Making Both Ends Meet - The income and outlay of New York working girls by Edith Wyatt;Sue Ainslie Clark
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_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, |
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