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CHILDREN'S EMPLOYMENT COMMISSION.* *A bine book of 340 pages has just been issued, containing the first | reportof the Royal Commissioners appointed to enquire into the employment of children and young persons in trades and manufacturesnot already regulated by The book contains also reports and evidence from three assistant Commissioners, oh such subjects as the pottery manufacture, lucifei* match manufacture, percussion cap manufacture, paper-staining, “finishers,” fustian cutters, the lace and hosiery manufactures, climbing boys, c., together with various other documents haying a bearing on the subjects inquired into. The report of the commissioners themselves occupies; 94 pages. In the ■ ease of the p ottery manufacture tfee recommendation^ of the commissioner}? include improved ventilation and otliei sanitary arrangements ; the appointment for two years of a medical inspector, the. sanitary supervision of the potteries to be afterwards placed under the inspectors of factories; the discontinuance of overtime ; the gradual application of the half-time system, which the Commissioners'consider most important to the physical and moral condition of1 the children further security for education by requiring a certificate of a certain amount of it on a child’s attaining the age of 13, e. Inthe account of the inquiry as to the lucifeiymatch manufacture, a singular statement is made of the development of a peculiar disease called 51 the jaw disease,” since the beginning of this manufacture, the powers of the Public Health Act are not considered sufficient, and various practical recommendations are given by the commissioners as'
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Penny Newsman
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, Jul 12, 1863
Page 11
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