WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION

Statistics of
Compensation and of Proceedings

Under The Workmen's Compensation Acts,

Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the
Home Department by Command of His Majesty

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY LETTER

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PART I. Statistics of Compensation Paid in certain

Industries.

TABLE 1.-Summary of Payments for Compensation

TABLE 2.-Payments for Compensation in Cases of Accident ..

TABLE 3.-Payments for Compensation in Cases of Industrial

Disease

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TABLE 4.-Duration of Compensation (exclusive of cases ter-

minated by payment of a lump sum)

TABLE 5.-Payments in Lump Sums for Compensation

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TABLE 6.-Cases of Industrial Disease classified according to

Employment..

PART II.-General Statistics as to Administration

of the Acts.

TABLE 7.-Number and Nature of Legal Proceedings under

the Workmen's Compensation Acts and Employers'

Liability Act ..

TABLE 8.-Applications for Arbitration and Amounts of

Compensation Awarded under the Workmen's

Compensation Acts ..

TABLE 9.-Memoranda Registered and Amounts of Compen-

sation Agreed under the Workmen's Compensation

Acts ..

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TABLE 10.--Actions and Amount of Damages awarded under

the Employers' Liability Act.

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TABLE 11.-Appeals under the Workmen's Compensation Acts

and the Employers' Liability Act ..

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TABLE 12.-Certificates of Disablement, &c., given by Certifying

and Appointed Surgeons-

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM JOYNSON-HICKS, BART., M.P., HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF

Sir,

STATE FOR the Home Department.

I have the honour to present herewith Statistics of Compensation and of Proceedings during the year 1926 under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, and the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, which have been collected and tabulated in the Statistical Branch of the Home Office. Annual statistics have been published from 1908 onwards, excepting the four war years 1915 to 1918.

The volume contains:

I. Statistics as to compensation paid during 1926 under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, in the seven great groups of industries in which returns are called for from employers under section 42 of the consolidating Act of 1925 (which re-enacted section 12 of the Act of 1906), viz.:-mines, quarries, railways, factories, docks, constructional work and shipping. These groups embrace a large proportion of the chief industries, but it has to be borne in mind that they do not by any means cover the whole field. Besides the various commercial, clerical and domestic employments to which the Act applies, there are several important industries which are not covered by the returns, for example, building, road transport, and agriculture.

II. General statistics for 1926 in regard to the administration of the Workmen's Compensation Acts, together with particulars relating to the Employers' Liability Act, 1880.

It is important to recall that owing to the prolonged stoppage in the coal mining industry in 1926, abnormal conditions prevailed during a large part of the year. These conditions are reflected to a marked degree in the Statistics, and especially in the figures in Part I, the statistical value of which has been seriously affected.

It should be mentioned that cases arising in Ireland, which were included in the Statistics for 1921 and previous years, are not included in the Statistics for 1922 to 1926, the power to collect statistics of such cases being now vested in the Governments of Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. In the comparative tables, which are given below in Part I, it has not been possible to exclude the Irish cases from the figures for the years previous to 1922, and this must of course affect, though not, it is considered, to any material extent, the comparison of the figures for 1922 to 1926 with those of previous years.

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