Question: Have you carried out a survey lately, with reference to spinning-factories in Manchester?

Answer: I carried out a survey in seven factories.

Question: Did that arise from any particular applications to yourself.

Answer: I had an application made to myself by the chairman of the committee of cotton-spinners.

Question: What observation did you make with regard to the state of health of the adults and children employed in those seven factories.

Answer: That it was generally good.

Question: What was the state of ventilation of the several factories you visited?

Answer: It was good.

Question: Have you found that persons who have grown up in the business of cotton-spinners are generally less healthy than those who have followed other occupations?

Answer: No, I have not found them worse looking.

Question: Have you found that the infirmities of age came on sooner than with persons in general?

Answer: No; I have not.

Question: Is a daily employment of thirteen and fourteen hours a day, in an erect position, and in a temperature of 80, consistent with safety to the constitutions of children from six to sixteen?

Answer: I cannot answer that question.

Question: Are you aware that the flue they inhale might be injurious to health?

Answer: I am not.

Question: Did you, on examining the several cases of distortion, perceive anything which led you to conclude that distortion was caused by the employment in the cotton-works?

Answer: No, I did not.

Question: Who determined as to the seven which were to be visited out of the forty-seven factories?

Answer: The proprietors.