The Girl in Industry

TABLE II

Proportion per 1000 Girls engaged in Occupations in certain Districts, England and Wales, 1911[15]

	Ages.
	14 Years.	15 Years.	16 Years.	17 Years.	18 Years.
England and Wales	387	576	668	719	743

Lancashire	651	751	801	826	837

Blackburn	841	905	925	931	934
Burnley	872	899	932	940	938
Oldham	843	890	910	926	923
Preston	784	887	906	930	916
Rochdale	853	904	910	932	932

London	365	625	737	795	820

Birmingham	643	812	867	890	894
Bradford	790	858	881	895	896
Leeds	673	768	815	831	835
Sheffield	435	595	660	699	714

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[1] Adolescence, vol. i. 167.

[2] Report on Physical Deterioration, 1904, p. 123.

[3] Health and Physique of School Children, by Arthur Greenwood. P. S. King, London, 1913, 1s. net.

[4] Labour Gazette, November 1917.

[5] See The Present Position of the Juvenile Labour Problem, by Frederic Keeling, 1914, 2d.; compare the same author's Child Labour in the United Kingdom, P. S. King, 1914.

[6] Starr, The Adolescent Period, p. 15.

[7] Tarbell, New Ideals in Business, p. 211.

[8] Starr, The Adolescent Period.

[9] Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration, Report, 1904.

[10] A lap is a thick layer of cotton fibre wound on a roller in early stage of preparation.

[11] See below, p. 33.

[12] Cf. the evidence of the British Mission on the output of munitions in France in December 1915, who note the advantage to health accruing from the long dinner hour, generally one and a half hours, and often two hours. (Cd. 8187 of 1916, p. 7.)

[13] "Lancashire Women as Cotton-Piecers," Englishwoman, June 1914.

[14] Keeling, op. cit. p. 7.

[15] Census, Summary Tables, p. 242.

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