When I examine children of different occupations I can tell immediately what they do without them telling me, if it is weight-bearing job their bone structure is amazingly different and you can see the compression of the cartilage where bones are closing in each other and most certainly causing arthritis at a early age. This is most upsetting seeing these cases come in from hard labour and then advising them what to do and them going straight back to that and damaging them so much more. They have no chose because there is no other place for them to go and work.

Children at a young age have very subtle bones and putting young children under such pressure is completely deforming their bodies and limiting the amount of growth, especially in young girls because this can cause there pelvis to form a funny shape and so therefore when they come to child birth the space is not the right shape and so they have to kill the baby to keep the mother's life.

I have seen this happen and I must say it is a very distressing time for the surgeon and for the mother.

I have seen terrible cases of children with half their arm missing and legs missing and terrible injuries and I reckon if they just brought in small rules like you are not allowed to make children work when they are tired, ill or over night. Mine shafts should have more then a piece of stick to balance on there should be a box like a lift and it would cost hardly anything.