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D1920 - National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area - 1867-2015
2 - Area Compensation Department - 1906-1997
1 - Local Appeal Tribunals - 1948-1985
12 - Local Appeal Tribunals 1961 A-J - 1961
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D1920/2/1/12/2
Title
Local Appeal Tribunal case file for Charles Frederick Askew, aged 56, Colliery worker at [colliery not stated]
Date
1961
Description
Date of birth:
Marital status: Married
Address: Not given, Not given
Type of benefit claimed: Sickness benefit
Type of injury: Injury - hand
Further information: From NUM handwritten notes: 'I suggest that a person's own Dr. should be in a better position to decide on the fitness or otherwise of his patient. Trapped his hand in a car door at Skegness where he had gone for convalescence'. In Askew's appeal letter: 'Thanks for the invitation to appeal to the Local Tribunal, against your decision to grant me one weeks pay. I dont appeal for money that is mine legally but deprived of by your decision, Tribunals are cut and dried affairs. [...] How nice to sit in judgement on others'. Medical certificates over a period of 4 months had covered: enteritis, post-influenzal depression, fibrositis, cystitis and rheumatism.
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Derbyshire Record Office
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National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area
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