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SEX IN INDUSTRY.
under better sanitary conditions than muscle- workers. Brain-workers can adapt their labor to their moods and hours, and periods of greatest capacity for labor, better than muscle-workers.” The death-rate tables* of three hundred inhabitants of Preston, Eng., one hundred being taken from each of the three classes, — the gentry, tradesmen, and operatives, — give surprising results against the operative class, both as to longevity and youthful deaths.
These and similar observations seem to stimulate at least a doubt whether the dangers to forming Avoman, conversely of the foregoing proposition, do not equally reside in industry and education. That some of the avenues of industry embrace processes potent in their aggressions against the integrity of female health, with even those of advanced years, has been frequently determined.
But, over and beyond the lines of simi-
* See Prin. Mental Hygiene, D. A. Gorton, M.D., p. 11G.