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acute pneumonia, and, as has been already remarked, chronic catarrh.”
The processes of “ carding ” and “ stripping,” even since the introduction of Wellman’s patent stripper, etc., still fill the air with innumerable particles of dust which penetrate everywhere, and, in some mills, in a few minutes sufficiently coat a smooth plate of metal to permit the finger to make marks thereon; while a sunbeam discloses the extent to which the atmosphere breathed by operatives is charged with the foreign substances.*
A careful inspection of a very large number of factories has established as the chief non-liygienic conditions, the excess of flying dust, or “ fluff; ” the extreme heat maintained in all departments; the uncomfortable and unhealthful humidity, particularly of
* Dr. Horatio Bridge of New-York City, a classmate, has recently published an admirable translation of the work of Dr. Gottlieb Merkel of Nuremberg, on diseases caused by the inhalation of dust. New-York Medical Itecord, 1874 .
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