GB 0120 GC/200 - Chalke, Herbert Davies (1897-1979)

10 boxes

GB 0120 GC/200 1924-[1980] Collection (fonds) 10 boxes Chalke , Herbert Davies , 1897-1979 , Medical Officer of Health

Herbert Davies Chalke worked as a Medical Officer of Health (MOH) in North Wales, Dorset, Hampstead and Camberwell from 1930-1963, and was in charge of the 1933 investigation into tuberculosis in South Wales. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as Assistant Director of Medical Services to the Allied Forces in North Africa, and Senior Hygiene Officer, Italy. In 1945 returned to his job as MOH in Hampstead. After his retirement in 1963 he became involved in work on alcoholism, and was one of the founders and the first editor of The Bulletin of Alcoholism in 1963.

These papers were transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in June 1996 from the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, where they had been placed on permanent loan by Mrs Kathleen Chalke in 1979.

Papers of Herbert Davies Chalke, 1924-[1980] including lecture notes, papers and publications, including re alcoholism, TB, care of the elderly, and food safety. Also papers re service with RAMC in North Africa.

A Biographical Material

B Army and Wartime Material

C Teaching Files

D Publications

E Lecture Notes

F Tuberculosis

G Alcoholism

H Health Education Notebooks and Photograph Album

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

English

In the Wellcome Library: A paper by Chalke is held in the Western Manuscripts sequence as MS.1544. Papers relating to his wartime service are found in the muniments collection of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC/651).

Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Feb 2009 Psychiatry Psychopathology Mental diseases Substance-related disorders Health services Community health nursing Teaching methods Lectures (teaching method) Animal products Dairy products Ice cream Agricultural products Plant products Tobacco Military medicine World War One (1914-1918) Higher science education Medical education Pharmacology Drugs Biological products Vaccines Nursing Midwifery Physiology Nutrition Tuberculosis Government Public administration Health services administration Organization and administration Professional practice Wars (events) World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Malaria Disadvantaged groups Disabled persons Chemicals Organic chemicals Alcohols Alcohol Diseases Pathology Infectious diseases Venereal diseases Medical sciences Occupational medicine Health Health policy Epidemiology Tropical diseases Bacteriology Microbiology Vaccination Preventive medicine Systems of medicine Actinomycetales infections Gerontology Geriatrics Social work Pharmaceutical preparations Chalke , Herbert Davies , 1897-1979 , Medical Officer of Health Royal Army Medical Corps London England UK Western Europe Europe North Africa

These papers were transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in June 1996 from the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, where they had been placed on permanent loan by Mrs Kathleen Chalke in 1979.

Papers of Herbert Davies Chalke, 1924-[1980] including lecture notes, papers and publications, including re alcoholism, TB, care of the elderly, and food safety. Also papers re service with RAMC in North Africa.

A Biographical Material

B Army and Wartime Material

C Teaching Files

D Publications

E Lecture Notes

F Tuberculosis

G Alcoholism

H Health Education Notebooks and Photograph Album

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

• English

• Latin

English

In the Wellcome Library: A paper by Chalke is held in the Western Manuscripts sequence as MS.1544. Papers relating to his wartime service are found in the muniments collection of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC/651).

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English