ACCIDENTS IN CERTAIN INDUSTRIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM– 1924.

Compensation Acts, supplemented by information specially supplied by the Northern Ireland.)

on incomplete information, are:-1915-Fatal 3,623, non-fatal 389,247; 1916-Fatal 3,716, non-fatal 384,714; 1917

† Great Britain and Northern Ireland only.

§ Including cotton and wool in Northern Ireland.

NUMBER OF CASES AND AMOUNT OF PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF

KINGDOM,

(Extracted from Statistics of Compensation and of Proceedings under the Workmen's

SHIPPING.

Government of

FACTORIES.

INDUSTRIAL DISEASES IN CERTAIN INDUSTRIES IN THE UNITED 1910-24.

Compensation Acts, supplemented by information specially supplied by the Northern Ireland.)

735 674,390

35

1,221

378

378 714,498

.. †1924

INDUSTRIAL DISEASES.

NUMBERS OF FATAL AND NON-FATAL CASES OF ACCIDENTS AND INDUSTRIAL DISEASES PER 1,000 PERSONS EMPLOYED IN CERTAIN INDUSTRIES DEALT WITH UNDER THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACTS, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 1910-1924.

(Compiled from Statistics of Compensation and of Proceedings under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, and from information specially supplied by the Government of Northern Ireland).

NUMBER OF NON-FATAL CAses per 1,000 PERSONS Employed.

1919

1920

1921

1922*

18.3 30.1 63.2 121.8 60.4 31.3 31.6 43.7 21.1 32.6 70.3 115.3 60.5 41.6 32.5 45.8 20.6 26.1 67.8 101.4 58.8 42.8 28.5 38.7 21.9 26.7 81.0 190.6 61.4 50.4

29.6 53.3

TRADE UNIONS AND OTHER EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATIONS.

173

NUMBER AND TOTAL MEMBERSHIP OF TRADE UNIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, 1892-1924.

[Compiled from Returns collected by the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, the Registrar of Friendly Societies for Northern Ireland, and the Ministry of Labour. The figures include the TOTAL membership of all Unions with head offices in Great Britain or Northern Ireland.]

* The subdivision of the total membership into male and female is not exact, as estimates have been made for some Trade Unions which are unable to state precisely the numbers of males and females comprised within their membership.

The figures given for 1924 are provisional;

Note.-The statistics relate to all organisations of employees-including those of salaried and professional workers, as well as those of manual wage earners which are known to include among their functions that of negotiating with employers with the object of regulating the conditions of employment of their members. The figures of membership include members in the Irish Free State and other overseas branches numbering approximately