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Excerpt from 42d Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Connecticut, 1894: To Which Are Added Statistical Tables Compiled From the Annual Returns of the Railroad Companies of the State for the Year Ending June 30, 1894 The most remarkable feature of the record, and one possibly not fully explained, is the relatively small number of employes reported injured compared with previous years. If the reduction had been on any one road alone we should have attributed it to a failure to report the injuries, but it was fairly proportioned among the several, except on the Philadelphia, Reading New England, where the falling off is extraordinary. Of the operating companies the Shepeng and the South Man chester report no accidents to employes, while of the other four those reported by the New London Northern were 45 per cent. Of the number last year, by the New York New England, 43 per cent., and by the New York, New Haven Hartford, 45 per cent.; but on the Philadelphia, Reading New England, only a little over 7 per cent. It should, however, be stated that the number of employes reported as injured on the Philadelphia, Reading New England last year was Only four less than the number so reported by its predecessor two years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.