GB 0120 GC/209 - Cholera Research Laboratory, Dacca

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GB 0120 GC/209

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Cholera Research Laboratory, Dacca

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  • 1945-1983 (Produção)

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2 boxes

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The Cholera Advisory Committee, headed by Dr Joseph Smadel, Associate Director of the NIH, was established to aid in developing a cholera research project in nations of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) as a result of the epidemic of cholera in Thailand in 1958. Initially the plan was to set up a research programme in Bangkok for a year, then arrangements would be made to establish a permanent SEATO research laboratory in Dacca, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The laboratory in Bangkok was funded by both the Thai and US governments, and in the event continued until 1970 when it was replaced by a US Army Medical Research Laboratory. This was completely separate from the Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory (PSCRL). The PSCRL remained functioning throughout the war for indepedence in Bangladesh, although most of the US staff were evacuated. The CRL (Pakistan-SEATO was dropped) existed with no status and funding was affected. Negotions with the Governement of Bangladesh could only begin after the US had recognised the Government's independence. In 1978 the CRL became the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Research.

For fuller details of the background and the history of the project, see section E.

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GB 0120 GC/209 1945-1983 Collection (fonds) 2 boxes Cholera Research Laboratory , Dacca

The Cholera Advisory Committee, headed by Dr Joseph Smadel, Associate Director of the NIH, was established to aid in developing a cholera research project in nations of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) as a result of the epidemic of cholera in Thailand in 1958. Initially the plan was to set up a research programme in Bangkok for a year, then arrangements would be made to establish a permanent SEATO research laboratory in Dacca, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The laboratory in Bangkok was funded by both the Thai and US governments, and in the event continued until 1970 when it was replaced by a US Army Medical Research Laboratory. This was completely separate from the Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory (PSCRL). The PSCRL remained functioning throughout the war for indepedence in Bangladesh, although most of the US staff were evacuated. The CRL (Pakistan-SEATO was dropped) existed with no status and funding was affected. Negotions with the Governement of Bangladesh could only begin after the US had recognised the Government's independence. In 1978 the CRL became the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Research.

For fuller details of the background and the history of the project, see section E.

These papers were transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in July 1996 from the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, to which they had been given by John Peel of the National Institutes of Health, USA, in 1982.

Records of the Cholera Research Laboratory, Dacca, 1945-1983, including annual reports; minutes; correspondence; memoranda, reports, proposals and plans; articles; papers relating to successor organisation, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Research, established 1978.

A. Annual Reports

B. Meetings

C. Correspondence

D. Memoranda

E. Reports, Proposals and Plans

F. Cholera Toxin Research

G. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Research, Bangladesh

H. Published Material

J. Miscellaneous

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

Other related collections are: PP/ROG (Sir Leonard Rogers); PP/VAN (William Edward van Heyningen) - Van Heyningen was associated with this Laboratory.

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 Gastroenterology Tropical diseases Infectious diseases Health Health policy Pathology Diseases Cholera Organizations International agencies Internal medicine Specialties, medical Medical sciences Cholera Research Laboratory Bangladesh South Asia

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These papers were transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in July 1996 from the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, to which they had been given by John Peel of the National Institutes of Health, USA, in 1982.

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Records of the Cholera Research Laboratory, Dacca, 1945-1983, including annual reports; minutes; correspondence; memoranda, reports, proposals and plans; articles; papers relating to successor organisation, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Research, established 1978.

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A. Annual Reports

B. Meetings

C. Correspondence

D. Memoranda

E. Reports, Proposals and Plans

F. Cholera Toxin Research

G. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Research, Bangladesh

H. Published Material

J. Miscellaneous

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

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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.

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  • inglês

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  • latim

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English

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Other related collections are: PP/ROG (Sir Leonard Rogers); PP/VAN (William Edward van Heyningen) - Van Heyningen was associated with this Laboratory.

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Wellcome Library

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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.

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