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89.
Colonel Clarke
asked the Minister of Labour the numbers of workers employed during each of the years 1949 to 1952 in coal mining, agriculture, transport and the merchant marine; and how many fatal accidents, expressed as a percentage
| ESTIMATED NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES IN THE UNDERMENTIONED COUNTIES AT END-MAY, 1953 | |||||||
| Industry | Orkney Islands | Shetland Islands | Counties of Caithness, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Inverness and Argyll* | ||||
| Males | Females | Males | Females | Males | Females | ||
| Agriculture and horticulture | … | 430 | 130 | 170 | 30 | 6,660 | 670 |
| Forestry | … | — | — | — | — | 2,320 | 240 |
| Fishing | … | 10 | — | 450 | — | 1,540 | 10 |
| Non-Ferrous metals, smelting, rolling. etc | … | — | — | — | — | 1,340 | 220 |
| Woollen and worsted | … | 10 | — | 70 | 30 | 670 | 380 |
| Building | … | 340 | 10 | 390 | 10 | 4,930 | 170 |
| Civil engineering contracting | … | 130 | — | 580 | 10 | 6,880 | 150 |
| Distributive trades | … | 370 | 270 | 450 | 310 | 3,190 | 3,600 |
| Professional services | … | 120 | 330 | 110 | 380 | 1,960 | 4,240 |
| Catering, hotels, etc | … | 30 | 80 | 30 | 130 | 1,420 | 3,920 |
| All other industries and services | … | 1,400 | 130 | 1,420 | 570 | 19,220 | 6,790 |
| Total all industries and services | … | 2,840 | 950 | 3,670 | 1,470 | 50,130 | 20,390 |
| *Owing to the fact that the boundaries of employment exchange areas do not coincide with county boundaries it is not possible to provide separate figures for each of these counties. | |||||||