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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D1920/2/2/8/19
TitleMedical Appeal Tribunal case file for Ernest PIckering, aged 52, Coal face worker at Denby Drury-Lowe, relating to a Prescribed Industrial Disease
Date1951
DescriptionDate of birth: 30/05/1899
Marital status: Married
Address: 26 Dove Road, Ripley
Type of injury: Not applicable
Description of accident: Not applicable
Further information: Pickering wrote: 'I work on the roads now because I can't work on the face with my knee. I went in the hospital […] and was there a fortnight and 3 days, my temperature was 102 and […] when I saw my knee […] there was a big hole in it and a big tube through it [...] they took a bursa out and I had about 30 injections of Penicilan, the sister [...] told me mine was the worst case of bursitis they had seen'.
Extent1 file
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorNational Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire Area
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