woord Van De Dag