§ 39. Mr. GORDON MACDONALDasked the Secretary for Mines the rate per 1,000 at which boys and youths under 21 years of age employed below ground in the coal mines of Great Britain were killed and injured during the last 10 years, giving separate figures for each of the divisions into which the coalfields are divided?
NUMBER of Boys and Youths under 20 years of age killed and injured per 1,000 employed below ground at mines under the Coal Mines Act, 1911 (excluding the stratified ironstone mines of Cleveland, Lincoln and Northampton) during the years 1925 and 1927 to 1929. Injury rates relate to boys and youths who were injured and disabled for more than 3 days. | ||||||||
District. | Death Rates. | Injury Bates. | ||||||
1925. | 1927. | 1928. | 1929. | 1925. | 1927. | 1928. | 1929. | |
Scotland | 0.91 | 1.28 | 1.31 | 1.45 | 168 | 197 | 178 | 170 |
Northumberland | 1.21 | 0.59 | 1.70 | 0.86 | 284 | 308 | 349 | 368 |
Durham | 1.07 | 1.21 | 0.98 | 1.22 | 237 | 298 | 307 | 327 |
Lancashire, Cheshire and North Staffordshire. | 0.70 | 1.06 | 0.96 | 0.89 | 165 | 188 | 175 | 173 |
Yorkshire | 1.19 | 1.09 | 1.23 | 1.31 | 237 | 225 | 207 | 213 |
North Derby and Nottingham | 0.93 | 0.85 | 0.94 | 0.71 | 251 | 222 | 213 | 224 |
South Derby, Leicester, Cannock Chase and Warwick. | 0.51 | 0.20 | 0.43 | 0.71 | 192 | 209 | 171 | 185 |
South Wales and Monmouth | 0.88 | 1.00 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 172 | 178 | 198 | 209 |
Other Districts* | 1.97 | 1.31 | 0.88 | 0.65 | 176 | 220 | 216 | 208 |
All Districts | 1.00 | 1.02 | 1.03 | 1.04 | 207 | 222 | 222 | 231 |
*Including Cumberland, Westmorland, North Wales, South Staffordshire, Worcester, Salop, Gloucester, Somerset and Kent. |