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Surname
HEROD
Forename
John
Day
16
Month
07
Year
1904
Age
40
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Silverdale [Kents Lane]
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Silverdale Co. Ltd
Location
Silverdale
County
Staffordshire
Details of Event
Alleged that his head had been injured while going down the pit in the cage. He went home and called a doctor, who dressed a small wound on his head and gave him a certificate for the Permanent Relief Society that he was suffering from concussion. He had previously suffered with nervous debility and severe pains in the head He died on the 13th August. At the inquest there was no corroboration that the injury to the head was received in the cage although there were a number of others in the cage at the time. The medical evidence as to the cause of death was conflicting. One doctor attributed death to inflammation of the brain probably caused by injury, another doctor saw no signs of inflammation or other disease of the brain and said there was no evidence in the post-mortem examination to account for death and thought the man had died front epilepsy. The jury returned a verdict that death was due to an injury to the head but there was not sufficient evidence to show what caused the injury.