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drinking of easily prepared foods, as bread, tea, and coffee ; and the neglect of meat and fresh-cooked vegetables. Other deranged states of a still worse character are present ; e.g., leucorrhaea, and too frequent and profuse menstruation; cases ■ also of displacement, flexions, and versions of the uterus, arising from the constant standing, and the increased heat of and confinement in the mill.”
That these ill effects are not confined to factory-operatives alone, but affect the large proportion of females of the industrial class, the physician and the philanthropist have long since discovered. The fact is, moreover, now receiving a general recognition.
What, then, are the errors of employ that • entail upon the individual and the community alike these serious results ?
I assume that, —
First is the age at which we permit the young girl to leave a life of animal growth, and become a part of an occupation or a machine.
Second is the disregard (even in defiance of statute) which the managers of our indus-
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