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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D1920/2/2/37/4
TitleMedical Appeal Tribunal case file for Harry Barton, aged 54, Haulage hand at Swanwick, relating to a Prescribed Industrial Disease
Date1953
DescriptionDate of birth: 31/03/1911
Marital status: Not given
Address: 178 King Street, Alfreton
Type of injury: Not applicable
Description of accident: Not applicable
Further information: The Medical Board made a 2 per cent final disablement assessment for Miners' Nystagmus. The Tribunal found: 'The Claimant is suffering from congenital myopic astigmatism and a latent divergent squint, which are of constitutional origin […] This condition has been aggravated by his work as a miner'.
Extent1 file
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorNational Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area
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