§ Mr. TINKERasked the Secretary for Mines the total number of pit-head baths in use at the present time and the average number of persons who use them, with corresponding figures for Lancashire?
§ Mr. E. BROWNThe number of mines in Great Britain with pit-head baths in use at the present time is 130, of which 12 are in Lancashire. I regret that I am unable to state the average number of persons at present using them, but in general it ranges between 70 and 100 per cent. of the number employed at the mines concerned. The total number of men and boys employed in December, 1931, at the mines which now have baths in use was 164,707, of whom 13,331 were at mines in Lancashire.