THOUSANDS OF ACCIDENTS.
- The world's greatest port, tho Port of London, has many wonderful to boast about, such as 25 million ton* of merchandise entered every year, its stock of tea weighing 186 million pounds, the five-and-a-quartcr million yards of silk and cotton goods it deals with every year from China, Japan and Bengal. A figure that is less satisfactory concerns the accidents which happen to those dealing with these masses of goods. A thousand accidents a week caused by dock casualties are treated in Poplar Hospital, one accident every three minutes of each working day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 14 (Supplement)
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96THOUSANDS OF ACCIDENTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 14 (Supplement)
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