§ Mr. FELLasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he has now received particulars from South Africa of the number of natives at present employed in the mines of the Transvaal; from what countries they were recruited; and the death rate of those from the Transvaal, the 1644W Mozambique territories, and from Central Africa, respectively?
Mr. HARCOURTfurnished the following particulars of natives employed in all mines and works in proclaimed labour districts of the Transvaal (inclusive of natives employed by contractors):—
MARCH, 1911. Territory. Average No. of Natives employed. Deaths from Disease. Rate per 1,000 Per annum. Basutoland 8,835 20 27.2 British Bechuanaland 1,635 0 0 Cape Province 62,355 69 13.3 East Coast, South of Lat. 22° 80,085 199 29.8 Natal and Zululand 16,339 1 11.8 Orange Free State 1,299 1 9.2 Swaziland 2,785 13 56.0 Transvaal 22,042 22 12.0 Others South of Lat. 22° 210 0 0 Beira and Chinde 234 0 0 British Nyasaland Protectorate 2,003 13 77.9 German South West Africa 348 0 0 Mozambique 10,383 57 65.9 North Eastern Rhodesia and Fort Jameson 87 0 0 Nyasa 3,641 25 82.4 Southern Rhodesia 994 3 36.2 Zambesia, Quilimane and Tete 6,897 68 118.3 Total 220,172 506 27.6