Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops for the Year 1898, Part II: Reports (1899)

Excerpt from the British Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops' annual report for 1898: the title page of Part II and pp. 171-172 from the report of the Lady Inspectors. Among the dusty occupations given special attention in 1898, it singles out asbestos sifting and carding, and records Lucy Deane's finding that the work was injurious to health, with sharp, glass-like, jagged particles seen under the microscope and one works where the dusty process was carried on in a cellar without ventilation. The pages also deal with meals in workrooms and accidents.