§ MR. ELLIS DAVIES (Carnarvonshire, Eifion)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of fatal accidents in slate quarries in Carnarvonshire during the year ending 31st December, 1907, to those employed inside, and outside the quarries; and what proportion the accidents to those inside bear to the total number of workmen inside the quarry.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The number of fatal accidents to those employed at slate quarries in Carnarvonshire during the year ending 31st December, 1907, was as follows—
The proportion the accidents to those inside bear to the total number of workmen inside the quarry was in every 386, or nearly 2.6 per 1,000.
Inside the quarries 8 Outside the quarries 2