Local Appeal Tribunal case file for Charles Wallace Purdy, aged 43, Packer at Ormonde Date of birth: Marital status: Married Address: 15 Gladstone Street, Heanor Type of benefit claimed: Injury benefit Type of injury: Injury - spine Further information: Adjourned 16 February 1955 for more medical evidence. In January 1955 claimant described in Medical report thus: 'He has chronic Lumbas Scoliosis. Had rheumatic fever and has polyarthritis in all joints. […] I do not think his trivial back blows made it worse'. Orthopaedic report 11 May 1955 showed acute lumbo-sacral strain and a damaged intervertebral disc. 1955