864 REPORT— 1903. 



the excess or defect of infant mortality, but that the connection is not 

 very close and that the evidence is not sufficient to measure it exactly.^ 



[Note. — Reference may be given on this subject to the Reports of the 

 Medical Officer of the Privy Council between 1859 and 1872, especially 

 the Appendix to the fourth report ; to ' Papers relating to the Sanitary 

 tState of the People of England, 1858 ; ' and to the evidence given before 

 the Factory and Workshops Acts Commission of 1875 by Mr. Foulkes 

 and Mr. Baker.j 



APPENDIX IV. ■ • 



Meoent Legislation Abroad relating to Women^s Labour. 

 By E. W. Brabrook. 



Since the Report of the Committee on Women's Labour was agreed 

 to, I have been favoured by the Office du Travail of Belgium with a copy 

 of their ' Annuaire de la Legislation du Travail ' for 1902, which contains 

 the text of all the laws relating to labour passed in that year in 

 various countries. It may be worth while to supplement the particulars 

 relating to foreign legislation given in the second report of that Committee 

 by noting those which relate to women's labour. 



In Germany many ordinances of the Federal Council have been made 

 forbidding the employment of women in industries where great heat or 

 motor power is used or the work is very exhausting, viz., January 31, 1902, 

 in chicory manufacture ; March 5, in glass works and in the blowing of 

 glass ; March 5, in sugar works, sugar refineries, and works for extracting 

 sugar from molasses ; March 20, in the extraction of stone from quarries ; 

 coal mines and mines of zinc and lead in the regency of Oppeln ; 

 May 27, in roiling mills and forges. 



In Austria a law was enacted on July 28 for the regulation of railways, 

 which, among other things, forbade the employment of women on night 

 work or during the four weeks after child-birth. 



In Spain a law was enacted on June 2G limiting women's work to 

 1 1 hours a day, or 66 hours a week. 



In France, by a law of March 21, women are not to bo employed in 

 cleaning, inspecting, or repairing machinery in action. 



In Italy, by a law of June 19, night work is prohibited for women. 



In several of the States of the American Union laws have been made 

 regulating the labour of women. In Louisiana, July 24, women are not 

 to be employed more than 10 hours a day, or 60 hours a week, and to 

 have an hour allowed each day for dinner. In Massachusetts, June .S, 

 the limits were fixed at 10 hours a day and 58 a week. In 

 Rhode Island, April 4, the same limits were enacted. In the State of 

 Washington (not D.C), on March 11, 1901, work was limited to 10 

 hours a day, and seats were ordered to be provided. The same provision 

 as to seats was made in Wyoming on February 13, 1901. Finally, on 

 April 2, 1902, the State of New York enacted that the earnings of mari-ied 

 women should be their own. It seems wonderful that such an enactment 

 should be necessary. 



' In words, a deviation from the average of 2 5 in column d may be expected 

 ■jyjth Sf cJevjatioR in the same sense of X |n the n}:)mbers in column w;, 



