§ SIR EDWARD WATKINasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to the fact reported by the Registrar General, that in the three years 1870, 1871, and 1872, two hundred and twelve deaths have arisen from accidents connected with agricultural machinery; and, if he proposes to institute any system of inquiry into the causes of this class of fatal accidents?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, it was perfectly true that during 1870, 78 deaths had occurred from accidents caused by agricultural machinery; that in 1871 there were 64 such deaths; in 1872, 70; and in 1873, 68. It was not, however, the intention of the Government to make any special inquiry into this matter, because all the causes of death were to be found at the office of the Registrar General. The information, therefore, was open to anyone who chose to go to the Registrar General's office.