§ Colonel DAYasked the President of the Board of Trade the number of seamen, including lascars, who have been killed by casualties or died from disease in vessels registered in Great Britain under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, for the 12 months ended to the last convenient date?
§ Sir B. CHADWICKThe number of deaths from all causes reported as having occurred during 1926 among the crews of all vessels registered in the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping Acts, was 1,449, of' which 95 occurred among the crews of fishing vessels.
The detailed figures are as follow:
— Trading Vessels. Fishing Vessels. Deaths from casualty to vessel. 214 39 Deaths from accidents, other than casualty to vessel. 337 46 Deaths from disease 744 10 Deaths from homicide and suicide. 59 — Total deaths 1,354 95 The above figures are subject to slight revision.