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Excerpt from Bulletin of the Department of Labor, Vol. 44: January, 1903 Every epidemic, be it typhoid, smallpox, scarlet fever, dysentery, cholera, etc., draws its greatest army of victims from this class. For every death that occurs among the richer and higher classes there are many in the working class. It is the workmen engaged in unhealthy factories first of all who fill the hospitals and their death chambers. Again it is more Often the workingwoman who suffers from female troubles, and even cancer. The reasons for the high mortality and shortness of life among the working class can easily be perceived from the foregoing facts. These two evils are always proportionate to the danger and the insanitary conditions existing in the industry. Loss of health and the shortening of life are looked upon as the severest evils that can be inflicted upon the individual. The working classes themselves often call their condition white slavery, and their factories and workshops slaughterhouses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.