1854 Arrests in Boston

Among the Boston city items for 1854, is a list of arrests for crimes for 7 months and 5 days, viz. 12,217!  Of these 735 were for assault and battery, 102 for gambling, Larcenies 864, noise and disorder, 154, night walking 190, vagrants 266, idle and dissolute 62 — Common  drunkards 600!  Drunkards 6983  !!

                                                                (Liberator, Jan 19, 1855, pg 3)