| Description | Book labelled as Aberdeen Steam Fishermens Benevolent Society Minute Book No. 2.
Detailed minutes of the Society's meetings, including claims made to the Society for benefits funds by injured Members and bereaved families of deceased Members (both those deceased of natural and of accidental causes), the decisions made thereon by the committee, and the amounts paid to claimants.
Other features of interest: discussion of amendments to Society's rules; election of Committee roles; details of donations made to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary; accounts of accidents causing injury or death sometimes with eyewitness accounts or doctor's accounts/post-mortem notes included; cases of consumption, typhoid, pneumonia, and other diseases; details of correspondence between the Society and the Port of Hull Trawl Fishermens' Protective Society; some instances of payments going to permanently disabled fishermen to help them set up new means of earning their living; a newspaper cutting reporting the Society's Annual Meeting. |