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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
 

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Side 7 - directed to investigate and report on the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical condition of woman and child workers in the United States wherever employed, with special reference to their age, hours of labor, term of employment, health, illiteracy, sanitary and other conditions surrounding their occupation, and the means employed for the protection of their health,
Side 2 - by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor in response to the act approved January twentyninth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to report upon the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical condition of woman and child workers in the United States,” be printed as a public document.
Side 110 - 4 days ... 4 days and under 1 week ... 1 week and under 2 weeks ... 2 weeks and under 3 weeks.... 3 weeks and under 1 month... 1 month and under 2 months.. 2 months and under 3 months. 3 months and under 4 months. 4 months and under 6 months. 5 months and under 6 months.
Side 20 - The relative importance of manufacturing, agricultural, and other employments in the various States may be seen from the following table. The table presents for each of the New England States the per cent of the total population 10 years of age and over employed in gainful occupations who were in each main occupation group at each
Side 14 - Figures for 1909 from Seventysecond Annual Report of the RegistrarGeneral of Births, Deaths, and Marriages In England and Wales,
Side 119 - excluded, however, the mothers at work show a slightly higher percentage of children not well and strong at birth. It would appear then that the conditions which were found existing do not indicate that the work of the mother in the cotton mill before childbirth was producing results noticeably different from the work of mothers at
Side 7 - in the United States, which relates to the employment of mothers and infant mortality. This is the thirteenth section of the report of the general investigation into the condition of woman and child workers in the United States, carried on in compliance with the act of Congress approved January 29, 1907.
Side 166 - going to work. The causes of the excessive infant mortality in Fall River may be summed up in a sentence as the mother's ignorance of proper feeding, of proper care, and of the simplest requirements of hygiene. To this all the other causes must be regarded as secondary.
Side 109 - at work, but in the fact that for the mothers at home the percentage is practically as high, plainly indicating that if there is an injurious effect of millwork, there must also be in many of these cases an effect almost in the same degree injurious resulting from the work at home. In making this state-
Side 53 - “Large families evidently do not necessarily imply a tendency to high infant mortality. The connection often observed between a high birth rate and a high rate of infant mortality probably is due in great part to the fact that large families are common among the poorest classes, and these classes are specially exposed to the degrading influences producing excessive infant

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