CHAPTER II

VICE resorts:   (b) tenement houses,' hotels, fur¬
nished ROOMS, massage parlors

The general situation in respect to vice resorts other
than parlor houses does not materially differ from the con¬
ditions described in the preceding chapter. Tenements,
hotels, and massage parlors were found to be openly,
flagrantly, and in large numbers utilized for the com¬
mercial exploitation of prostitution in the interest, not
of the woman herself, but of a promoter who drives
her to do her utmost and assists in the work by cun¬
ningly angling for victims for her. The resorts to be
now described were in many, perhaps in most instances,
well known, accessible, and — for the period of this in¬
quiry — usually unmolested.

(i) VICE resorts in tenements

The tenement house law of 1911 defines a tenement
house as a " house or building, or portion thereof, which
is rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is oc¬
cupied as the home or residence of three families or more
living independently of each other, and doing their cook¬
ing upon the premises, or by more than two families upon
any floor so living and cooking, but having a common
right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets or priv-

1 Including apartment houses.

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