Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1882 — STEAMBOAT INSPECTION. [ARTICLE]

STEAMBOAT INSPECTION.

Gen, Drupont’6 Rep-.>;rt pf the Operation of His Bureau. Supervising Inspector General Dumont, in his annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30 last, giv s the following statistics of to?.steamboat inspection service: Number of vessels inspected, 5,117; tonnage of same 1,298,564; officers licensed, 20,467, s owing an increase 6ver the previous year in tie number of 561,.and the number of licensed officers, 2,669. The total receipts from all sources during toei ynr w.re $279,8§9.30; total expenditure 1 , #227,615.63; ’receipts over expenditures, $52,273 67. The total number of accidents to steam vessels, during th • year, resulting in less or life, were fortv-dnf>. Lives lost from accidents to steam vessels 205, of which but fifty-six we:e lives of passengers.' Total persons car . ied during the year, 354 - 070,447. Tais number divided by 2e5, the number of lives 1 st, shows one life lost to each 1,727,172 per ons carried, as against one life lo t tn each 55,714 persons carried in the fifty-ope years previous to the enactment of the first efficient steamboat lawk In the year last-named ther were 39,()Q0,000 p .ssenger, carried, and 700 1 ve*lost.