Factory life during the Industrial Revolution was unhealthy and an utterly disgusting environment unsuitable for children, not only for the dangerous equipment, but also for the insufficient ability to tend to and take care of the children, even forcing and expecting them to lie in some circumstances. For example, one interview stated, ¨When I was a surgeon in the infirmary, accidents were very often admitted to the infirmary, through the children's hands and arms having being caught in the machinery; In instances the muscles, and the skin is stripped down to the bone, and in some instances a finger or two might be lost¨ (Ward, Michael, ¨Minutes of Evidence¨ (1819). However, not only was the production offspring and givings an issue, but the machinery and mechanics behind
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Ward uses the term “gasping for breath” when asked to describe his knowledge of the health stating that he had difficult time understanding how it was merely possible for the children to endure such heated temperature over a substantial amount of time. Work life was very hazardous as the children were exposed to the inhaling of toxins and chemicals that fumed the rooms excreted from machinery of the factories. Nurseries of decrease and vice he called it as children's fingers were chopped off in the equipment on multiple occasions. Serving as a witness as well as an educated superior understanding and exposing the problematic key elements of the Industrial Revolutions factory life, Dr. Ward reveals the true health conditions of workers in cotton factories. “To save my head I raised my arm, which he then hit with all his might… We were examined, we were washed and cleaned up and ordered to tell them we liked working at the Mill and were well treated”(Birley, John ¨The Ashton Chronicle¨ (19th May 1949)). John Birley was a witness who endured the hardships of the Industrial Revolution. A mere witness expressing his injuries introducing who he was with, who he worked under, and their family as
Ward uses the term “gasping for breath” when asked to describe his knowledge of the health stating that he had difficult time understanding how it was merely possible for the children to endure such heated temperature over a substantial amount of time. Work life was very hazardous as the children were exposed to the inhaling of toxins and chemicals that fumed the rooms excreted from machinery of the factories. Nurseries of decrease and vice he called it as children's fingers were chopped off in the equipment on multiple occasions. Serving as a witness as well as an educated superior understanding and exposing the problematic key elements of the Industrial Revolutions factory life, Dr. Ward reveals the true health conditions of workers in cotton factories. “To save my head I raised my arm, which he then hit with all his might… We were examined, we were washed and cleaned up and ordered to tell them we liked working at the Mill and were well treated”(Birley, John ¨The Ashton Chronicle¨ (19th May 1949)). John Birley was a witness who endured the hardships of the Industrial Revolution. A mere witness expressing his injuries introducing who he was with, who he worked under, and their family as