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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
131 - Medical Appeal Tribunals Jan-Apr 1965 R-Z - 1965
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D1920/2/2/131/9
Title
Medical Appeal Tribunal case file for William Joseph Street, aged 49, Coal miner at Glapwell, relating to an Industrial Accident
Date
1965
Description
Date of birth: 01/06/1915
Marital status: Not given
Address: 4 Shaw Street, Holmewood, Chesterfield
Type of injury: Unconscious and eyebrow and nose injury with facial disfigurement
Description of accident: Altering timbering when a bar swung round and hit his head
Further information: No unforeseen aggravation. Further papers in 1967 include from the NUM Compensation Agent: 'He has had numerous periods of incapacity which he feels are attributable to the accident. He also appears to have developed a neurosis and complains of violent headaches'. A psychiatrist's letter states the miner was successfully treated for depression after he 'presented [...] with ideas of inadequacy and poverty [...] at least one distinguished expert in this problem of industrial and post-traumatic neurosis considers that most of them , if not all, are malingerers'.
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1 file
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File
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area
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