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"report and make such suggestions for alterations
"as may appear to be demanded for securing the
"health of those who occupy these rooms."
As far as my present inquiries extend, it
appears to me that there is much improvement to
be made in the general condition of the workrooms.
There is not sufficient regard paid to the
ventilation of rooms where large numbers of
work-people are employed. Individual instances
have constantly come under my notice where
young people are suffering for want of a sufficient
supply of pure air.
At certain seasons of the year they are employed
for a larger number of hours than is
consistent with health. This is especially the
case with young people who live in the houses
where they are employed. They commence work
at an early hour in the morning, and do not leave
off till a late hour at night, and no time is given
them for exercise in the open air. The result of
such occupation is especially seen in a tendency
to disease of the lungs, and I attribute the great
amount of fatal disease of the lungs in our
Parish especially to this system.
The system of working in rooms lighted with gas
is especially injurious when the most effective means
of getting rid of the poisonous exhalations of gas
are not employed. There are many minor questions
with regard to the employment of young
persons in work-rooms, such as the influence of
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