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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D1920/2/2/9/24 |
| Title | Medical Appeal Tribunal case file for John Colin Tankard, aged 45, Ripper at Westthorpe, relating to an Industrial Accident |
| Date | 1951 |
| Description | Date of birth: 01/03/1906
Marital status: Married
Address: 71 Duke Street, Mosborough
Type of injury: Injury - head
Description of accident: Line of stone fell and hit claimant on the head
Further information: Claim for Constant Attendance Allowance. Undated Extract from Hospital Notes (boxed in red and regarded as possibly detrimental to claimant) said: 'This patient is attending the Psychiatric Out-Patient Dept., of the Royal Hospital, Sheffield. He is suffering from a major attack of epilepsy assumed to be post-traumatic in origin having followed upon a head injury. The fits occur once or twice weekly and in addition he has some superimposed neurotic complaints. He under treatments with phenobarbitone and epanutin but it is very difficult to control his fits entirely. He is at present unfit for work'. |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Level | File |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
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| Archive Creator | National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area |