ROYAL COMMISSION

REPORTS,

1842.

THE LEAD COUNTRY OF NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND CUMBERLAND


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THE LEAD COUNTRY OF NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND CUMBERLAND.

CONTENTS

I - OF THE AGES AND NUMBER.

II - HOURS OF WORK.

III - OF THE MEALS.

IV - NATURE OF EMPLOYMENT.

Of working the Mines.

Of Hushing.

Of washing the Lead Ore.

New Method of Washing Ore.

Of the Smelting Mills.

Of Roasting the Ore.

Of the Smelting Hearth.

Of the Smelting Furnace.

Of the Horizontal Chimneys.

Of refining the Lead and Silver.

Of the Separation of Lead and Silver.

Of the reducing Furnace.

Of reducing the Slag.

V - STATE OF THE PLACE OF WORK.

Of the Lodging Shops.

VI - OF ACCIDENTS.

VII - OF HOLIDAYS.

VIII - OF THE HIRING AND WAGES OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS EMPLOYED IN THE MINES.

Of the Hiring and Wages of Children and Young Persons employed in Washing the Lead Ore.

IX - OF THE TREATMENT AND CARE.

X - OF THE PHYSICAL CONDITION.

Duration of life of the Miners.

XI - OF THE MORAL CONDITION.

XII - OF THE COMPARATIVE CONDITION.

OF THE BORODALE MINE.

EVIDENCE COLLECTED BY DR. MITCHELL.

No.1 George Arnison.

No.2 Edward Routledge.

No.3. John Parmley.

No.4 Robert Walton Bainbridge.

No.5 John Robinson.

No.6 Jacob Crawhall.

No.7 William Walton.

No.8. Joseph Longstaff.

No.9. John Emerson.

No.l0 Joseph Fleming.

No.11 John Rain.

No.12 Stephen Collingwood

No.13. George Sanderson.

No.14. Whitfield Eddy.

No.15. Ralph Elliott.

No.16. Joseph Collingwood.

No.17. William Willis.

No.18. John Appleby.

No.19. Hall Robinson.

No.20. Joseph Collingwood.

No.21 Nicholas Hardy.

Nos.22 and 23. George Armstrong and Thomas Bell.

No.24. Joseph Walton.

No.25. Matthew Dowson.

No.26 Joseph Walton.

No.27 John White.

No.28. Robert Walton.

No.29. Levi Salkeld.

No.30. William Davidson.

No.31. William Salkeld.

No.32. John Robinson.

No.33. William Whitfield.

No.34. Thomas Davidson.

No.35. Robert Hetherton.

No.36. John Wallace.

The Sludge Separator.

No.37. John Walton.

No.38. William Eddy.

No.39. Joseph Eddy.

No.40. William Walton.

No.41. George Metcalf.

No.42. Thomas Dixon.