Death Rates amongst Chinese, White Labourers, and Natives in African Mines.

HC Deb 07 March 1906 vol 153 c432

MR. HILLS

To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the average death rate among Chinese coolies, white labourers, and African labourers, respectively, employed in the Transvaal gold mines.

(Answered by Mr. Churchill.) The death rate among Chinese coolies for 1905 was 18.386 per thousand, among African labourers 47.13; per thousand; the mortality among white labourers on the mines is not separately given from that among the white population generally.