What is the main idea of this passage?

when i was a surgeon in the infirmary, accidents were very often admitted to the infirmary, through the children's hands and arms having being caught in the machinery; in many instances the muscles, and the skin is stripped down to the bone, and in some instances a finger or two might be lost.

–dr. michael ward, testifying before england's
parliament in 1819

children often suffered severe injuries from working in factories.

few children were injured while working in factories.

parliament made laws that keep children safe.

children worked long hours in the factory and received little pay.

answer is

Option(A)

Children often suffered severe injuries from working in factories

Explanation:

We are given in the passage that when the writer was a surgeon, many accident cases of children having skin stripped down to bone or fingers being lost by working with machineries have been admitted in to the infirmary.

Thus it clearly means that these children worked in factories with machines and suffered severe injuries from working is the statement inferred from it.

answer: i looked it up

explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.

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