The General Report on Railway Accidents in the United Kingdom
for the year 1907 has been published as a Blue- book. In all 1,117 persons were killed and 8,811 injured by accidents due to the running of trains or the movement of railway vehicles, as against the average for the previous ten years of 1,160 and 6,765 respectively. The outstanding feature of the Report is the great increase in non-fatal injuries, which has mainly occurred in the cases of accidents to railway servants. This state of affairs is, however, in great measure due to the more regular reporting of non-fatal accidents to railway servants enforced by the Order of the Board of Trade of December, 1906, in which a more com- prehensive definition of disablement has been adopted. It is also noted that the number of railway servants has increased by 40,000 between 1904 and 1907, and that a considerable number of accidents occurring in goods-sheds and warehouses previously returned as factory accidents have been included in the Board of Trade Returns for the past year.
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