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How A Sedentary Life Affects Women

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Day
22
Month
November
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Popular Scletice Monthly ro'■ miirks that many of the ills and diseftses prevalent among woinen in our day me j no doubt traceable to the sedentary mode of life so common among them. The progresa of the industrial art lias donu away with much of the household dmdgery to which 'nomen wero formerly subjected, and tho result is in too many cases want of sufncient occupation for needed bodily exercise. It ' says : "The fniits of this state of things i are strikingly shown in certain ! tions made by the late Dr. Robertson, a Manchester surgeon, who, in his practice as a specialist for women's diseases, I found that in womeri who themselves perfonnod all their household work ! there was no trace of certain eomplaints, that these eomplaints begin to make ; their appearance in woinen with one servant, becomo moro pronounoed with women who havo two servante, or worse j still with those who have three servants, aud so on. He showed statistically that the deaths from childbirth were four times greater in the cases of women with four servants than those with none. ! On the other hand, we observed a state ment the other day that, since the sus pension of labor in the milis of New i Kngland, on account of the panic, many of the female operatives have eought employment as domesties, and, as a consequence, there is much more sickness among them than there was previously. This would seem to show that housework is not íis healthy as labor in cotton and woolen milis. - Troy Times.

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Michigan Argus