Catalogue description Home Office and Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Workmens' Compensation, Correspondence and Papers

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Reference: PIN 12
Title: Home Office and Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Workmens' Compensation, Correspondence and Papers
Description:

This series contains files of correspondence of the Home Office, the Ministry of National Insurance and the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance relating to various workmen's compensation schemes, industrial diseases and injuries, appointment and fees of medical referees, and reports on various industries.

Included in this series are papers relating to the Silicosis Medical Board, the Royal Commission on Workmen's Compensation, 1938 to 1944, the Alternative Remedies (Contributory Negligence) Committee, 1944 to 1945, and various committees on workmen's compensation (including the 1936 Stewart Committee) and related subjects.

Date: 1900-1979
Related material:

Other Home Office correspondence on workmen's compensation is in HO 157

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Home Office, 1782-

Ministry of National Insurance, 1944-1953

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966

Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968

Physical description: 148 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Accruals: Series is not accruing.

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