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    356 OPEN COUNCITi.

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    To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...

    the ture exception — matter with tiie , great practicall art deference of composing y , and to who those will have require ladies no who to doub be are t taug full engage ht y considered to offer all d in comers few carry , remarks in _^ ing I all ven out its

    based details , the on information subject with I which have recentl they have y obtained to deal with — , to respect to a printers and , printing up offices , which formed part of a paper I read lately before in this _the country

    Institute of Actuaries , on the question of the inordinate mortality , in as The evidenced the princi parish pal b of y the printing St . annual Clements offices reports in in the London of the Strand Reg , which istrar are are generall -General most y of . close them and situated dark ,

    is and indispensable a great quan for tity printing of gas i operations s , necessari , ly particularl consumed , y in in the them composing , as a good rooms light . These for the most t smalllowand ill-ventilated : the

    conrooms are par , , tremel sequence sensitive of this is to that draug the hts men of suffer airand very the much result from is that colds , they and are become exy

    of among phthisical the whole compositors ; and population it has two been in die seven of shown this fall b ccmrp victim y , Dr laint . s Gay to , this or that of malad while other y . one cog With n in considerable ate five di the s or eases view six ,

    to test the facts quoted by Dr . Gray , I myself , not long ago , took into pains the to collect inform seemed ation to show on this that subject in proportion , and the result as the of old my low inquirie dark s

    rebuilt and badl and y question -ventilated arrangements j _> rinting made offices for remed should ying come the , in undoubted course of , evil time s , , which to _be ,

    now exist , so would the fearful mortality of printers be diminished . see class I to enclose of wh operatives at , particul a copy of ar may the causes be paper attributed the to great which . mortality I have referred from p , hthisis by which , among you will this

    has "With been the made view I to , would prevent beg to some to point extent out the —1 fatal st , The results necessity to which of allusion proper ventilation ing oict in of the , the composing the products rooms , and of of the due combustion means bein of g the provided gaswhich for

    during it tating carry will a probabl the good winter lig y be ht months . found rooms , necessary the minuteness to burn of for some the of greater the type par used t substituted of necessi the , day - I would suggest that if chimneys of neutral tinted lass were

    to combustion yellow for the the color li ordinary ght of of of the the white sunlig in gas the would g ht lass day . - chimneys The be tim neutralised e unnatural has , been it would , and hel yellow d made be to found be li g g to ht the approximate that produced cause the of peculiar serious by more the

    be mischief 2 handled nd , The to when the importance gas eyes in . a heated of instituting state , the a strict noxious rule - , fumes that the from type the should lead and not ;

    they antimony hot of which having the been types shown are to composed be the cause , and of which paral are ysis emitte of the d hands when

    and 3 rd arms are , The . I hi , beg gh importance to refer to my oi' arrang paper on ing thi seats s _j ) oint for . the young women

    engaged Contrivances in composing have . been invented by which the long continued standing posture , in which compositors usually work , becomes unnecessary havbeen . enabled These

    to are ascertain not , however for this , much reason used onl in y the :. that trade the , and men as , from far as habit I , e have acquired but a sort this of is circular , habit motion produced round onl the b case bad , teaching during the There process is of 110 composition reason why ,

    a , y y . of the a hocl person y of p a lay person ing the composing piano-forte should , thoug not h be the as h _xDerfectl ands aiid y quiescent arms are in a , s con that

    to stant _CTlie introduce motion working , classes inventions cling for very th much eir advantage to old habits , so much , and do it is they most seenijx difficult _) be any

    prejudiced against anything new . Nothing , however , will be easier in the

    356 Open Counciti.

    356 OPEN _COUNCITi .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/68/