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there is a, comparison that may rightfully he, and should he drawn, between these employments of women; and it is based solely on their respective effects on the health of the operative. It is to such a distinction, as affecting wages, hours, and the persistence of labor of employees, that we look for a measure of good to the working-girl. A scientific gradation of pursuits as to their salubrity or non-salubrity, their physiological effects, will sooner or later be effected, and govern, to a great degree, the participation therein of the forming female. The influences * affecting moral conditions in various
* While these last pages have been going through the press, I have received a letter from a widely-known physician in one of the large manufacturing cities of this State; in which, speaking of the evil effects of moral and physical disregard in the want of privies, or the bad location thereof, he says, “A trip to L-to examine the
water-closets of the workshops of this place would pay, or, rather, to see the general lack of all convenience in the shops for women and girls. I am satisfied that a very
large proportion of disease in our L-female population
is due to the fact that so few facilities are afforded women to attend to calls of nature.