ROYAL COMMISSION REPORTS, 1842.

South Durham.

 REPORT by JAMES MITCHELL, ESQ., LL.D., on the Employment of Children and Young Persons in the MINES of the SOUTH DURHAM COAL-FIELD, between the Weare and the Tees; and on the State, Condition, and Treatment of such Children and Young Persons.

Approx 55 A4 pages. 

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THE ROYAL COMMISION REPORTS on CHILDREN in THE MINES, 1842

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CONTENTS

 

MODE OF VENTILATING AND WORKING THE COAL MINES.

DIAGRAM

PLAN

I. - OF THE AGES AND NUMBERS OF THE CHILDREN.

II. OF THE HOURS OF WORKING.

III. - OF MEALS.

IV - OF THE NATURE OF THE EMPLOYMENT.

Of the Coal Viewers.

Of the Under Viewers.

Of the Overmen.

Of the Deputy Overmen.

Of the Trappers.

Of the Drivers.

Of the Helpers-up.

Leaders of Water and Wood.

Stone-leaders.

Of the Cranesmen.

Of the Accountants.

Of the Putters.

Of the Hewers.

V - STATE OF THE PLACE OF WORK.

HABITATIONS OF THE COLLIERS.

VI - OF ACCIDENTS.

VII - OF HOLIDAYS.

VIII - OF THE HIRING AND WAGES.

XI - OF THE MORAL CONDITION.

XII - OF THE COMPARATIVE CONDITION.

OF APPRENTICES.

OF SCREENING THE COALS

EVIDENCE COLLECTED BY DR. MITCHELL, SOUTH DURHAM COAL FIELD.

No.88 - Thomas Crawford, Jun.

No.89 - Edward Potter.

No.90 - John Wood.

No.91 - Thomas Alexander Cockin.

No.92 - An Eminent Engineer.

No.93 - Gilbert Steel.

No.94 - Mountjoy Pearse.

No.95 - George Chariton.

No.96 - John Wetherell Hays.

No.97 - George Canney.

No.98 - George Bland.

No.99 - George Tweddell.

No.100 - James Vicars.

No.101 - Anthony Dowson, in presence of his father, William Dowson.

No.102 - Benjamin Dowson.

No.103 - John Dowson.

No.104 - Thomas Hoggins.

No.105 - Thomas Hoggins, jun.

No.106 - Thomas Thew.

No.107 - -Joseph Dawson.

No. 108 - George Green.

No.109 - John Green.

No.110 - William Hardy.

No. 111 - William Laws.

No.112 - Thomas Lawton.

No.113 - Joseph Barber.

No.114 - Robert Storey.

No.115 - William Willis.

No.116 - John Otterson.

Weekly expenses of a miner, his wife, and two children of one and three years

of age, as given by the miner himself.

SUNDERLAND.

Weekly expenses of a miner with a wife and two children, with 20s. a-week wages, as given by the mister himself

BISHOP AUCKLAND.

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