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VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE IN ENGLISH FACTORIES.
121
Highest temperature in the mills 85 degrees. Lowest, ditto, 52. Mean, ditto, 65, 75.
The following is a tabular view of their condition.
| Complaint. | Males. | Females. | ||
| Healthy | 89 | 87 | ||
| Sickly and delicate | 142 | 172 | ||
| Troubled with a cough | 83 | 73 | ||
| ""scrofula | 15 | 12 | ||
| Rheumatic affection | 6 | 1 | ||
| Bowel complaint | 1 | 1 | ||
| Difficulty of breathing | 30 | 18 | ||
| Asthma | 5 | 1 | ||
| Consumption | — | 1 | ||
| Pains in the head | 7 | 18 | ||
| ""back | 1 | — | ||
| ""breast | 7 | 4 | ||
| ""legs | 1 | 3 | ||
| Swelled legs | — | 2 | ||
| " ankle-joints | 17 | 23 | ||
| " knee-joints | 5 | 6 | ||
| Both knees turned in | 15 | 2 | ||
| Right knee turned in | 13 | 15 | ||
| """out | 1 | — | ||
| Left knee turned in | 1 | 2 | ||
| """out | 1 | — | ||
| Lame of both legs | — | 1 | ||
| Stunted in growth | 39 | 21 | ||
| Bad eyes | 3 | 1 | ||
| Swelled neck glands | — | 4 | ||
| Lost one arm by machinery | 1 | 1 | ||
| " a thumb by do | 1 | — | ||
| Lame arm by do | 1 | — | ||
| " hand by do | 1 | — | ||
| " hip by do | 1 | — | ||
| " leg by do | — | 1 | ||
| Crooked thigh | 1 | — | ||
| Curved legs | 1 | — | ||
