combing-rooms

Updated: July 28, 2026

But besides all this, there are some branches of factory-work which have an especially injurious effect. In many rooms of the cotton and flax- spinning mills, the air is filled with fibrous dust, which produces chest affections, especially among workers in the carding and combing-rooms. Some constitutions can bear it, some cannot; but the operative has no choice.

Friedrich Engels - The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844: with a Preface written in 1892