... years of age, roused from their beds at an early hour, hurried to the mills and kept there, with an interval of only forty minutes, till a late hour at night: kept, moreover, in an atmosphere impure, not only as the air of a town, not only defective... The Effects of Arts, Trades, and Professions: And of Civic States and Habits ... - Página 80por Charles Turner Thackrah - 1832 - 238 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...atmosphere loaded with noxious dust." " Health," he exclaims, "cleanliness, mental improvement—how are they regarded ? Recreation is out of the question....for meals. The very period of sleep, so necessary to the young, is too often abridged. Nay, children are sometimes worked even in the night! Human beings... | |
| Charles Wing - 1967 - 700 páginas
...from their beds at an early hour, hurried to the mills, and kept there, with an interval of only forty minutes, till a late hour at night — kept, moreover, in an atmosphere loaded with noxious dust." " Health,"' he exclaims, " cleanliness, mental improvement — how are they... | |
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