The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-02-13

persons, which gives each fraction under
300 cubic feet Of air space. Wsngler a
Hahn's factory at 80 and 292 Bowefy,
measures 65x36-12 feet, gives ia feet for
each person. These are fair samples u
the size Of the average tobacco workrooIns,
and the number Of occupants.
I In the tenements, the number of per-
esons Engaged in cigar making in each room
are few. One inspector visited % families,
taken at random, and the other 14S the
| group of G6 families consisted of 3l9 per
sons, including children, giving an average
| of about 81 persons to room, or suite OF
rooms. The workrsom. which 10 generally
the sitting room, kitchen and dining room
( Of the family, measures, usually, l0xl6-S
! feet, giving an air space OF 90 cnbic feet
for each person, an average Of ~ per cent.
more than the largest factory room. The
group of l4S families included ST. per
sons, an average Of $50 persons to room.
The dimensions Of these workroons were
about lGxl4-SA feet, giving 469 cubic feet
Of air space to each person, IN average Of
81 per cent. more than that Of the most
spacious factory room. These figures do
not represent the full advantages a. re-
CARDS aiEspace VI the tenements over the
fse*sffess f0Fs - 1gs-,sssiusatss mot anly-
workers have been included in the tene-
ments, but also the children making up
the family.
In regard to light, both the workers in
tenements and factories have an abund-
ance.
Ventilation can be secured in both
classes Of shops by open doors and win
dUws When these are closed in cold
weather the air becomes more rapidly With
ated in The factories than in the tene-
ments The tenement workers have some
advantage in regard to food, especially in
their facilities for preparing the midday
meal. In cleanliness, the tenements were
far H. advance of the factories. There is
less odor, less litter upon the floor, and
lar greater evidence Of care and pride in
the conditions Of the apartments in the
tenements. Thus, in these cardinal points
nothing can be urged against the MANN
facture of tobacco i'll tenements.
The shop workers labor from a. m. un-
til p. m, with short recess for meals,
but in the tenements, being at home, the
inmates can work as early or as late as
they choose. The compensation Of the
factory worker is generally greater per
capita than In the tenements, but, by EN-
ploying every member Of the family old
enough to work, many earn money who
would otherwise be idle, and the aggregate
income is greatly increased, enabling the
purchase Of many comforts not within
reach Of the factory worker. Children
too young to be trusted from home, and
the disabled, rheumatic old people, instead
Of depicting, add to the family income,
the inspectors state positively that, III
their opinion, the home workers labor un-
der quite as good sanitary coDditions as
the factory workers.
The question is asked what are the ef-
fects on the nOn-W orkers, the children and
infants, Of exposure 10 the emanations Of
tobacco In answer to this. the inspect
ors say that their inquiries have shown
that the children and infants reared in
tenements where tobacco is being manu-
factured are quite as healthy and as little
prone 10 disease sks the children reared IN
other tenements where tobacco is not man
factured. The odor Of tobacco was much
less pungent in the teuements than in the
factories.
NATHANIEL Is. EMERSON, NJ ID.
ROGER A. FRAcy. m. ID.
Sanitary InsP Pectors
DIR. WADE +. DAY,
Sanitary Superintendent.