§ MR. FELLI beg to ask the Undersecretary of State for the Colonies how many natives employed in the Transvaal mines died in the month of December last, and how many Chinese; and what * percentage these numbers bear to the? numbers of each class employed
§ MR. CHURCHILLI have no official information. But from Press telegrams it appears that the number of Chinese employed in December was 37,728, and. the number of deaths 66, giving a death rate of 20.9 per 1,000 per annum, whiles the native death rate for the whole of 1907 is stated to have been 32.42 per 1,000 per annum. I cannot give the native death rate for December separately; and I cannot vouch for the: accuracy of the figures.