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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-
