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270 A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS.
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Into On My Other Retirement Housesi From...
and As sleej regards ) ing the want ( for of bed air -rooms and ventilation they do no in t the deserve work-rooms to be
called ); they have pens been described—and I believe correctly—as " scarcelfit for is to sleep in ; " so smallso " packed"
y pg , ,, like the work- room re _& uired _, so v t itiated o do the with wor foul k of air two . so Just it is as one so
y expec oung ted person that the number q of . cubic feet of fresh , air which is necessary for the health of one single individual , must serve
app here lies for to three nearly or all fo the ur . fashionable And this remark dress-making , I am h sorry ouses to at say the , West EndNo marvel is it then that pale worn-out forms
. s em hould erge from " dea these th in portal the work s on -room a Sunday . " , and that the end
I have lately received a newspaper from the West Indies , from an island where , until within the last few years , slavery shall
now I mean quo black te what slavery they — existed of the to E an nglish immense white slaveiy extent . system I .
fashionable " The death West of a End young milliner female , Mary Madame Ann Elise Walkl a ey Frenchwoman , In the service from of a .
exhaus sensation tion , caused in London by over The -work facts and , the connected breathing with , of the impure extinction air , has , of caused this
a . reveal young a creature state of , as things they about were developed which the fine at the ladies inquiry who before employ the these Coroner court _,, the
milliner ' s can know nothing . Dr . Lankester has made a report on 4 subject working which in two will rooms deepen which public contained indignation 3630 . ' I cubic found feet 60 peop of air le , ' and he says this ,.
, ; remarked gives but that little in more a sanitary than 60 point feet of of view air to these each rooms person hav . ' e even It has less been air
than le the were Black thrust , Hole yet of Calcutta of them ; into died which , a , horrible though death double in the the number course of of
peop , many working a single ni continuousl ght . English y in girls such , or an indeed atmosp human here beings as these of any rooms age or in sex the , had
partaken establishment of a of portion Madam of e some Elise , deadl are y as narc virtuall otic . y But poisoned tlie impurity as if they of the art
atmosphere where the labour is performed is not all . The sleeping apments are nearly as bad as the work-shops . Dr . Lankester found 19 rooms them _,,
some single bedded , some double bedded , and some with three beds in . The antity room of in air which during the the deceased nihtbut slept it was is the too duration small to of afford labour the that requisite is the-
event most qu exhausting in the fashionable , and on world the g eve these ; of a unhappy Drawing beings -room , pay or the any penalty other excitin of loss g :
dissimilar of life or to health those . in It force is time respecting , to subject loding such -houses places for to the regulations idity not or
g ; cup , induce ignorance , change or both , of those t under who the live on the labour of repressiv of others e laws , will never
Thisprinciple a might , be excep advantageously extended pressure to all places where . large num'bers of people are collected . The first duty of the state is to preserve
human life from reckless sacrifice . " JBridge-Towii Times , Barbadoes _, July 21 s , 1863 .
leading An American article on paper the was sam also e subj sent ect to , even me , which very much contained more a
270 A Season With The Dressmakers.
270 A SEASON WITH THE DRESSMAKERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 270, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/54/
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