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0 Domestic Service.
WORK AND OVERWORK . . A- Meeting was held _" on Monday , July _IStli , at tlie h College of t the Ladies Dr "
R Sanit ichardson ary Association on " Wor , k _! N and o . 5 Overwork , Hanover . " Sq Dr uare . Lankester , ear occup a Lec ied ure the y . chair . on In the the occasion course , . of his preparatory remarks , Dr . Richardson in observed the india that
rubber some trade balls s , used ere b y children essarily as unhealth playthings y ; f , which the ins material tance , , deadl in making order poison to be mad that e -
inhale thoug supple h d , had the bthe process to be workmen di was pped but into had a a so momentary composition dreadful an one effect , the was upon minute so them portion y as a to ine cause vitabl the y , y
rarel most y distressing have disorders children diseases to ; which insanity . These they is extremel are men subject seldo y common m terminate marry among , or in , if an them they earl , and , deat they the h .
A painful san gain d over , in le the the iece making pap of er , machinery thoug of sand h - it paper is mi in g , ht the fact be siftin always effected g of done quite the pulverized b innocuousl little boys y g y lass b who y or a -
He very constantl had simp y known inhaling p three the boys particle in s , one , thus famil become y , who liable all to perished fatal y lung premature disease , l s y . , . such theseillnes &
throug perfectl and death h engag inno are cent insep ing in in arable this itself process ; but and it which . is From not however so occupations with dressmaking it may be , f as ound an em in pl j , ur yment ious ,
latel ¦ certainl she whose had y onl sad y y died y need too fate forcible not had actu be caused al so a . proof , Tliat her tyr , in to it the and be sometimes case recentl he , of trusted the y is almost poor so that , we g as irl the had , much Mary panic unfortunatel spoken Ann it had W of alkley y given as had if _,
flash rise to and would exp an losion not pass —and off mar as then panics ; , nothing that too often attention left behind did , mer ; but ely been like that fireworks at painfull least — so a
drawn much good to the would subject arise , it would out of not evil , be suffered again having to drop until so something y at least had been done towards remedying such a state of things for the i I
future in He every . believed occupation that , of one overw of the ork great . Among evils the of very the age highest was the , the competition most prevalence excessive for _^
p broug labour lace ht and . thi As power s regarded subject was so so authors great powerfull , , that too , y statesmanshi the befo very re the gentlemen p publi involved ? To c , of woul the d press their they who own dare lives had to what they said with what they were doing bring
ni to compare the ht b test ni of ht what knew was no a fit amount of mind of toil no ; they rest who of , bod day y b ? y d A ay gain , and , among often gy g , peace , eihtfact which speaks
for medical itself . men It was the the average same age in tr at ades death . The was blacksmith thirty-g , he , whose a lot , according to the poets , is so happy a one , in works ordinaril declines y about prematurel one-fourth more Dress than
mence makers he ought , at in to this all do , a respect and first his - , rate do vigour but business follow consequence , the without comm a on very rule . large They cap cannot ital y . ; com and - ,
consequently , if any one her wishe elf s to and set those up for whom herself she ; it is onl loys y b that y very she gre can at
hope effort divide , to and compete overwork them with all for the the first twenty s -class -five business or thirty that great is done emp cap . italists But , it | , is who neither now § among lives
naturalsafenor moralto extract capital from overtaxed human | , and thoug , h , slavery , which , is the purest that and and basest other form less of such laring economy form of , jjf
this has lasted mistaken for and ages evil and policy still lasts is doomed , to every pass away as g enlightenment ;
progresses Less guilty . , but even more "baneful in its effects than tlie oppression of
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436 " _MEETINGS OF THE MONTH . I
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/66/
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