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In Great Britain the hours Of labor per week limit
cd BY act Of Parliament to 49, or ia hours per day. eu.
Saturday and IL hours each OF the other Ave working
days 1t also enacted that there shall he six holidays


is hardly possible to draw a comparison between the
operatives in Great Britain and those in Lowell The
the word the other not. There the whole family go
into the mills as soon as they have sufficient bodily
strength to earn penny They never come out until
they die Very little attention paid to their moral or
physical culture and has been proved by facts
tanned by commissioners appointed by Parliament few
read write and unless they have attended Sabbath
schools few obtain any knowledge Of the Bible or OF the
Christian religiRn


In Lowell, but very few lin some mills at ally
enter into the factories under the age Of fifteen None
under that age can be admitted, unless they bring
certificate from the school teacher that he she has
cednE twelve; Nine tsnths Of the factory ropuiaon in
Lowell come from the country. They are farmers
daughters Many Of them come over hundred miles 10
enter the mills Their education has been attended to in
the district SCHOOL, which dotted like diamonds over
every square mile of New England. Their moral and
he
and their constitutions made strong by the pure air,
wholesome food, and youthful exercise.


hundred dollars they depart for their homes get married.
settle down in life and become the heads OF families
Such we believe in truth to be correct statement of
the Lowell operatives, and ofthc hours of labor.


GENERAL HEALTH OF THE OPERATIvEs.


In reaard to the health of the operatives employed in
the mills your Committee believe it to be good Thetes-
timony Of the female petitioners does not cOntrover this
position, in general though does in particular iastan
The population Of the city Of Lowell is rising
10000 Of which number about 600 females employ.
ed in the mills II is the opinion of DR. Kmball emf
nent of Lowell with whom the Committee had
interview that there is less sickness among the per-
sons at work in the mills than there is among those who
do not work in the Mills and that there ia less sickness
now than there was several when the number
was much less than at present. This understood to
be also tho opinion Of the city hysican, Dr. Wells from
whose published report for the present year. learn
that the whole number OF deaths in Lowell during the
year ls44, was 3s Of which number 200 children
under ten years of age.


The following table shows tho comparative mortality
in Lowell during the past five years, enumerating some
of the nrincnal diaanaes