Merchant service. Return showing the number, ages, ratings, and causes of death of seamen reported to the Board of Trade during the year 1882, as having died in the British merchant service; together with particulars of special inquiries into causes of deaths at sea, held by or under the direction of the Registrar General of shipping and seamen, under section 269 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854 (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, no. 328, of session 1882) [electronic resource].