Fellow of the College of Physicians and Member of the College
of Surgeons, attached to London Hospital and Brompton,
Hospital.

"Would this be a fair way of putting it: It is not the actual
work of people in shops, but having to be there and standing
about in bad air; it is the long hours which is the injurious
part of it?"

"Quite so; the prolonged tension."


_Official Information from the Reports of the [German] Factory
Inspectors_. Berlin, Bruer, 1898

The inspector in Hesse regards a reduction of working hours to
ten for women in textile mills as "absolutely imperative," as
the continuous standing is very injurious to the female
organism.


_Fourteenth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography_.
Berlin, September, 1907. Vol. II, Sec. IV. Fatigue Resulting
from Occupation. Berlin, Hirschwald, 1908

Doctor Emil Roth:

"My experience and observations do not permit me to feel any
uncertainty in believing that the injury to health inflicted
upon even fully capable workers by the special demands of a