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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D1920/2/2/2/34 |
| Title | Medical Appeal Tribunal case file for Frank Hinds, aged 54, Miner - packing at Shipley, relating to a Prescribed Industrial Disease |
| Date | 1950 |
| Description | Date of birth: 02/12/1896
Marital status: Not given
Address: 26 Bloomsgrove Road, Ilkeston
Type of injury: Not applicable
Description of accident: Not applicable
Further information: The extent of the disablement for Beat knee was assessed at 2 per cent for life. The grounds of appeal are earnings - related 'I have to go to work on Saturdays and Sundays to make wages anythink [sic] like as Odd worker. My wages for 5 days I 6.3.0 and when I go Saturdays and Sundays is 8. 8. 4. 0. A packer wage is £11. 0. to £12. 0,0. for 5 days.' On 19 October 1950 the Appeal board did not find that the inability to kneel was related to the prescribed disease. 'There is no evidence at the moment of chronic or acute bursitis [...] His present trouble is a well marked arthritis [...] which we do not think has been affected by the relevant disease'. |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Level | File |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area |