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The majority of loose women who ply their trade on the streets in the southern section of the city have been brought to their degraded condition by the use of opium, or by association with users of it." Five years later, the Examiner was appalled at "the horrible condition of the opium-depravity" in Salt Lake City, as illustrated by a raid in which "two white women were found lying on the floor completely under the influence of the drug, and almost in a nude state." In his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives , muckraking journalist Jacob Riis described a house in New York City's "Chinese quarter" inhabited by "women, all white, girls hardly yet grown to womanhood, worshipping nothing save the pipe that has enslaved them body and soul." Riis was disturbed by their equanimity: "Of the depth of their fall no one is more thoroughly aware than these girls themselves

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