FOR THE QUARTER END

cent of the total quantity of coal raised dut Boards instituted by the National Wages Agreements, decisions of the National Board for the Coal Indand to the definition of the items of cost and proceeds, except

= 1924, are included in the item "Wages," and of the cost of producing the coal disposed of commercially.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION

Statistics of
Compensation and of Proceedings

Under The Workmen's Compensation Acts,
1906 and 1923, and
The Employers' Liability Act, 1880,

During the year

1925

Presented to Parliament by Command
of His Majesty

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INTRODUCTORY LETTER

CONTENTS.

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3

PART I Statistics of Compensation Paid in certain

Industries.

19

TABLE 2.-Payments for Compensation in Cases of Accident ..

TABLE 3.-Payments for Compensation in Cases of Industrial

Disease

20

TABLE 4.-Duration of Compensation (exclusive of cases ter-

minated by payment of a lump sum)

21

TABLE 6. Cases of Industrial Disease classified according to

Employment..

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PART II.-General Statistics as to Administration

of the Acts.

TABLE 7.-Number and Nature of Legal Proceedings under

the Workmen's Compensation Acts and Employers'

Liability Act ..

TABLE 8.-Applications for Arbitration and Amounts of

Compensation Awarded under the Workmen's

Compensation Acts ..

26

.. 27

TABLE 9.-Memoranda Registered and Amounts of Compen-

sation Agreed under the Workmen's Compensation

Acts

TABLE 10.--Actions and Amount of Damages awarded under

the Employers' Liability Act

28

29

30

TABLE 11.-Appeals under the Workmen's Compensation Acts

and the Employers' Liability Act ..

TABLE 12-Certificates of Disablement, &c., given by Certifying

and Appointed Surgeons-

(a) Nature of Certificates.

(b) Employments of Workmen

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM JOYNSON-HICKS, BART., M.P., HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF

Sir,

STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT

I have the honour to present herewith Statistics of Compensation and of Proceedings during the year 1925 under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1906 and 1923, and the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, which have been collected and tabulated in the Statistical Branch of the Home Office. Annual statistics have been published from 1908 onwards, excepting the four years 1915 to 1918, during which they had to be suspended on account of the war. The present statistics follow the abbreviated form. adopted in 1914 and subsequent years.

The volume contains:

I. Statistics as to compensation paid during 1925 under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1906 and 1923, in the seven great groups of industries in which returns are called for from employers under Section 12 of the Act of 1906, viz. :—mines, quarries, railways, factories, docks, constructional work and shipping. These groups embrace a large proportion of the chief industries, but it has to be borne in mind that they do not by any means cover the whole field. Besides the various commercial, clerical and domestic employments to which the Act applies, there are several important industries which are not covered by the returns, for example, building, road transport, and agriculture.

II. General statistics for 1925 in regard to the administration of the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1906 and 1923, together with particulars relating to the Employers' Liability Act, 1880.

It should be noted that cases arising in Ireland, which were included in the Statistics for 1921 and previous years, are not included in the Statistics for 1922 to 1925, the power to collect statistics of such cases being now vested in the Governments of Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. In the comparative tables, which are given below in connection with Part I of the Statistics, it has not been possible to separate and exclude the Irish cases from the figures for the years previous to 1922, and this must of course affect, though not, it is considered, to any serious extent, the comparison of the figures for 1922 to 1925 with those of previous years