ABSTRACT
It is very difficult for the manufacturer, who wishes well to his work-people, to judge how to act for the best in such cases. He very well knows, if he is a thinking man, that young women who have been brought up in the factories, very rarely get em ployed as domestic servants, or in any other capacity than as factory labourers. He also is well aware, that if he turns them out of employment, the result will be, in nine cases out of ten, that the unhappy girls will be driven for slielter to a workhouse; or, what is more probable (as Union-workhouses are now conducted) to a worse fate; that of prostitution, in order to obtain a living. I have noticed that, gene rally speaking, where the manufacturers are inclined to look over this fault (as in the case before us), and permit the girls to return to their work, the streets are kept comparatively free from prostitutes.
