Chamber of Mines health and medical records

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	chamber of mines or recruiting records
Producer	Chamber of Mines / mine medical officers
Coverage	1960-1993
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	3
Living standards, health and social policy	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crush and James (1995a)	COM Annual Health Department Report 1992; Gold Field Mines Annual Medical Report 1980; TB incidence by mine group	1960-1992	Series on TB in-patient incidence among black miners.
Crush and James (1995b)	Chamber of Mines Annual Health Department report 1992 and mine TB in-patient series	1974-1992	Gives mine TB incidence trend (10,6/1 000 in-patients in 1992).
Harington et al. (1975)	Chamber of Mines / Crown Mines compound records and recruiting organisation (WNLA/NRC) medical data	1964-71	Source of case records, compound records and medical data compiled for analysis.
Harington et al. (1975)	Chamber of Mines of South Africa monthly health statistics / health returns from mine medical officers (case records 1964-71)	1964-71	Supplies the cancer case counts by site and home area, which are checked and screened for diagnostic proof.
Harington et al. (2004)	Chamber of Mines medical records	20th century	Mentioned as a firm basis for research on health and illness in miners; not directly analysed in this paper's labour-number argument.
McIntyre et al. (1995)	Chamber of Mines and other industry-based sources; mine hospital data	1992-1993	Industry health service provision, e.g. 53 mine hospitals with 6,898 beds.