HC Deb 24 July 1963 vol 681 c205W
Mr. Ellis Smith

asked the Minister of Power if he will set out in tabular form the number of men engaged in the mining industry in North Staffordshire who suffered from pneumoconiosis for the years 1953, 1957, 1959, 1961, and 1962, the percentage of the total employed, and the national percentage for the same years.

Mr. Peyton

The figures for coal mining are as follows:

North Staffordshire Great Britain
Number of cases first diagnosed Percentage of total employed Cases first diagnosed as percentage of total employed
1953 434 2.20 0.57
1957 513 2.38 0.53
1959 94 0.46 0.53
1961 91 0.56 0.48
1962 88 0.56 0.39

The 1962 figures are provisional.

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