§ 65. Mr. PALINGasked the Secretary for Mines the number of mine workers reported as suffering from silicosis in each of the years from 1915 to 1925, inclusive?
§ The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)Silicosis among mine workers is not a disease required to be reported, and detailed information is therefore not available, but the number of cases is known to be small and, so far as coal mines are concerned, is almost negligible.
§ Mr. PALINGHas it increased at all from 1914 up to the present?
§ Colonel LANE FOXThe increase, if any, has been very small indeed.