Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1858 — Sanitary Condition of Printiogoffices. [ARTICLE]

Sanitary Condition of Printiogoffices.

Amongst th. t 1..; and professions opposed to the duration of life which are followed in the metn polls Ly large numbers of persons, few air were Ah tai than that of the. compositor and printer. The. number of deaths from consumption amongst th?m is very large. Those who have visited‘dome of «the London offices. which have been adapted for th; - purpose from old-!rwhioned-d wi llinghouses, will not for a moment doubt Hutt the deaths and Joss ofHiealtli are to be attributed to jj[ condition of tike atmosphere, produced by t. the space, and setting at defiance u»l ■■■•nitary .principles. Xe.r are the editors’and of the press in many cases better acconimplated. Men. well aware of the danger, are shut into closets, partitioned-off from the ill-vent Hated-space, and little larger than : full-sized coffins! Sketches of somuof these literary i dens, in tyhich are accommodated men who are earnestly working to elevate taste and improve the condition of the c imhiiunity, would astonfsh ninny readers. Chamies for the better have either been imide (tr ;>re in progress in various quarters. .Much, however, that is bad still remains to be ialtereii; and taking the whole of the sanitary arrangements, that have been -proxidvd for those engaged in the printing profession in a mass, there remains defects sufficiently to. account as clearly for the loss of life in printing-offices as in the barracks of the.metropolis. —'l hi Jjiiilder.