Excerpt from Accounts and Papers, Vol. 21 of 41: Railways (Accidents), Session 5 December-15 August 1879, Vol. LXIIIt will, however, be useful to compare the numbers killed and injured during the year 1878 with those of the previous year 1877.By accidents to trains, rolling stock, permanent way, (31h, 24 passengers and 15 servants were killed, and passengers and l56 servants were injured. There was, during the year 1878 as compared with the year 1877, an increase in the number of passengers killed of 13, and in the number injured of 509, and there was a decrease in the number of servants killed of 7, and an increase in the number injured of 2.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.