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MARRlED JfrO.ffEaV I:lJ FACTORJES. 79
round many a Christ,mas tsble troops of happy, ohabby
children would replace the “wizened little monkeys ’’ a€ &la,
and the cr Iittlo old men” boys, who nom form the miserable
remnants of families.
Kol~.”Daring the last fen weeks of his life my husband waa mnah
occupied with the question of infant morblity, as Lo had undertaken to
prcprc a paper on that subjcct fur tho nlceting of the Socid Scienco
Assucintion, hcld nt Sottiughm last September. That paper \PILE
never to be written, and the resultR of his many hours of labour were
therefore lost. I can only say here that he had most carefully examined
iuto the statistics of infant mortality in every town of cvery county
throughout England and Wales, and that he told mo that 210 thought
from this exllnontivo inquiry he should be able to giro most convincing
proof of the iuflueucc which the nbscnec of tho mother at work has upon
the death-rate of the children, nnd of the urgent need which eriete for
legisfation upou the subject.
rl. A. J.