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VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE IN ENGLISH FACTORIES.
121
Highest temperature in the mills 85 degrees. Lowest, ditto, 52. Mean, ditto, 65, 75.
The following is a tabular view of their condition.
Complaint. | Males. | Females. | ||
Healthy | 89 | 87 | ||
Sickly and delicate | 142 | 172 | ||
Troubled with a cough | 83 | 73 | ||
""scrofula | 15 | 12 | ||
Rheumatic affection | 6 | 1 | ||
Bowel complaint | 1 | 1 | ||
Difficulty of breathing | 30 | 18 | ||
Asthma | 5 | 1 | ||
Consumption | — | 1 | ||
Pains in the head | 7 | 18 | ||
""back | 1 | — | ||
""breast | 7 | 4 | ||
""legs | 1 | 3 | ||
Swelled legs | — | 2 | ||
" ankle-joints | 17 | 23 | ||
" knee-joints | 5 | 6 | ||
Both knees turned in | 15 | 2 | ||
Right knee turned in | 13 | 15 | ||
"""out | 1 | — | ||
Left knee turned in | 1 | 2 | ||
"""out | 1 | — | ||
Lame of both legs | — | 1 | ||
Stunted in growth | 39 | 21 | ||
Bad eyes | 3 | 1 | ||
Swelled neck glands | — | 4 | ||
Lost one arm by machinery | 1 | 1 | ||
" a thumb by do | 1 | — | ||
Lame arm by do | 1 | — | ||
" hand by do | 1 | — | ||
" hip by do | 1 | — | ||
" leg by do | — | 1 | ||
Crooked thigh | 1 | — | ||
Curved legs | 1 | — |