Sydney Walter Fisher, Dr.
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Biographical Notes
Fisher, Dr. Sydney Walter. Barrister-at-Law. Medical Inspector of Mines and Quarries to Mines Department. Educated at Port Talbot, Geneva, and Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1911, M.B. and Ch.B in 1915, and M.D. in 1923, his thesis for the last degree being on "Silicosis in the Mining Industry." Author, "Boils and Carbuncles Among Miners" (Lancet). Address: Mines Department, Dean Stanley Street, Millbank, S.W.1.
Source: 1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
H.M. Inspectors of Mines
Medical Inspector of Mines, Headquarters, Address: Mines Department, Dean Stanley Street, Millbank, London, S.W.1
Source: 1939 Colliery Manager's Pocket Book, published by The Colliery Guardian
Biographical Notes
Fisher, Dr. Sydney Walter. Barrister-at-Law. Medical Inspector of Mines and Quarries to Mines Department. Educated at Port Talbot Geneva, and Dublin, where he graduated BA. in 1911, M.B. and ????? in 1915, and M.D. in 1923, his thesis for the last degree being "Silicosis in the Mining Industry." Represented the Mines Department at the International Silicosis conference at Jo'burg in 1931 at Seventh International Congress of Accidents at Work and Occupa tional Diseases, Brussels, 1935, and Eighth International Congress Frankfort, 1938. Author, "Boils and Carbuncles Among Miners" (Lancet), " Silicosis in British Coal Mines " (Transactions of the Instituttion of Mining Engineers), "Medico-Legal Aspects of Coal-mining" (Medico-Legal Review, July, 1938). Address: Mines Department, Health and Safety Division, Mill House, 87-89, Shaftesbury Avenue, W. 1.
Source: 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
Biographical Notes
Fisher, Dr. Sydney Walter. Barrister-at-Law. H.M. Chief Mines Medical Officer. Educated at Port Talbot, Geneva, and Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1911, MB. and Ch.B. in 1915, and M.D. in 1923, his thesis for the last degree being on "Silicosis in the Mining Industry." Represented the Mines Department at the International Silicosis conference at Jo'burg in 1930, at Seventh International Congress of Accidents at Work and Occupational Diseases, Brussels, 1935, and Eighth International Congress, Frankfort, 1938. Author, "Boils and Carbuncles Among Miners" (Lancet), "Silicosis in British Coal Mines" (Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers), "Medico-Legal Aspects of Coal-mining" (Medico-Legal Review, July, 1938), "Health Hazards of Coal-Mining" (British Journal of Industrial Medicine, July, 1944). Address : Ministry of Fuel and Power, Mines Medical Service, King's Buildings, Dean Stanley Street, Milbank, S.W.1.
Source: 1945 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
Biographical Notes
Fisher, Dr. Sydney Walter. Barrister-at-Law. H.M. Chief Mines Medical Officer. Educated at Port Talbot, Geneva, and Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1911, M.B. and Ch.B. in 1915, and M.D. in 1923, his thesis for the last degree being on "Silicosis in the Mining Industry." Represented the Mines Department at the International Silicosis conference at Jo'burg in 1930, at Seventh International Congress of Accidents at Work and Occupational Diseases, Brussels, 1935, and Eighth International Congress, Frankfort, 1938. Author, "Boils and Carbuncles Among Miners" (Lancet), "Silicosis in British Coal Mines" (Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers), "MedicoLegal Aspects of Coal-Mining" (Medico-Legal Review. July, 1938), "Health Hazards of Coal-Mining" (British Journal of Industrial Medicine. July, 1944). Address: Ministry of Fuel and Power, Mines Medical Service, 2, Little Smith Street, Westminster, S.W.1.
Source: 1947 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
Biographical Notes
Fisher, Dr. Sydney Walter, D.I.H.(1949). Barrister-at-Law. H.M. Principal Medical Inspector of Mines. Educated at Port Talbot, Geneva, and Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1911, M.B. and Ch.B. in 1915, and M.D. in 1923, his thesis for the last degree b
Source: 1950 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
Biographical Notes
Fisher, Dr. S. W., M.A. Principal Medical Inspector of Mines until December 1950. Now appointed as Medical Consultant to the National Coal Board.
Source: 1955 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory
- 1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1939 Colliery Manager's Pocket Book, published by The Colliery Guardian
- 1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1945 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1947 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1950 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- 1955 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
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