CHILDREN IN FACTORIES.
A Cause for Complaint. [Pkr Peess Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 13. At the ordinary meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to-night, Dr Lindsay wrote, drawing attention to the case of a lad of 13, who had been admitted to the hospital with his arm mangled, through its having been caught in a machine which he was working at the Fibre Company's mill. The lad was too young to be at work, and the doctor urged that some enquiry should be made into the question of the employment of such children in factories, and the danger incurred by themin workingthe machinery. Dr Lindßay said that the cartridge factory at Mount Eden furnished the hospital with j large numbers of patients, who were, with few exceptions, little girls, 12 or 13 years of age, their injuries being, as a rule, crushed fingers and thumbs, wounds sustained in working the machinery for the manufacture of cartridges, and amputation had, in some cases, to be resorted to. Tne Board decided to refer the matter to the Inspector of Police.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6161, 14 February 1888, Page 3
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