§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state the number of fatal accidents resulting from parachute performances in Great Britain since 1890, and how many of the persons killed were males and how many were females.
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. RITCHIE,) CroydonNo, Sir. Fatal accidents resulting from parachute performances, being of rare occurrence, are not classified separately in the Registrar General's returns. But I may say that during the period 1890 to 1900 the wider heading "Falls from Balloons" shows the deaths of two males and one female.