| Description | 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: reports of scarlet fever, pneumonia, sepsis, hernias; discussion of collaboration between the Society and the Seaman's National Insurance Society; a 1913 mention of a skiagram (x-ray) being taken at the Royal Infirmary to detect a factured leg; commencement of the First World War and mention of Society members who had enlisted; discussion of additional provisions for those members on War Service; a claim by mother of Francis Dunbar killed when his ship HM Trawler Crathie hit a mine; other claims made regarding servicemen killed in action. |