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The Girl in Industry

Chapter 14: Transcriber's Notes
By Dorothy Josephine Collier
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A study examines the physiological and social effects of industrial employment on adolescent girls, reporting investigations and practical recommendations. It compiles evidence from doctors, welfare workers, unions, and factory observers on common complaints—anaemia, gastric disorders, nervous conditions, and menstrual disturbances—and links them to long hours, early starts, close atmospheres, standing or repetitive work, and irregular or inadequate feeding. The analysis differentiates industries such as textiles, clothing, and munitions and notes variable age incidence and wartime influences. The latter sections offer welfare and workplace reforms including improved meal arrangements, medical supervision, education in hygiene and adjustments to hours and tasks.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Adolescence, vol. i. 167.

[2] Report on Physical Deterioration, 1904, p. 123.

[3] Health and Physique of School Children, by Arthur Greenwood. P. S. King, London, 1913, 1s. net.

[4] Labour Gazette, November 1917.

[5] See The Present Position of the Juvenile Labour Problem, by Frederic Keeling, 1914, 2d.; compare the same author's Child Labour in the United Kingdom, P. S. King, 1914.

[6] Starr, The Adolescent Period, p. 15.

[7] Tarbell, New Ideals in Business, p. 211.

[8] Starr, The Adolescent Period.

[9] Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration, Report, 1904.

[10] A lap is a thick layer of cotton fibre wound on a roller in early stage of preparation.

[11] See below, p. 33.

[12] Cf. the evidence of the British Mission on the output of munitions in France in December 1915, who note the advantage to health accruing from the long dinner hour, generally one and a half hours, and often two hours. (Cd. 8187 of 1916, p. 7.)

[13] "Lancashire Women as Cotton-Piecers," Englishwoman, June 1914.

[14] Keeling, op. cit. p. 7.

[15] Census, Summary Tables, p. 242.

Transcriber's Notes


Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Table I has had the the original headings "Employed." and "Per cent." replaced with "A" and "B" to reduce the table width.

Footnote 11 "See below, p. 33." refers to footnote 12.