Note 54 — Chapter XIX · LEAD AND ITS COMPOUNDS
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Number of Persons, male and female, employed in white lead manufacture in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne district during two years previous to the abolition of female labour, 1898, and two years since. Supplied by Mr H. J. Wilson, H.M. Inspector of Factories.
1896. 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900.
Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females. Males. Females.
328 565 329 571 648 350 741 227 769 231
893 900 998 968 1000
Instead, therefore, of the number of hands employed in the white lead industry in this district having diminished since the abolition of female labour in the dangerous processes, the total number employed is greater now than five years ago.