"phe apprenticeship system in. cloud of dust which perpetually: arises from the wheels as the metal is polished with the use of abrasives. The dust never settles, for the shaft ing, being attached to the wooden celling of a building not desigred, to carry. an industrial load, causes a Vibration which keeps the dust always The effect of these conditions upon young workers can be imagined, and the sickness rate among them is ¢xtremely high. The report referred to gives details of the different diseases found among the workers in the fa tories examined. Many of them are directly attributable to the conditions under which the youths have to earn their Keep. Nasal, respiratory and Tung complaints are common among them, as can be understood when it realized that the atmosphere they breathe for eleven hours of the day ig laden with moral dust and the fumes of acids and other chemicals
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