This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...which surround and act upon them are of the most favorable hygienic character. They are regular in all their habits. They are early up 122 COMFORT AND HEALTH. in the morning, and early to bed at night. Their fare is plain, substantial, and good, and their labor is sufficiently active, and sufficiently light to avoid ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...which surround and act upon them are of the most favorable hygienic character. They are regular in all their habits. They are early up 122 COMFORT AND HEALTH. in the morning, and early to bed at night. Their fare is plain, substantial, and good, and their labor is sufficiently active, and sufficiently light to avoid the evils arising from the two extremes of indolence and over-exertion. They are but little exposed to the sudden vicissitudes, and to the excessive heats and colds of the seasons, and they are very generally free from anxious and depressing cares."--Page 13. Upon sundry petitions sent to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, at the last session of the Legislature, praying for a reduction of the hours of labor, a report was made by the special committee, to whom these petitions were referred, and was published by order of the House, March 12, 1845. From this report we quote the following: --" It is the opinion of Dr. Kimball, an eminent Physician of Lowell, with whom the committee had an interview, that there is less o a COMFORT AND HEALTH. 123 sickness among the persons at work in the mills than there is among those who do not work in the mills; and that there is less sickness now than there was several years ago, when the number was much less than at present. This we understood to be, also, the opinion of the City Physician, Dr. Wells."--Page 11. In relation to the general subject here under consideration, the experience of the matrons of the boarding-houses is of much value. Frequent cases of failure of health, if they exist, must of course be known by them; and measures have accordingly been taken to arrive at the results of their observation. Answers to questions proposed to them will be presented hereafter, and to these...
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