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The glove manufactory alone employs several 
thousand individuals, principally females, who are 
enabled to earn sufficient to maintain themselves 
with comfort. But the employment of sewing the 
gloves being sedentary, the usual result of such an 
inactive state of the body is apparent in the varied 
and troublesome complaints of the digestive organs, 
which form a large proportion of the cases presenting 
themselves from this class of persons for medical 
relief. Part of the process, too, by which the leather 
is prepared, proves very inimical to health. Those 
who work at grounding and paring the leather, are 
exposed constantly to an atmosphere loaded with 
dust, part of which consists of insoluble pumice 
stone ; as a consequence, they frequently fall victims 
to bronchitis and consumption. 
The china manufactories also employ a large 
number of people, who generally earn great wages, 
but part of this occupation proves very detrimental 
to their health, and it often happens that consumption 
is thereby produced. 
To the trades just mentioned, we must add the 
iron foundries, lace manufactories, and distilleries, 
which, though not extensive, are yet of considerable 
importance, both in a political and medical point 
of view ; and, I believe, we have then stated the 
chief employments by which the industrious poor of 
this city support themselves. That they are enabled 
to do so in a much more satisfactory manner than 
those in most of the manufacturing towns of this 
kingdom, may be concluded from the fact, that since 
