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Statistical Compendium

This statistical compendium has been compiled as part of the Wellcome Trust Programme Award, ‘Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields, 1780-1948’. It draws on the work of the research team: Professor Anne Borsay, Professor David Turner, Dr Kirsti Bohata, Dr Daniel Blackie, Dr Mike Mantin and Alexandra Jones (Swansea University); Dr Steven Thompson and Dr Ben Curtis (Aberystwyth University); Dr Vicky Long (Glasgow Caledonian University) and Dr Victoria Brown (Northumbria University/Glasgow Caledonian University); and Professor Arthur McIvor and Dr Angela Turner (Strathclyde University).

The contents of the statistical compendium derive from a variety of sources utilised in the course of the research, including official Parliamentary papers, published works, annual reports, Poor Law records, trade union materials, employers’ associations’ documents, and other sources. They are intended as a snapshot of disability and as illustrative examples of the various ways in which impairment was experienced, understood and responded to in different contexts in the period concerned.

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Browse by section:

  1. General
  2. Accidents
  3. Occupational Disease 
  4. Medicine
  5. Welfare
  6. Workmen's Compensation

 

1. General

  • 1.1. Coal production and employment, 1853 to 1952. PDF / MS Word
  • 1.2. The Scale of Coalmining in the Mid-Victorian period. PDF / MS Word
  • 1.3. Number of persons employed in and about coal mines, 1882-1948; United Kingdom and particular coalfields. PDF / MS Word
  • 1.4. Annual production of coal (thousands of tons), 1882-1948, United Kingdom and particular coalfields. PDF / MS Word

 

2. Accidents

United Kingdom

  • 2.1. Summary of returns made by Clerks of the Peace of Coroners Inquests concerning people who had met with untimely deaths in the Mines of England and Wales’ since 1810 (1835). PDF / MS Word
  • 2.2. Causes of Death January 1851 to December 1859 in coal-pits, derived from Mine Inspector Reports. PDF / MS Word
  • 2.3. Number of Persons Killed and Injured and Number of Persons Employed at Mines under the Coal Mines Acts, in Great Britain and Ireland, during the years 1904 to 1908, 1910 to 1918 and 1920 to 1925, so far as particulars are available. PDF / MS Word
  • 2.4 Fatal accidents reported under Coal Mines Regulation Acts, United Kingdom, 1875 to 1947. PDF / MS Word

North-East of England

  • 2.5. Accidents and Injuries to Men and Boys employed underground in the Colliery of East Holywell, during the year ending 24 May 1841. PDF / MS Word
  • 2.6. Bodily injuries in non-fatal accidents, Haswell Colliery, 1849 and 1850. PDF / MS Word
  • 2.7. Data on causes of death among miners and men who worked in and around Collieries, provided by the Registrar of Easington Poor Law Union, 1853-63. PDF / MS Word
  • 2.8. Rates of Industrial Accident (Including Industrial Diseases) in two Coal Owners’ Mutual Protection Associations in the north of England, 1937. PDF / MS Word

Scotland

  • 2.9. Scottish Mine Owners’ Defence and Mutual Insurance Association, Accident Register, October 1922 and 1927. PDF / MS Word
  • 2.10. Fife Coal Company safety and accident statistics, 1936-45. PDF / MS Word
  • 2.11. William Baird & Company: Injury & Fatal Accident Register, Gartshore, 1945-46. PDF / MS Word

 

3. Occupational Disease 

United Kingdom

  • 3.1. Cases of beat disease, 1908 to 1938. PDF / MS Word
  • 3.2. Cases of Miners’ Nystagmus, 1908 to 1938. PDF / MS Word

North-East of England

  • 3.3. Northumberland and Durham Miners’ Permanent Relief Fund, Permanent Disablement Registers, 1920-1969. PDF / MS Word

Scotland

  • 3.4. Cases of Industrial Disease among workforce of the Fife Coal Company, 1936-1945. PDF / MS Word

South Wales

  • 3.5. South Wales Miners' Federation, Silicosis Cases, January 1929 to February 1932. PDF / MS Word
  • 3.6. National Union of Mineworkers (South Wales Area), Area 2 (Neath and Afan valleys), Silicosis / pneumoconiosis cases, 1933-46. PDF / MS Word
  • 3.7. National Union of Mineworkers (South Wales), Area 2 (Neath and Afan valleys), Summary of Silicosis / Pneumoconiosis Cases for 1945. PDF / MS Word
  • 3.8. South Wales Miners’ Federation, Silicosis and Pneumoconiosis Annual Returns, Area No.1 (Anthracite District), 1945. PDF / MS Word
  • 3.9. South Wales Miners’ Federation, Silicosis and Pneumoconiosis Annual Returns, Areas 1-9, 1945. PDF / MS Word

