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We shall therefore shortly learn if they 
fulfil the conditions required for driving levels, or for sinking shafts. 
The Reports of the Colliery Inspectors have been published. 
These tell a melancholy tale of the loss of life in Mining for coal, 
the numbers being largely increased during last year by the terrific 
casualties at the Oaks Colliery, in South Yorkshire, and at Talk 
o’ th’ Hill, in North Staffordshire. 
The returns of deaths are as follows :— 
1. Separate Tons of Coal 
ite AY No. of | Male P i : ¢ 
Inspection Districts. Collizries. aineiay ok: Fiero Lives Lost. ee ess as 
1. Northumberland . 
North Durham 160 25,647 91 99 | 108,725 
Cumberland 
2. South Durham . . 155 35,720 84 115 | 129,826 
3. North and East Lan- 
mans = 265 25,440 58 69 98,173 
4. West Lancashire . A - 
ear Pi 180 | 30,000 | 105 | 150 | 55,666 
5. Yorkshire 434 35,500 61 425 22,285 
6. Derbyshire . 
Nottinghamshire . . 
Toes 196 27,100 55 58 | 131,034 
Warwickshire . 
7. North ag 
Cheshire . 220 20,210 47 181 30,387 
Shropshire . . 
8. South Staffordshire 
soe lal it | 544 | 27,000 96 109 | 94,495 
9. Monmouthshire : 
Gloucester . 228 26,000 75 81 74,074 
Somerset, &c. 
10. South Wales 338 29,200 113 120 78,137 
11. East Seotland . 254 21,200 29 32 | 190,625 
12. West Scotland . 218 20,046 43 45 | 131,880 
Total . - «| -3,192 323,063 857 1,484 
And averages . a ie a ne 67,877 Tons 
Total of Lives lost from different causes. 
1865. 1866. 
Explosions of Fire vane : 168 651 
Falls in Mine 5 381 361 
Tn Shafts. Sher SEG: 162 
Miscellaneous undengt ound rag ES) 203 
On Surface . =e ree 107 
984 1,484 
Increase of deaths in 1866 500 
On the 9th of November a terrible explosion occurred at the 
Ferndale Colliery, in the Rhondda Vach, Glamorganshire, by which 
