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THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL

Table B.

Table showing number of hours worked by underground workers other than hewers, based on the Return of the Home Office.


District Men and
boys con-
veying
minerals
from the
face to
the pit
bottom.
Average
No. of
hours
per
week.
Average
number
of hours
per week
for
meals.
Average
weekly
hours
actually
at work.
Other
under-
ground
workers.
Average
number
of hours
worked
per
week.
Average
number
of hours
per week
for
meals.
Average
weekly
hours
actually
at work.
Clackmannan 187 45·1 5·1 40 194 51·1 5·3 45·8
Edinburgh 988 49·2 4·0 45·2 608 47·9 4·0 43·9
Fife, Kinross, & Perth 1,380 47·5 3·1 44·4 1,124 47·0 3·1 43·9
Haddington 153 39·2 3·1 36·1 80 40·7 3·6 36·1
Lanark, pt. of 3,668 52·3 5·3 37·0 1,644 56·1 5·5 50·6
Linlithgow 938 49·6 4·6 45·0 504 55·4 4·9 50·5
Stirling, pt. of 700 45·4 6·0 39·4 235 56·7 6·2 50·5
Ayrshire 1,078 49·0 4·9 44·1 1,178 50·0 4·9 45·1
Stirling, pt. of 369 50·5 4·5 46·0 233 51·6 4·9 46·7
Lanark, pt. of 2,331 46·1 4·6 41·5 1,802 51·5 4·8 46·7
Dumbarton 358 47·5 5·1 42·4 266 49·6 4·5 44·1
Renfrew 243 47·9 5·0 42·9 161 54·8 5·5 49·3
Argyle & Dumfries 29 52·4 10·6 41·8 46 52·1 11·0 41·1
Newcastle 4,745 54·1 2·6 51·5 6,481 45·9 2·8 43·1
Durham, pt. of 4,909 57·3 4·1 53·2 4,858 44·4 2·7 41·7
Durham 12,920 59·0 4·7 54·3 10,767 48·1 4·6 43·5
Westmoreland
Yorks, N.R.
Yorkshire 13,443 45·3 4·0 41·3 8,190 43·5 4·1 39·4
Lancashire, N. & E. 5,053 47·8 5·1 42·7 4,479 47·9 5·1 42·7
        „         W. 5,730 49·5 5·0 44·5 6,330 48·1 5·0 43·0
Denbigshire 1,194 46·8 3·3 43·5 936 46·8 3·1 43·7
Flintshire 462 51·6 3·6 48·0 288 51·6 3·9 47·7
Derbyshire 5,393 47·9 2·4 45·5 2,815 49·0 2·7 46·3
Leicestershire 741 47·9 2·5 45·4 538 47·2 2·5 44·7
Nottinghamshire 2,569 46·2 2·4 43·8 2,189 48·0 2·5 45·5
Warwickshire 1,328 50·4 3·7 46·7 538 50·2 3·9 46·3
Cheshire 486 50·3 2·7 47·6 121 48·8 3·2 45·6
Shropshire 498 45·8 3·5 43·3 159 48·6 3·6 45·0
Staffordshire, N. 3,859 48·8 3·3 43·5 2,112 49·8 3·4 46·6
         „          S. 3,857 45·2 4·1 41·1 2,245 45·3 4·3 41·0
Worcestershire 550 45·2 4·1 41·1 320 45·3 4·3 41·0
Breconshire, pt. of 2,634 54·4 (a) . . 3,541 53·4 (a) . .
Glamorganshire
Monmouthshire
Somersetshire 1,382 54·0 (a) . . 789 60·8 (a) . .
Gloucestershire 911 49·5 (a) . . 1,092 49·2 (a) . .
Breconshire, pt. of 41 52·2 5·8 46·4 15 51·3 none 51·3
Carmarthenshire 296 49·4 8·1 41·3 203 52·2 5·6 46·6
Glamorganshire 8,253 51·4 3·7 47·7 14,086 51·5 3·7 47·8
Pembroke 172 52·5 2·9 49·6 52 51·7 2·9 48·8

(a) The time allowed for meals is not stated in the Return, but Mr. Abraham estimates the weekly meal time at from two to three hours.


From this table it appears that the only districts where the hours apart from meal time of underground workers exceed at the present time forty-eight hours per week are given on the next page.

It is apparent that a very small portion of the mining popula-