human
I can stop it, as far as this family is concerned, the health officer said,
gpt
What?
human
It means, if I take their work away, they will starve to death in a couple of weeks.
gpt
And if you don't?
human
If I don't, they'll go on spreading disease. Oh, I'll have to put a stop to it, of course, but tell me what is going to happen to the family.
gpt
They ought to go to a hospital,
human
They are not hospital cases, he said.
gpt
None of them need more medical attention than they can get in a dispensary, and every hospital to which they applied would treat them in an Out-Patient department. They would have to take in more work, or die.
human
But where would they get the work?
gpt
Any of these sweatshop jobbers will give it to them. It makes no difference to the middlemen where the work is done or out of what dens it comes, as long as it is done cheap.
human
And is all clothing open to the same risk?
gpt
Cheap clothing is not, he said,