John Healey Taylor’s “Invalid for Life” accident, in between 1891 and 1901

[rosie99]

The 1862 one has father Samuel occ Stone Mason

[heatherjulie]

In 1901, the John Taylor at 3 Lewis Street says invalid for life.

[TinaRoyal]

On page 254 of the Baptisms at St. John Church, Smallbridge, Rochdale, on 3rd November 1861 John Healey Taylor was baptised.  His mother was Elizabeth Healey, hence his middle name.  (John Healey Taylor was born in 1861, not 1862, a “slip of the pen”, sorry).

Heywood you are quite right, it might not have been an accident, that was an assumption made on my part.

I have searched the “Rochdale Observer” from 1891 to 1901, but I cannot find anything.  Having said that, Taylor is such a common name that I might have missed it.  The "Rochdale Observer" has no index.

[heywood]

It might have been an industrial disease as already mentioned or any debilitating illness really.

[Maiden Stone]

It might have been an industrial disease as already mentioned or any debilitating illness really.

TB for example.
District Medical Officers annual reports from 1890's onwards for my birth town, a few miles from Rochdale, are on a local history website. Each contains death statistics by cause and age followed by the officers comments. Rochdale Medical Officer would have written similar annual reports.
 
Accidents in mills and other workplaces were common. May only have been reported in a newspaper if it was a major accident with many injuries or if there was a fatality.   

[rosie99]

On page 254 of the Baptisms at St. John Church, Smallbridge, Rochdale, on 3rd November 1861 John Healey Taylor was baptised.  His mother was Elizabeth Healey, hence his middle name.  (John Healey Taylor was born in 1861, not 1862, a “slip of the pen”, sorry).

His birth registration
TAYLOR, JOHN       MMN HEALEY 
GRO Reference: 1861  June Quarter in ROCHDALE  Volume 08E  Page 32
 

[Maiden Stone]

Examples of diseases associated with cotton mills.
Byssinosis
Eye inflammation
Deafness
Tuberculosis
Cancer of the mouth
Cancer of the groin/scrotum (mule-spinner's cancer)

"A Factory Worker's Lot - Conditions in the Mill"  BBC Nation on Film
www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/topics/textiles/background_conditions.shtml
See the section "Fighting for breath".

*"Kissing the shuttle"  https://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Kissing_the_shuttle
Mentions byssinosis and TB. Assistant Medical Officer of Health & TB Officer for Preston reported in 1918 that weavers had a higher TB rate of any cotton operatives.

"Mule-spinners' cancer"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_spinners%27_cancer
First case of scrotal cancer in a cotton worker was identified in Manchester 1887. A high incidence of scrotal cancer was detected in former mule-spinners in 1900.
 
*Link not working. Search for terms kissing the shuttle or shuttle kissing.

[rosie99]

I have searched the papers too without finding anything.  I think that the answer may lie in the death certificate, as already mentioned it was probably something he had suffered from all of his life.

[Maiden Stone]

I agree with Rosie reply #16.