HC Deb 02 July 1896 vol 42 c521
MR. JOHN ELLIS (Nottingham, Rushcliffe)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, will he state what number of lives were lost in coal mines during each of the years 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, and the first six months of 1896, from explosions of various kinds?

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY,) Lancashire, Blackpool

The numbers are: In 1890, 319; in 1891, 76; in 1892, 146; in 1893, 175; in 1894, 329; in 1895, 76; in the first six months of 1896, 169.