SEAMEN’S DEATH RATE IS HIGHEST OF ANY CALLING
Conditions Responsible
ACCIDENTS 430 PER CENT ABOVE AVERAGE INCIDENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS. United Press Association —By Electril Telegraph —Copyright. Received Saturday 2 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 11. Mr Ernest Bevin, Secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union and officials of tho marine section, have sharplycriticised the seamen’s working conditions, which are responsible for the highest death rate of any class of workers.
The legal minimum of spaeo per sailor is 120 cubic feet, but lockei fittings reduce this to 88. A workhouse inmate gets 440, and a onvict 800 cubie feet.
Official figures, showing that the sailors’ death rate is more serious than the 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 the seamen’s mortality is 48.8 per centum, and the accident death rate 430 per centum above the average, -while 221 sailors die of tuberculosis as compared with every 112 miners.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6809, 12 January 1929, Page 8
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164SEAMEN’S DEATH RATE IS HIGHEST OF ANY CALLING Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6809, 12 January 1929, Page 8
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