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INFANT MORTALITY AND ITS CAUSES. 181
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* , About One-Fourth Of All The Children...
life to work abroadand liome duties take a secondary place . It is greatlto be dep , lored that any circumstances should compel
married y women to this . It is sad to think that certain branches of our commercial greatness depend on what is truly a social eviL
The family of the industrious working man is sacrificed because his wages are insufficient for their support . Why this should be ,
is a question for merchant princes and political economists to decide * At present we have onlto do with the results .
The factory system y clearly proves the present and prospective evils of withdrawing girls of a tender age from the influences of
home . Little creatures who , if guided hy their own instincts , would hardl are compelled y devote to ten spend minutes a great to one part train of the of tho day ug in ht monotonous or one _occi labour _^ ation _, .
There is here no real childhoodthere is no transition period . The influences of home have never , been truly experiencedthe duties
, which can be learned only at the domestic hearth are unknown , the irl becomes a womanbut without the finer instincfcs and sympathies
• g which adorn her sex . , They have been crushed out by pre-occupation and routine . She is selfishcalculating , masculine , and even
violent in her conduct ; such at least , has been officially described as a common condition of females in the manufacturing districts .
Great exertions are at present being made by noble-minded gentlewomen to instruct women in certain mechanical arts . It is
argued that since women greatly exceed men in number , it is desirable to place in a position of independence those who , from accident
or choiceremain unmarried . It is difficult to say how far these excellent intentions , have been attended with success . It is said that as
women instinctively look to marriage as a release from any occupation but that of a domestic nature , they fail in applying themselves
so as to attain the proficiency of men employed in the same trade or pursuit . Whether the competition of female with male labour may
not injuriously affect the well-being of families , by depreciating the women labour of are men compelled , is a larger to toil question for dail . y On bread the , other the proverbiall hand , as numbers y wretched o £
wages of the needle demand that some channel less dismally hopeless her of the , sister less sempstress unrequiting born in a is better with ly toilsome women position , should of . a With lower be few opened class exceptions , teaching . What , the is the with pay art
and When position available of the governess domestic occupations are notoriousl are y inadequate to be preferred . to all
others . To assist , in the care of families will always yield congenial employmentas well as training of the most useful kind , for
numbers of , single females . We shall itulate the modes in which neglect and ignorance
trar act - in General destroy recap — ing " The infant fate life of , the partl infant y using which the the words mother of the abandons Regis- ,
: not in the streetsbut in the house , when she works in the field or ,
the factory , or when she neglects cleanliness , is early death . _" To this
Infant Mortality And Its Causes. 181
INFANT _MORTALITY AND ITS CAUSES . 181
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/37/
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