HC Deb 07 July 1958 vol 591 c3W
33. Miss Lee

asked the Minister of Health the number of coal miners and agricultural workers, respectively, whose deaths were due to bronchitis in the last full year recorded.

Mr. Walker-Smith

These figures are not prepared for individual years.

The total number of deaths attributed to bronchitis in the five-year period 1949–1953 among men aged 20–64 in the groups in question was:

Coal miners 1,540
Agricultural workers 692