SAILORS’ DEATH-RATE
CONDITIONS CRITICISED POOR WORKING CONDITIONS (United Service) LONDON. Friday. Mr. Ernest Bevin, secretary of the Transport "Workers’ Union and the officials of its marine section sharply criticise the seamen’s working conditions as being responsible for the highest death-rate of any class of workers. The legal minimum space per sailor is 120 cubic feet. Lockers and fittingreduce this to- 88ft. A workhouse inmate gets 440 cubic feet, a convict 80t>. The official figures, while showing that the sailors’ death-rate is more serious than that of the miners, do not indicate the full difference, because sick sailors seeking jobs on shore are not classed as mariners when they die. Mr. James Henson declares that the mortality among seamen is 48. S per centum, and the accident death-rate 4.30 per centum above the average. 11c says 221 sailors die of tuberculosi. . compared with ever 112 miners.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 560, 12 January 1929, Page 7
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145SAILORS’ DEATH-RATE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 560, 12 January 1929, Page 7
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