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that main offices, etc., must have. These being the facts, it is doubly interesting to find, that, so purely is the occupation one of the physico-mental activity type, that though in the one case the labor is intermittent, and permissive of rest, and in the other the operator has passed the climacteric, the demands for concentration and co-operative alertness are so great, that both suffer in health in a marked and universally recognized manner. It is but fair that the constrained posture, sedentary habit, obstinate and confirmed constipation, and over-heat of the rooms, which very generally affect the operator, should be given due place in the causative effects of this recognized disturbance of health; but to the character of the work itself is the great proportion of the result due.
While, therefore, this particular avenue of employ cannot be looked upon as one of those affecting, to a wide extent, the peculiar sexual function in forming girls, from the fact that comparatively few such are employed therein,
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