The effects of the principal arts, trades, and professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health and longevity : with a particular reference to the trades and manufacturers of Leeds, and suggestions for the removal of many of the agents which produce diseases and shorten the duration of life / by C. Turner Thackrah.
- Charles Thackrah
- Date:
- 1831
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Credit: The effects of the principal arts, trades, and professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health and longevity : with a particular reference to the trades and manufacturers of Leeds, and suggestions for the removal of many of the agents which produce diseases and shorten the duration of life / by C. Turner Thackrah. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![this department die young. Very few can bear it for 30 years, and not one instance could we find of any individual who had been 40 years either in this or any of the dusty rooms. We find, indeed, comparatively few old persons in any of the departments of the flax-mills. On inquiry at one of the largest establishments in this neighbour- hood we found that of 1079 persons employed, there are only 9 who have attained the age of 50; and be- sides these only 22 who have reached even 40. Formerly heckling was effected by hand. Now it is performed chiefly by machinery; and fewer men and more children are employed. The substitution of children for adults produces less apparent and immediate evil. Young persons are ob- served to bear the occupation much better than those of full age. They do not manifest serious disease in the luDgs. They are, indeed, very sickly in appear- ance, and their digestive organs become impaired; but great swelling at the pit of the stomach. Chest sounds well on percussion. Puerile respiration is heard over the major part ; and on the right anterior base, a subcrepitating rale. On the left lateral part, mucous, sonorous, and, occa- sionally, sibilant rale. She exhales 4} pints. The coughs of the persons waiting to be examined, were so troublesome as continually to interrupt and confuse the exploration by the Btethoscop It will be remembered that the individuals here examined were persona at their work, not patients applying for relief. The] were selected only as examples of those who had been long at the employ. The length of time during Which most of these individuals had been in the' mills, is extraordinary.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21158526_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
