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". . . Here is how Dodd begins his An Account of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Magdalen Charity, first published in 1761:
. . . that in the present disordered state of things, there will always be brothels and prostitutes, is a fact but too indisputable, however unpleasing. Any attempt to prevent this evil, would be no less impossible than impolitic. . . .
Thus it was, Dodd reports, that in 1758 seven gentlemen raised 3000 pounds and opened Magdalen House, where, with eight 'unhappy objects' it began to receive these women for rehabilitation. By 1763, 483 had been received, and 370 discharged to better lives as wives, servants or, in fewer numbers, to death or for "faults and irregularities. . . ."