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the laundries particularly where so many women got their arms caught in mangles. We were also investigating the still fairly common textile mills accidents of a woman getting her hair caught in the machinery and being scalped. Scalping was almost exclusively an accident of the textiles mills. It was frequent enough so that it stuck in my mind as being one of the great hazards. I've seen many women who've been scalped and healed up. It wasn't exclusively textile mills. For instance, we did have them in the sewing trades in New York where they'd get down under the machines to recover a spool, or to fix a belt, or something of that sort. Their hair would get caught in the wheel that was going around. The old sewing machines had no guard on the wheels. There was a big wheel run by electricity. It was in spokes and was going all the time. When a girl with long hair would crawl under to get a spool, her hair would get caught and it was over in a minute. We were investigating those accidents.

We were approaching a period in the Consumers' League where we hoped to be able to make some strong recommendations as to accident prevention. Previously the earlier recommendations had been for sanitation in the factories and providing proper sanitary facilities for women when women began to work there - places to wash, drinking water and all that