Excerpt from Stannary Band of Hope Monthly Visitor: October, 1869 September, 1872<br><br>Mr. Higson, the Government inspector, made a remarkable statement in the course of the coroner's inquiry into the Haydock calamity. He said he believed that half the explosions in Lancashire had taken place through men getting drunk over-night, and being afterwards unequal to their work.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.