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Thus, however severe the weather, these ill-fated girls never 
have the opportunity of warming themselves until between 
eight and nine in the evening. That in some of these esta- 
blishments the food is 'of doubtful quality, ill-cooked, and 
little qualified to stimulate an appetite not kept in tone by 
out-door exercise, is another count in the indictment. 
lhese anti-hygienic features are not to be met with to an 
equal extent in all the sale-shops and warehouses where 
large numbers of hands live and sleep “ in.” But our in- 
formation is mainly derived from establishments which rank 
among the best-conducted of their class. 
Another point, which perhaps scarcely comes under the 
head of Hygiene, is that the hands have rarely an oppor- 
tunity of taking air and exercise until about nine in the 
evening. How ill-adapted the streets of London are for 
this purpose, in the case of young women, does not need to 
be demonstrated. It will thus be seen that we have here 
powerful, efficient causes of physical degeneracy and of 
positive disease affecting a very considerable proportion of 
the population. Mr. Cantlie’s proposal leaves this source 
of evil absolutely untouched. 
It may be forgotten that in the rise of the factory-system 
the scheme of “ living in,” in so-called “ bothies,” was 
tried. Their necessary suppression gives a precedent for 
similar measures elsewhere. 
Further information concerning the hygienic shortcomings 
of shops and warehouses, as well as of failures in health 
consequent upon “ preparing ” for examinations, is earnestly 
solicited, under the strictest confidence. 
VI. THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. 
By Robert Galloway, M.R.I.A. 
HEN I wrote the article on the extraction of sugar 
from the juice of the cane and the juice of the beet- 
root which appeared in the September number of 
the “Journal of Science,” I had no personal knowledge of 
the condition of the sugar manufacture in the Island of 
