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Catalogue description Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation: Rehabilitation Scheme: Registered Files (RD and R Series)
| Reference: | BX 7 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation: Rehabilitation Scheme: Registered Files (RD and R Series) |
| Description: |
Files relating to the management of rehabilitation centres and to their transfer to the National Health Service. |
| Date: | 1949-1989 |
| Related material: |
Other records relating to miners' rehabilitation are in BX 4 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | RD and R file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 7 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Miners Welfare Commission pioneered purpose built rehabilitation centres that were exclusively used for rehabilitating disabled mineworkers in order to minimise their absence from work. Upon the creation of the NHS the rehabilitation centres were, in England and Wales, conveyed to the state by individual conveyances, the Uddington rehabilitation centre being conveyed to the Secretary of State for Scotland |
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