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Excerpt from Tranent and Its Surroundings: Historical, Ecclesiastical, and Traditional (Classic Reprint)Female Labour in Mines — Coal Winding — Construction of_ the First Tramway — Children in Mines — Lord Dundonald and Mr R. Bald of Edinburgh on Female Labour in Mines — Public Indignation aroused against the System — Government Inquiry Commission Evidence given by Women and Children — Tables showing the Number of Children in East Lothian Coalworks — Examination of Coalmasters: Sir G'. G. Suttie, Messrs H. F. Cadell, John Deans, John Grieve, and A. G. Cuthbertson — Examination of Coal Managers: Messrs T. H. Moore, W. Shearer, and J. Thomson — Table of Weekly Wages, &c. — Length of Life amongst Colliers, by Dr m'kellar — Difl'erent Systems of Light ing to Work in Mines — Coal Draining — The Heuch. |
