Reports of special assistant poor law commissioners on the employment of women and children in agriculture.

  • Board of guardians
Date:
1843
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Credit: Reports of special assistant poor law commissioners on the employment of women and children in agriculture. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Can you tell the proportion of females employed in out-door work com- pared to tota number in the parish ?-In winter* as 50 to 12 employed ?n summer nearly the whole. * 3 ' No1 diffeJenc7differenCe °f Wag6S t0 married and WteaMStefl ?- v\SZU?nT7 CliS1e?eS P''evalent; |f so>are they attributable to the em- & i »7 f6 labourers who work with the chisel in the quarries on Gatherby Moor die generally in the meridian of life; it is supposed lom the collection of grit on the lungs. wpposea irpm mat is the usual rent of a cottage ?—About 3/. per annum, of a toki-Lle^e 'e°f C0,taSe accommodation ?-In general three rooms nCtHiarl}!fu any.clothing or benefit clubs ?—A clothing club has been fo mif eAhef-; U is °f,S0 reCent a C,ate that a «°rrect opin on canno be tl^SSEffSSS^a11 the poor femiL>and—S Children. ortftS^S d° Children g° °Ut t0 WOTk?-Boy» a* the age of f0UI,een d° th6y learn before S°inS out to work ?-Mostlv kent at school till fit for service in some family, or for out-door ^i i , , informed afterwards when prepare' for conSmaSn ' WeH W nat sort of work are they generally emDloved nn ? tu u jft** .heefcts or such ss^sas&rsa f„r What waees do they earn ?—-From Art «^ ™„ i •AXWE ShSSf or kept there ^g^tthem^TA^^J--^ S°°n ES <heyCan Carn Is there any domestic employment ?-None Gene^allVtme^ti^ !Ch°o1 * e™J%ed out of doors ± What preymmn!s are ^^l^Zu'to rf °rs' wrigh,s'&c '^f^ few or any an endowed parochial school, SKfarolrf^25i!M dame Schools. church Sunday school. In most o? hee ihe*fiS£?2F* GX,ent' and a Choreh catechism, and the Sunday school Shn1 a? ,ins,riIctefl ™ the church. Udy scnoo] scholars are taken regularly to Evidence of Mr. Maske, Marrick. ,,,, , Women. ^ »!0rts ror w„™, I, .el, „,„„„,, „, ,0llr