SEAMEN’S MORTALITY
UNHEALTHY CONDITIONS
(United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)
(Recd. January 12, 10 a.m.) LONDON, January 11
Ernest Bevin, secretary of t,he Transport Workers’ Union, and officials of the marine section thereof, sharply criticised the.seamen’s working conditions as responsible for the highest deathrate of any class of workers. The legal minimum space per sailor is 120 cubic feet, lockers and fittings reduce this to eightyeight. A workhouse inmate gets 440, and a convict eight hundred. Official figures, showing sailors’ death rate as more serious than miners’, do not indicate the full difference because sick sailors seeking jobs ashore are not classed as mariners, when they die. Mr. James Henson declares that the seamen’s mortality is 48.8 per cent., and the accident deathrate 430 per cent, above the average. 221 sailors die of tuberculosis, compared with every 112 miners.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 January 1929, Page 8
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