...to the middle of the present century. With the dawn of the nineteenth century came the first Factory Act, ' for the Preservation of the Health and Morals...Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Industries/ The necessity for this Act had deeply impressed Sir Robert Peel, himself a manufacturer,...

...the middle of the present century. "With the dawn of the nineteenth century came the first Factory Act, ' for the Preservation of the Health and Morals...Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Industries.' The necessity for this Act had deeply impressed Sir Robert Peel, himself a manufacturer,...

...to the middle of the present century. With the dawn of the nineteenth century came the first Factory Act,' for the Preservation of the Health and Morals...Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Industries.' The necessity for this Act had deeply impressed Sir Robert Peel, himself a manufacturer,...

...against the abuse of the apprenticeship system. This act, however, was of very limited scope, although entitled "An act for the preservation of the health...and others employed in cotton and other mills, and in cotton and other factories." Fourteen years later the first Parliamentary inquiry into the condition...

...after six years of desultory parliamentary discussion, Sir Robert Peel brought in and passed a Bill for the preservation of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other factories (1802). Indeed, some such measure was found to be necessary as a preventive of general disease....

...Factory legislation dates back as far as 1802, when the following was enacted by the British Parliament: "An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in the Cotton and other Factories." This act was the nucleus from which all factory and sanitary legislation...

...districts of Manchester, in 1802 introduced an act " for the preservation of the health and morals of the apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills, and cotton and other factories;" in 1819, an attempt was made to fix the age at which children should enter mills; in 1829, Sir John...

...England's factory inspection dates back to 1802, when a law entitled : "An act for the betier protection of the health and morals of apprentices and others employed in cotton and other factories" was enacted. Following closely upon this legislation came France and Germany, then followed...

...districts of Manchester, in 1802 introduced an act " for the preservation of the health and morals of the apprentices and others employed in cotton and other mills, and cotton and other factories ; " in 1819, an attempt was made to fix the age at which children should enter mills ; in 1829, Sir...

...the English legislature. In that year the first Factory Act (42 Geo. III., c. 73) was passed ; being entitled "An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices employed in Cotton and other Mills, and in Cotton and other Factories;" where the words mill and factory...