HC Deb 03 March 1931 vol 249 cc192-3
39. Mr. GORDON MACDONALD

asked 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.