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STATISTICS. 



[Sect. XV . 



Al«o, whether any and what restrictions are placed by 



law 



or custom aga-nst the employment of women or 

 children in any branch of trade or manufacture. Na- 



turally connected with these inquiries is the share which 

 the workpeople obtain of the value of the objects upon 

 which their industry is employed. To ascertain this it is 

 not only necessary to learn the usual rates of daily, or 

 weekly, or yearly wages paid, but also the amount which 



a family of average industry, consisting of a man, his 

 wife, and say four children, are ordinarily able to earn 

 in the course of the year, including such perquisites as 

 custom pro^ddes in aid of the ordinary wages, the nature 

 as well as the value of which it must ^^^ interesting to 

 know. It hardly needs to be said that a distinction must 



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be draa^n between the e^mino-.^ nf tliA Qinio^i ot..i a....~.^ 



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who are unskilled, those whose qualifications are the re- 



sult of a previous expenditure of time and money, that 



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and those who bring little more than 



their bodily strength to the performance of their task. 



does it need to be pointed out, that however 

 numerically important are the classes usually understood 

 by the term workmen, their condition does not comprise 

 the whole of what it is desirable to know in forming an 

 estimate of a community ; the circumstances of the better 

 educated portion of the peoplr., including those who by 



tiieir studies and acquired skill influence so greatly the 

 general ndl-being, and upon whom mainly depend the 

 progress of civilizatioia, are to the full as necessary to be 

 known. It will probably not be difficult to learn^ as re- 

 spects these, the fees paid to professional men, such as 

 physicians and advocates, the salaries of schoolmasters 



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