5214. You are considerably deformed in your person in consequence of this labour?
Yes, I am.
5215. At what time did it come on?
I was about 13 years old when it began coming, and it has got worse since; it is five years since my mother died, and my mother was never able to get me a pair of good stays to hold me up, and when my mother died I had to do for myself, and got me a pair.
5216. Were you perfectly straight and healthy before you worked at a mill?
Yes, I was as straight a little girl as ever went up and down town.
5217. Were you straight till you were 13?
Yes, I was.
5218. Have you been attended to by any medical gentleman at Leeds or the neighbourhood?
Yes, I have been under Mr. Hares.