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SEX IN INDUSTRY.
“ 6. Do you think the present age of thirteen years too early for a child to commence working ‘ full time ’ ?
“ 7. Do you think that the present day’s work, ten and a half hours, is too long for young persons or for grown-up women ? ”
With a careful and highly commendable search for causes of maternal injury and infant mortality, there is here, as elsewhere manifest, a singular neglect of direct and inquisitive attention to the dangers to the basis conditions, on which healthful maternity and infant life depend, and which, moreover, are incident to every one of the sex.
The influences that inhere in special processes or forms of employment, and operate injuriously upon the menstrual function of young females engaged therein, are deserving of, and demand special attention, not less by the gravity than by the extent of their effects.
A process or condition of employ that tends to the prevention or impairment of the normal course of this vital principle in wo-