Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-02-03
THE MOST PeRllouS vocATloNs.
Trades That Are Exceedingly Dangerous
tn HeaIth-rhose Least Hurtful.

Trades That Are Exceedingly Dangerous
tn Hcalth-rhoss Least Hurtful.
Labor performed in factories where the
air is laden with irritating PARTICLES of
| dust, whether of vegetable or mineral
origin, or where poisonous matters, such
as arsenic, lead or mercury are used for
ooloring or other purposes. should be alb
tolutely forbidden for children, and en-
lloyers should he obliged to adopt every
know precaution to lessen the dangers for
alult workers therein.
The most perilous occupations, by tho
Inhalation Of irritating dust, are needle
makers, pin-pointers, cutters. grinders,
ctc.. since they inhale a mixture Of
metallic and mineral dust. The height is
reached in the grinding Of forks and
needles, which must be done on dry
rtones. Workmen that do the wet grind
ing. such as razors. scissors table-knives,
| otc.. have their risk also in their liability
10 rheumatism. pneumonia and bron-
chtis of an acute form. One authority
Gays the mortality among this class Of
toilers is so great that they die at or lie
Inv their 35th year.
Workers in lead suffer greatly, and,
like mercury, the poison affects women
more readily than men. Coppersmiths
are not subject to disease by virtue of
powder, which is the filings OF copper or
Grass, are greatly broken in health.
Shthisis and bronchial catarrh are COM
anon among them. The adoption of red
ahosphorous for the white in the making
of matches lessons the dangers, as this
form Of this substitute does not give olf
yapors and is not poisonous, even when
taken internally. Toy balloon makers
are poisoned by the vapor of carbon BIZ
culphide sometimes producing actual men,
ial disease. The hearing is impaired and
The sight affected.
Printers and pressmen usually work in
tadly ventilated rooms and take little ex-
ercise. Dyspepsia and diarrhea are COM
mon among compositions. Rheumatism
and sciatica is the lot of the cooper.
Carpenters frequently have hernia and
tabinetmakers are subject to varicocele.
tlilors and shnemakers work under tho
worst hygienic conditions, and consump-
tim claims over one-third Of them.
Cement-makers find ii impossible 10
work many consecutive days together.
They have persistent cough. Nine
years is the limit at the trade of n cutter
of millstoncs. 1t is said that almost all
the sandstone cutters near Edinburgh
Ill of .,.f. &.
one attain the age Of 50 years. The
makers Of pottery and porcelain sooner
or later become asthmatical The female
operatives are pallid and chlorotic and
their infants almost all scrofulons with
an enormous mortality. Bright's dis
case is common among glass-blowers.
Blacksniths become prematurely aged.
caused by the extreme exertion, the ex-
Posture to the heat of the forge. the pro-
fuse perspiration and sudden changes of
temperature. Phthisis is hardly known
among this class of toilers.
The dust of -four and meal to which
the miller is constantly exposed has no
tfect on the respiratory tract. The only
ailment is an irritation of the skin.
Brewers are sometimes dyspeptic and
troubled with congestion of the liver;
butchers have only rheumatism to fear,
and are usually florid and robust in APP
pearance. The sapping of the vital
and their power of resisting epidemic
disease almost nothing.
Feather ornament makers. who are
mostly women, suffer greatly. Three
years at the trade is the limit with great
impairment 10 health. The lungs and
eyes both suffer. Artificial hower-mak-
ors are in danger. through the poisons
necessary in obtaining the colors needed.
TO paralysis which last long after work is
abandoned. Beachers of colors inhale
chlorine gas, which is harmless, while
their other only danger is eruptions ON
The forearms caused by having to work
with hot water and strong I've, which
cracks and assures the skin.
Farming would seem to he the most
heai,hiul Of ali pursuits. The life IL free
| from anxiety, but the fact is painful
one that their lives are shortened AMI
made uncomfortable by the poorness of
food they consume. Salt pork is the
chief article of meat, and usually poorly
cooked.
\ class that are actually benefited in
health 10y their profession Is the tanners
and leather-dressers, fat-renderers, lard
rcfiners, bone-boilrrs, gluemakers. pork
packers, soap-makers, oil-pressers and
makers of cheese.
The manufacture of tobacco would
seem to have no dangers beyond that of
the absorption of nicotine by the system,
for workmen claim exemption from in
nammatory and epidemic diseases. But
ton-makers, and all workers in bone, are
healthy men. Another class of toilers
who enjoy good health and certain I'M
munity against epidemics are the work
ers in wool. The little dust caused by
the combing never troubles them.-New
York World.
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