MR. J. HAVELOCK WILSONI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade, having regard to the fact that Part II., Section 240, paragraph 5 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, provides that the master of a ship, for which an official log is required, shall enter every case of illness or injury happening to a member of the crew and the nature thereof, whether he can state any sufficient reason for the entire omission of the number of such accidents in the monthly issues of the Labour Gazette of the Board of Trade; and whether he will undertake that in future issues of that organ the Returns of such accidents, which are easily accessible, will be given in like manner with other industries on shore?
§ MR. RITCHIEI will consider whether in future issues of the Labour Gazette it is practicable to supplement the Return of deaths of seamen now published by a Return of accidents, but I do not think it necessary to include cases of illness.