Domestic Subjects, 17.
Demand for instruction in, 17.
Lack of common standard, 18.
Opening for women, 18.
Compared with University training, 19.
Dressmakers’, Milliners’, and Mantle-makers’ Union, 73.
Dust, defined, 120.
in shoddy mills, 130.
in potteries, 131.
in white lead, 132.
Respirators against, 139.
E
Elementary Schools, 14.
Salaries of Certificated Mistresses in, 14.
Other salaries, 15.
Salaries under the London School Board, 16.
Elementary _versus_ Secondary Schools, 16.
Training Colleges for, 17.
Employment of women, Blue Book on, 65, 85 _et passim_.
Experts required in factory inspection, 156.
F
Factory Acts, 150.
Insufficiency of, 152.
Reforms needed in, 157.
Extension of, desirable, 166.
Factory Department, 167.
Farr, Dr., tables of Infant Mortality, 146.
Fiction, 3.
Its remuneration, 4.
Fines, 85.
in shops, 51.
in textile trades, 100.
in the linen trade, 109.
Foreign competition, 88.
G
Gassing in silk manufacture, 130.
Governesses’ salaries, 8.
compared with High Schools, 10.
Greenhow’s, Dr., report on potteries, 132.
H
Half-timers, 165.
Handicrafts, Position of women in, 35.
Health, Economic importance of, 119.
Causes of ill-health, 120.
In various trades, 119 _et seq._
High Schools, 9.
Homework in, 10.
Salaries, 9.
Report on salaries, 11.
Agreements, 12.
Church Schools, 12.
Fees, 13.
Home-work, 87.
after factory hours, 163.
Regulation of, 164.
Hosiery trade, 107.
Union, Amalgamated, 80.
Hospital for Women, New, 24.
I
India, Medical women in, 25.
Native students, 25.
Infant mortality, 140 _et seq._
in Preston, Leicester, and Blackburn, 141.
Causes of, 144.
Dr. Tatham’s evidence, 145.
Dr. Farr’s tables, 146.
Recent statistics, 147.
Employment of mothers, 160.
J
Jex-Blake, Dr., _Medical Women_, 23.
Opinion on medicine as a career for women, 24.
Journalism, 6.
Income attainable, 7.
L
Lace trade, 107.
Lancashire and Yorkshire contrasted, 97.
_Lancet, The_, on seats for shop assistants, 56.
Laundries, Extension of Factory Acts to, 166.
Law, 21.
Miss Orme’s summary, 21.
Conveyancing, 22.
Openings in India, 22.
Lead, White, viii., 133 _et seq._
in other manufactures, 137.
Linen trade, 108.
Dr. Purdon’s report on, 124.
Deaths in, 127.
Combination attempted, 82, 109.
Dr. Whitaker’s report, 129.
Literature, 3.
Liverpool Tailoresses’ Union, 75, 87.
London School Board, 16.
Lucifer match trade, 137.
M
Machinery, and women’s labour, 110, 113.
Dangerous, 103.
in laundries, 166.
Married women’s labour, 103.
Relation to infant mortality, 145.
Regulation of, 160.
Martineau, Harriet, 3.
Match girls’ strike, 77.
Medicine, 23.
Appointments available, 24.
in India, 25.
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