§ Mr. S. MITCHELLasked the Home Secretary the number of deaths and the number of cases of illness which occur annually among those working at coke ovens and furnaces; the average length of time employés are able to stand this form of work; and if this employment is classed as a dangerous occupation?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSI regret that the information asked for in the first two parts of the question is not available. As regards the last part, employment at coke ovens has not been treated as an unhealthy occupation. No complaints of sickness among coke oven workers have been received, and it would appear from the mortality tables published in Part IV of the Supplement to the Seventy-fifth Annual Report of the Registrar-General for England and Wales (pages 2 and 31) that the mortality among coke burners in the three years 1910–1912 was considerably below the average for the population generally.