ACCIDENTS TO SERVANTS.
After a year's experience of insuring employers of male a::d female servants against their liability under the English Compensation Act of 1906, the insurance companies are unanimous in declaring that the compensation they have had to pay has greatly exceeded their expectations. The London "Daily Express" considers that if the high accident rate among servants is maintained, domestic service will have to be classed as a dangerous occupation. Actuaries declare that the present premium of 2s 6d a head is too lo\*\ but most of the companies have decided to continue the present rate tor another year. According to statistics, the unlucidest indoor servants are cooks, who run the risk of burns and cuts, and housemaids, who are liable to fall down9tair3 or out of windows. Chauffeurs, to thci surprise of the companies, escaped almost scathless. The premium for then was fixed at £1 in most cases, but they proved even more foiturate in the matter of accident than did ; scuilery-maids.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9171, 20 August 1908, Page 4
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164ACCIDENTS TO SERVANTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9171, 20 August 1908, Page 4
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