SEX IN INDUSTRY.
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says West,* “the one great danger to watch against is the supervention of phthisis.”
THE MANUFACTURE OF TEXTILE FABRICS.
The manufacture of textile fabrics, considered as an avenue of production of the several causes of ill health already dwelt upon, may be looked upon as including them all, and hence becomes worthy the closest attention; not only as a source of results so unfortunate, but also as being one of exceeding magnitude, extending its deleterious influence to a wider range than any other equally injurious employ.
While, with exceptions, it may be fairly considered, in the average, as not an extremely laborious employ, either in this country or abroad, for the younger portion of the female operatives employed therein, and in some of its processes in particular, there is a degree of toil disproportionate to the condition and capacity of those engaged; while
* Op. oit. p, 45.