§ MR. JOHNSON (Gateshead)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Trade if he can state the number of seamen killed and drowned on British ships from the beginning of the year 1896 till the end of the year 1904; the number of men employed in the shipping industry; the number of men killed in the factories and workshops in the same period; and the number of men employed in factories and workshops.
(Answered by Mr. Bonar Law.) The figures asked for by the hon. Member are given, as regards seamen, in Parliamentary Paper [Cd. 2232] for the years 1896 to 1903. The figures for 1904 are not yet complete, but the lives reported to present date as having been lost are 990, namely, 417 by wrecks and casualties, 348 by drowning other than by wrecks and casualties, and 225 by accident other than drowning, wreck, or casualty. The number of men employed in 1904 has not 936 yet been ascertained. The number of males killed in factories and workshops during the years 1896 to 1904 was 7, 944. The number of males employed in factories and workshops has not been ascertained since 1897, when it was 2, 975, 394.