does not exist to-day. With no little consterna-
tion we saw toys and infants' clothing, and
sometimes food itself, made under conditions
that would not have been tolerated in factories,
even at that time. And the connection of re-
mote communities and individuals with the
East Side of New York was impressed upon
us when we saw a roomful of children's clothing
shipped to the Southern trade from a tenement
where there were sixteen cases of measles.
One of our patients, in an advanced stage of
tuberculosis, until our appearance on the scene,
sat coughing in her bed, making cigarettes and
moistening the paper with her lips. In another
tenement in a nearby street we found children
ill with scarlet fever. The parents worked as
finishers of women's cloaks of good quality, evi-
dently meant to be worn by the well-to-do.
The garments covered the little patients, and
the bed on which they lay was practically used
as a work-table. The possibility of infection is
perhaps the most obvious disadvantage of home
work, and great changes have been wrought
since the days when we first knew the sweat-
shop; but we are here discussing only its con-
nection with the children.

When work is carried on in the home all the
members of the family can be and are utilized
without regard to age or the restrictions of the

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