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DEATH FEOM BE ING OVERWORKED. *’!The death of a young female. Mary j1( Ann Walk ley, in the service of a fash- w ionable West End milliner, Madame Elise, a Frenchwoman, fromexbaus- re tion caused by overwork, and the ec breathing of impure air, has caused a ^sfcsensation in London. The facts attending the extinction of this young ^ creature, as they were developed at inquiry before the Coroner, reveal a ' state of things about which the fine j ladies who employ these Court milliners can know nothing. Dr. Lan- , kester has made a report on the sub- j jS ject. “1 found sixty ladies/7 he says, s t* “working in two rooms, which contained 3,630 cubic feet of air, and this gives frut little more than sixt}r feet of air to each individual.77 It has been remarked that, in' a sanitary poiut of view, these rooms have even less air than the Black Hole of Calcutta, into which though doublethe number of people were tfrFust^ yet many of them died a horrible death in the course of a single night.lafilehi\\s a w tt B hlt;
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Waynesburg Messenger
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Aug 19, 1863
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