The Archive · 1926

Nature a Bad Guide

As there ie no governmental sanitary inspection of mills and Aictories, managers fall into the habit. of' letting' nature take cave itself, which is a dangerous bush ness, particularly where a thousand Jor more workers are eroded into Jone industrial unit. There is no Hlonger an excuse for any large [factory being without sanitary provisions, such as flush closets ant {latrines of the present time. "Tt fs {particularly noteworthy that ale though Shanghai has an unusually large population of street workers, because of the large numbers of carrier-coolies employed, there totally insufficient sumper Inublic closets in. the settlements. [They exist in Chinese territory, but of a type which menaces public

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