Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1881 — Aecidents in the United Kingdom [ARTICLE]

Aecidents in the United Kingdom

Liverj«f**l Courier. Peace society lecturers like to dwell on tbe loss of life caused by war, yet they often forget that this loss is often not nearly so great as the mortality from accident*. The railway returns of lasi ytar showed that from the Ist of January to the 31st of December, 1880, no fewer than 1,136 passeDgci.*, railway servants and others were killed, aud 3,958 injured on the various lines of railway in the United Kingdom. In addition, the railway companies returned 45 persons as killed and 2,773 injured by accidents which occurred on their premises, but with which the movement of vehicles on the rails was i not Concerned. The number of persons drowned in the lakes, rivers and canals of the kingdom was 2,815 in England and Wales, 549 in Scotland and 826 in Ireland, so that in one year there were no fewer than 3,690 livee lost by drowning in the United Kingdom. During the several South African and the Afghan campaigns the number of officers; hon-commissioned officers and men who were killed or who died from their ‘ wounds was 5.200, while the nuuiber of wouuded shown in* the army returns was 2,718* Leaving out therefore, the cases of drowning, It appears Dot only that the number killed by wounds was greater in the war mentioned than of those killed on railways, but also that the number injured and requiring surgical aid was more than three times greater on the various lines of railway and their premises in the United Kindom in one year that it* was during ail the period those campaigns lasted.