§ 21. Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGEasked the Secretary of Mines if he can give 2788 the number of fatal accidents in the mining industry of Great Britain per 10,000 men for 1922–23, 1923–24 and 1924–25; and if he can obtain similar figures for the Russian mines?
§ The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)The number of separate fatal accidents in the mining industry of Great Britain was at the rate of nine per 10,000 persons employed in 1923, 1924 and 1925. At Russian mines the corresponding numbers were eight in the year ended September, 1924, and 10 in the following year. Particulars for 1922–3 are not available.