District.

NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED IN COAL MINING*,
DISTRICT OF GREAT BRITAIN

The Table includes particulars of all persons who were employed in raising or handling coal, or in connection in washing coal. In all cases allowance has been made for persons who were employed in raising or handling other

CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO AGE AND SEX, IN EACH COLLIERY
IN THE YEAR 1924.

therewith, including those employed on sidings at the pits and on private branch railways and tramways, and

NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED IN COAL MINING* AND AVERAGE

[Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Secretary for Mines,

OUTPUT PER HEAD IN THE UNITED KINGDOM†, 1910-1924.

supplemented by information specially supplied by the Mines Department.]

23,066 29,577 32,007 27,942 29,146 30,936 31,722 11,281 14,692 15,678 14,529 15,179 15,792 15,925 69,372 80,422 82,690 75,850 74,062 80,108 77,845

Scotland:

Fife and Clackmannan.

Lothians (Mid and East).

Lanarkshire, Linlithgow,
Stirling, Renfrew and
Dumbarton.

Ayrshire, Dumfries and Argyll.

990,332

1,170,105 1,226,885 1,131,596 1,148,510† 1,203,384† 1,213,884† United Kingdom.†

The statistics for 1922 and subsequent years are exclusive of the Irish Free State.

NUMBER OF WAGE-EARNERS EMPLOYED AT COAL MINES* IN GREAT DECREASE IN JANUARY, 1926, AS

[Extracted from Volume 3—Appendices and Index—of the

The figures relate to all mines at which coal was raised, and include a small number of