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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D1920/2/2/21/14
Title
Medical Appeal Tribunal case file for Francis V Booker, aged 46, Miner at Grassmoor, relating to an Industrial Accident
Date
1953
Description
Date of birth: 07/12/1906
Marital status: Not given
Address: 19 Vernon Rise, Grassmoor
Type of injury: Injury - head
Description of accident: Struck on back of head by steel prop
Further information: In first medical report: 'difficult to examine […] uncooperative patient'; from second: 'Dramatic responses […] jumps violently […] on all attempts to touch him Violently jerks head away'. Psychiatric report February 1953: 'there is some insidious cerebral degeneration beginning - wife stating that he has become rather changed and childish in the last 12 months.[...] he suffers from Post traumatic Neurosis (Hysterical in type) [...] attributable to the accident [...] Not wholly caused by accident in that previous personality poor'.
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1 file
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Derbyshire Record Office
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National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area
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