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D1920 - National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area - 1867-2015
- 2 - Area Compensation Department - 1906-1997
  - 2 - Medical Appeal Tribunals - 1948-1993
    - 37 - Medical Appeal Tribunals Jan-Apr 1955 A-H - 1955

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D1920/2/2/37/23
Title	Medical Appeal Tribunal case file for Thomas Foxall, aged 56, Ripper at Pilsley, relating to a Prescribed Industrial Disease
Date	1955
Description	Date of birth: 31/08/1898 Marital status: Married Address: Hall Gate Lane, Pilsey Type of injury: Not applicable Description of accident: Not applicable Further information: Letter dated 19 March 1955 to Mr Kitts NUM Area Compensation Agent from Mrs Florence Foxall: 'My husband was made an award by the medical board, which is now being objected to by the Insurance Tribunal. Being of a very nervous disposition these things always cause distress, and he would rather manage without. They have put on the Medical sheet, Injury to Left Face 1920, He was buried in the pit which caused this, and his nerves went to pieces, He was off work a considerable time with Neurasthenia [...] I had constantly to be in his presence [...] we had very little to live on and a family, [...] he had a brother and Uncle, killed in Pilsley Colliery. His father had a leg off in the mine.[...] The present award [...] is not a windfall. [...] And as a miners wive it is I that have to keep things going'. From Tribunal summary: 'The claimant has a chronic bursal thickening in front of his tibial tuberosity containing melon seed bodies. This may be a sequela of beat knee'
Extent	1 file
Level	File
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area

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