| Fatal Accidents. | Non-Fatal Accidents. | |
| 1903 | 1,047 | 92,600 |
| 1908 | 1,042 | 121,112 |
The fatal accidents have remained stationary; the non-fatal accidents have curiously increased. The explanation is largely that the additional staff of inspectors has led to better reporting of accidents. Probably many still go unreported.
However, merely to take the list of "reported" accidents as it stands, we get the gruesome total of 1,042 persons killed and 121,000 wounded in factories and workshops in a single year.
A considerable number of the non-fatal accidents are of a serious character, as may be judged from the following details showing the cases reported to certifying surgeons as arising from the "special causes" already referred to:
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS: ACCIDENTS
REPORTED TO CERTIFYING SURGEONS, 1908
| Degree of Injury. | Number. |
| Fatal | 1,042 |
| Loss of hand or arm | 126 |
| Loss of part of hand | 3,303 |
| Loss of part of leg or foot | 78 |
| Fractures | 1,680 |
| Loss of sight | 44 |
| Injuries to head or face | 5,109 |
| Burns and scalds | 5,617 |
| Other injuries | 24,902 |
| 41,901 |
The number of reports to the Certifying Surgeons in 1903 was 30,509 ("Riches and Poverty," edition 1905, p. 117).
Having formed an idea, if an inadequate one, of the deaths, mutilations and injuries which occur in our factories and workshops in a single year, let us pass to the question of diseases of occupations. The particulars on page 129 are taken from the Factory Reports.
DISEASES OF OCCUPATIONS IN FACTORIES
AND WORKSHOPS
(Cases reported under the Factory and Workshop Act)