_British Sessional Papers_. Vol. XII. 1886. Report from Select
Committee on Shop Hours Regulation Bill

Witness, W. Abbott, M.D.

"Does their employment injuriously affect them, as
child-bearing women in after years?"

"According to all scientific facts, it would do so."

"And you, as a medical man of a considerable number of years'
experience, would not look to girls who have been worked so
many hours in one position as the bearers of healthy, strong
children?"

"I should not."

"Then it naturally follows, does it not, that this is a very
serious matter in the interest of the nation as a whole, apart
from the immediate injury to the person concerned?"

"Yes. As regards the physical condition of the future race."


_British Sessional Papers_. Vol. XII, 1895. Report from the
Select Committee on Shops. Early Closing Bill

Witness, Dr. Percy Kidd, M.D., of the University of Oxford,