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326 The Century of the Child
out of existence. Industrial work at home is
done by children four to five years old, while
the age limit for child labour in factories, both
in Germany and in Switzeriand, is fourteen
years. The government of Denmark has pro-
posed the same limit of age. In Italy most of
the crippled young children were brought up
in the sulphur districts of Sicily, crowded to-
gether in low galleries, burdened with heavy
sacks at an age at which their tender hmbs un-
der such conditions must inevitably and in-
curably be contorted. As early as twelve and
thirteen years old many of them are incapable
of work. In the magnesium mines of Spain,
quantities of children six to eight years old
are kept at work ; through the poisonous odours
they fall victims to severe diseases. Other
children carrying heavy pitchers on their
head are employed to water dry places. The
child is a cheaper means of transportation than
the ass.
Despite protective legislation the average
of height and weight in the Lancashire children
is and continues to be lower than anywhere
else. Of the two thousand children investi-
gated in this district only one hundred and
fifty-one were really sound and strong; one
hundred and ninety-eight were seriously crip-
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