Dr.Ward was asked by Mr.Pooley to exam the children. Dr. Ward say “I can give you particulars, if desired, of Mr. Pooley’s factory. He employs 401 persons; and, of the persons examined in 1796, 22 were found to be of delicate appearances, 2 were entered as sickly, 3 in bad health, one subject to convulsions, 8 cases of scrofula (tuberculosis): in good health, 363.”