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

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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CONTENTS PAGE. Introductory remarks, 5 Comparative mortality of the West-Riding of Yorkshire, and of Leeds, ... 9 CLASSES OF PERSONS, - 15 I. Operatives. 1. Men of active habits, whose employments are chiefly in the open air, - - - 15 2. Operatives, 'whose employments are carried on in an atmosphere confined and impure, 23 3. Operatives subjected to dust, odour, or gas- eous exhalations, 45 (1.) To dust, odour, or exhalations, not decidedly hurtful, - - - - 45 (2.) To substances or odours apparently beneficial, ------ 50 (3.) To dust or vapour decidedly inj urious, 54 4. Operatives, whose skin is exposed to inju- rious agents, 84 5. Operatives, who are exposed to wet and vapour, 91 6. Operatives exposed to high temperature, or to changes of temperature, ... 100

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