 

4. Medicine

  • 4.1. Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Admission and Discharge Registers, 1847, 1856-7, 1874-5. PDF / MS Word
  • 4.2. Glasgow Ophthalmic Institution, Register of Indoor Patients, 1876-78. PDF / MS Word
  • 4.3. Ingham Infirmary, South Shields, Workmen’s Subscriptions, 1881 to June 1912. PDF / MS Word
  • 4.4. Reports of the Royal Infirmary Newcastle, Coal company subscribers, 1884. PDF / MS Word
  • 4.5. Highfield Public Assistance Institution (Sunderland), Surgeon’s Admission and Discharge Register, 1885 to 1890. PDF / MS Word
  • 4.6. Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Trades and Occupations of In-Door Patients, 1906. PDF / MS Word
  • 4.7. Schaw Auxiliary Home, Register of Admissions and Discharges, 1933 to 1941. PDF / MS Word
  • 4.8. Sources of Cases of Patients Admitted to Northumberland Miners' Rehabilitation Centre during quarter up to 31 December 1945. PDF / MS Word

 

5. Welfare

Poor Law

  • 5.1. Level of pauperism comparing pitmen with other workers, supplied by J. W. Day, Chairman of the Houghton-le-Spring Poor Law Union, 1837 to 1841. PDF / MS Word
  • 5.2. Cases on the pauper roll relating to disability, Wolverhampton Poor Law Union, 1842. PDF / MS Word
  • 5.3. Applications for Poor Relief, Dalziel, Lanarkshire, 1865-1875. PDF / MS Word
  • 5.4. Poor relief assessments, Bedwellty Poor Law Union, 1925-1926. PDF / MS Word

Company paternalism

  • 5.5. Govan Colliery Journals, Payments made to disabled miners, 1852-55. PDF / MS Word
  • 5.6. Northumberland Coal Owners’ Association, Amount of Smart Money paid during the years 1896, 1897. PDF / MS Word
  • 5.7. Dowlais Iron Company Employees’ Truss and Wooden Leg Register, 1891-1902. PDF / MS Word
  • 5.8. Fife Coal Company, safety equipment, 1936-45. PDF / MS Word

Permanent Provident Funds

  • 5.9. Position and Progress of the Northumberland and Durham Miners’ Permanent Relief, 1862-1901. PDF / MS Word
  • 5.10. Northumberland and Durham Miners’ Permanent Relief Fund, Register of Permanent Disablement, 1917. PDF / MS Word
  • 5.11. The Monmouthshire and South Wales Miners' Permanent Provident Society, Statement of Membership, Income and Expenditure, 1881-1920. PDF / MS Word

Convalescent Homes

  • 5.12. The Rest Convalescent Home, Porthcawl, admissions, 1878-1938. PDF / MS Word

 

6. Workmen's Compensation

United Kingdom

  • 6.1. Statistics of the Proceedings in County Courts in England and Wales, and Scotland, under the Workman’s Compensation Act, 1898-99. PDF / MS Word
  • 6.2. Summary of Payments for Compensation in Mines, United Kingdom, 1909-38. PDF / MS Word

Scotland

  • 6.3. Ayrshire Employers' Mutual Insurance Association Ltd., Accident Registers and Compensation Records, 1910. PDF / MS Word
  • 6.4. Scottish Coal Workers’ Compensation Scheme, Fife Branch Accident Cases, 1912-1914. PDF / MS Word

South Wales

  • 6.5. Dowlais Iron Company Mineworkers’ Compensation Book, January 1901 to December 1903. PDF / MS Word
  • 6.6. Prince of Wales Colliery notices re. injuries and claims, 1923 to 1924. PDF / MS Word
  • 6.7. Mineworkers' Compensation Book for Lewis Merthyr Collieries, Compensation paid August to September, 1928. PDF / MS Word
  • 6.8. Lewis Merthyr Collieries, Commutation of Compensation Payments, 1929-1931. PDF / MS Word
  • 6.9. Agreements between injured Merthyr Tydfil district mineworkers and their employers for lump-sum compensation payable under the Workmen’s Compensation Acts, March to August 1937. PDF / MS Word