Jamie,
You might find the following useful:-
Begenal, T.B. "Mortality rate estimates of Gunnerside lead miners from the
censuses", British Mining No.59, 1997, pp.79-88.
Harris, F. "Mortality in Cornwall", British Mining No.61, 1998, pp.39-41
Williams, C.J. "Accidents in the Flintshire and Denbighshire Lead Mines 1873-
1914", British Mining No.57, 1996, pp.92-105
Williams, R.A. "The High Mortality of British Metal and Slate Miners and
Beliefs about Causes 1556-1904", British Mining No.34, 1987, pp.18-33
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Mike Gill
President and Recorder of the NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY
Britain's foremost mining history society at:-
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~RBurt/MinHistNet/NMRS.html
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