2. Age and sex of the employed. 

3. Number of the employed. 

4. Salaries and wages: (a) apprentices; (b) wages by the day or 
piece work; scale paid by middlemen. Weekly, yearly average. 

5. (a) Hours of work in factories. (b) The hours of work with 


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small employers and in home work, if the business be carried on in 
those different modes. (c) Nightwork and daywork. 

6. Meal times and treatment. 

7. Sort of workshop and work: overcrowding, defective ventila- 
tion, want of sunlight, use of gaslight. Cleanliness, etc. 

8. Nature of occupation. 

9. Effect of employment upon the physical condition. 

10. Moral condition. Education. 

11. State of trade: whether season trade, or more or less 
uniformly distributed over year, whether greatly fluctuating, 
whether exposed to foreign competition, whether destined princi- 
pally for home or foreign competition,* etc.