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Women operatives

Women inspectors

Number of women to one inspector

New York. Massachusetts Pennsylvania Ohio

137,190 98,019 76,860 31,932

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19,598.5 49,009.5 15,372

New Jersev Illinois

28,914 28.000

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Connecticut

26,899

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For purposes of clearness it was thought best to restate in tabulated form the foregoing discussion of the laws of the various states, and the following explanation of these four tables to come seems necessary.

TABLE I :

The twelve states here given are those having regular and well-defined factory laws providing inspection. Other states, as uill be noted later, have made provision in a more or less careless way for some kind of oversight of factories, but they have no regular staff of inspectors. It was thought well to give prom- inence to the number of women inspectors as they are acknowl- edged by all to be a necessity where those of their own sex are employed.

TABLE II :

Those states which have no factory laws, but in some way regulate the hours of women's labor, are here included.

TABLE III :

This table aims to show those states which make any provision at all for the health and well being of the women operatives, hence the formula of tabulation adopted. In this, as in Table II, the states enumerated have not been confined to those having recog- nized factory laws. In some of the far western and southern states the number of women workers is so small that legal enact- ments are scarcely necessary.

TABLE IV: This is simply a summary of the preceding ones.