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    ( 352 )

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    LXIL—-OPEN COUNCIL.

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    - . . num LADIES b I er wish in , to an ...

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    Infant Mortality. \ and Ladies its There...

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    ( 352 )

    ( 352 )

    Lxil—-Open Council.

    LXIL— -OPEN COUNCIL . ( As these pages themselves are intended responsible for general for the discussion opinions expressed , the Editors . ) do not hold ¦ 6 ?

    - . . Num Ladies B I Er Wish In , To An ...

    - . . LADIES I wish , to call attention entitled to a statement Infant whicli appeared and its in your " _IsTovember ( 181 )

    I t is b there er , in an reresen article tedthat it " is a common Mortality case for the mothers Causes , p . young . families to be p compelled , to go out The famil work , of because the industrious their husbands cannot

    earn enough to support them . " y working man is sacrificed inclined because to think his wages that this are statement insufficient has for been their made support without . " considera-I am

    t ion general , or perhaps rule , thoug without h it a is knowled probabl l g y true of facts in some , for it instances 105 seems to . me k incorrect it is likel as

    enoug In In Warwickshire h Dorsetshire to be the , case , the h , bu pitmen t happ in abourers il the y labour Dorsetshire collieries earn _' earn onl is h y an from exceptional . would 4 a s . to wee 5 s . a , spot day , . or for from the y

    su sometimes 165 pport . to 205 of their . they a week families weave for ; in four yet their the days wives c and ' ottages in almost infant , — but enoug alw o schools ften ays one they work The go at to ri fact suppose bb the on is weaving factories the , ;

    s leaving that pend their so the families ir children h on would their at be own home badl p , leasures off if the during women the did two . not days work ' rest . the , y take men ,

    labour In . Lincolnshire the mothers , wh o ere f young the labourers y families earn seldom only go 145 out . a to week work for , except six days at '

    a harvest 145 s the , children time k is , when grow they h to p bring often into fine take a strong their famil bab men ies . into In w the London omen fields , it the i with s evident wives them often , yet t

    out . a wee to work enoug but it seems to up me that this y upon is made necessary , , not so much for g by the thou insufficiency h lod , ing in of London the wages is much , as dearer by the than drinking in the habi country ts of the the wa men ges ,

    are hi know gher g , so instance t g hat the of difference a London is shoemaker made up . who earned 255 . a week , during

    I an eight months of 195 of 6 the d . all year the , and 8 s . round a week whose during wife the yet other went four , out making charing an year

    aver at l « s ag . a e day , leaving . her infant , six months , old , at a charitable institution to be taken end to care this of bad . I venture practice to , is think not , so therefore much , hi that gher what wages is required as high to er put mora an l

    in feeling If drink a . table and could another be exhibited of the wages , of the earned money by their spent wives by married , I suspect working that men the

    induced their two Perhaps amounts children , to bring if would 's men health home were balance by a made larger depriving pretty more share evenl them full of y their y . of awar a wages e mother of the for ' s the h care arm support , they they mi inflict of ght their be on

    families . Yours & e .

    J . B .

    Infant Mortality. \ And Ladies Its There...

    Infant Mortality . \ and Ladies its There Causes , is much . " Nevertheless good sense , there in Dr . are Leared , I think ' s paper , some on points " Infant which Mortality niay be

    open For to examp discussion le ; Dr . . Leared says , No _precautions will prevent , although

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/64/