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Correspondence, reports and minutes generated by Royal College of General Pracitioners Research Units: A RE A Birmingham Research Unit; A RE B Scottish General Practitioner Research Support Unit; A RE C Manchester Research Unit.

Minutes of the Board, 1887-1965; minutes of Finance Committee, 1916-1965; minutes of Works Committee, 1950-1965; letter books, 1909-1964; wages account books, 1893-1965; register of tenders and contracts, 1951-1954; visitors books for the Kew Sewage Works, 1891-1961; press cuttings albums, 1886-1963; booklet "The Richmond Main Sewerage Board - The Main Drainage of the District" by W. Fairley, 1926; three maps showing layout of main sewers, 1888; photographs including Colonel J.L.G. Powell, Clerk to the Board, 1887-1909; Mr Stampa W. Lambert, Chairman of the Board, 1909-1921; Lieutenant Colonel W Merrick, Member of the Board, 1909-1912 and Clerk to the Board, 1925; laying of memorial stone at the Works, 6 October 1890; group photograph taken at an Inspection of the Works, 30 July 1924 and photographs of new oil engine, 1930.

Memoir of TW Roberts, as office assistant, Magistrate and District Judge in Matara, Kurunegala, and Chilaw, Ceylon, 1902-1916; containing an account of the daily routine, comments on public health, comments on relations with village headmen and Mudaliyars (Chief Headmen), notes on the administration of Crown land and on the administration of justice.

Papers of Sir Ronald Ross, c1880-1928, including correspondence, manuscripts, reprints and newspaper cuttings collected by Ross. Includes information on the major campaigns for the control of malaria, closely documenting his own work through his notebooks, diagrams and thousands of letters from medical scientists, principally with Sir Patrick Manson in regard to Ross's research into malaria in India, and including correspondence with Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (Heinrich Hermann) Robert Koch, (Charles Louis) Alphonse Laveran; correspondence relevant to the early discoveries in trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis; records of malaria researches during the World War One, and during his work at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 1902-1918; papers and correspondence relating to Ross' efforts to improve the pay of research workers and the improvement of sanitation in the colonies, including letters from political figures such as James Ramsay MacDonald, (William) Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, John Edward Bernard Seely and Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain; correspondence relating to publications by Ross; papers relating to Ross' work at the War Office, and his visit to South East Asia and India in 1926-1927, including photographs, medals, diplomas and copies of his literary works; papers relating to Ross' literary interests, including correspondence from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Herbert George (H G) Wells and (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling; photographs and biographical information on Ross, including family correspondence containg letters from his two younger brothers discussing their work and careers, and a few letters from other relatives, primarily connected with researches into his family background for his autobiography.

Administrative records; records of the Cardiac Department; records of Chaplain's Department; records of the Neurophysiology Department [a.k.a. E.E.G. Department]; title deeds, leases, trusts etc; records of the Dermatology Department; financial records; records of the Department of General Medicine; records of the London Linden Hall Association; patient records; records of the Department of Medical Photography; Medical Unit records; nursing records; records of the Nutrition and Dietetics department; nursing education records; records of the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry; records of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department; records of Orthopaedics Department; Occupational Therapy Department; photographs; records of the Pharmacy Department; records of the Public Relations Department; records of the London Hospital Photographic Society; records of the Radiotherapy Department; records of the Radiology Department; surveyors and estate records; records of the Social Society; records of the Works Department; records from unofficial sources, and persons and subject files.

Manuscript diaries of Melvill Keverne Trelawny Sandys as Assistant Government Agent in Mullaittivu (1922-1923) and Mannar, (1931-1933), Ceylon; subjects include visits to villages, court cases, land sales, settlement of disputes, public health, inspection of salvage operations after cyclone and tidal wave.

Papers of Emily Virginia Saunders-Jacobs including correspondence, reports, circulars and other papers as Medical Officer in South London, 1920-1960s.

Holograph manuscripts of publications by Joseph von Schneller, notes, and some material by other persons collected by von Schneller, 1837-1885.

Presidents' correspondence and copy papers, and final report of the RCOG working party on screening for neural tube defects, 1977-1981.

Miscellanea, or scraps and correspondence relating to 'Old London', as represented at the International Health Exhibition in 1884, arranged by George Shaw.

Letters to John Simon, from Joseph Henry Green, [1850]; and letter from E Headlam Greenhow (1814-1888), Apr 1866 relating to a 1849 report on cholera.

Correspondence and papers of Sir William John Ritchie Simpson including miscellaneous correspondence, newscuttings and papers, including photographs and papers relating to Simpson's service with the Anglo-Serbian Military Red Cross in 1917; photographs and papers relating to Simpson's investigation of sanitary conditions in the mines of Northern Rhodesia with a typewritten copy of his 'Report on the conditions of hygiene at the Roan Antelope, Chambishi, and Mufulira mines'; obituaries of Simpson; address to Simpson on leaving his post as Health Officer of Calcutta with signatures of members of the medical profession and officers of the Calcutta Corporation and diplomas, comprising Simpson's appointments as surgeon in the Volunteer Forces of India, signed by H C K Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, as Viceroy, 27 April 1892; FRCP 11 May 1899; Serbian Relief Fund diploma 30 May 1926.

Papers of The Society of Medical Officers of Health, 1856-1998, comprising the constitution, 1892-1993; council records, 1856-1997; records of the general purpose committee, 1937-1981; records of the standing and temporary committees, and working parties and joint meetings, 1892-1996; general meeting records, 1856-1997; attendance books, 1872-1965; financial records, 1892-1996; members lists, 1895-1997; publications and official publicity, 1856-1997; historical material, 1866-1908; comments and evidence c 1879-1998; miscellaneous files, c 1879-1998; records of special interest groups, 1920-1997; papers, minutes and publications relating to the Society's Faculty of Community Health, 1988-1998; public health literature and sources, 1902-1997; files relating to the journal The Medical Officer, 1897-1973; non-Society records documenting public health measures, policies and issues in the first half of the 20th century; and minutes, files, transcripts of papers, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera relating to the regional Branches and Groups of the Society, 1875-1997.

Papers of the Edmonton Local Board of Health relating to a legal case at Queen's Bench, 1871; papers of Southgate Local Board of Health relating to the Edmonton Local Board (Division of District) Bill, 1881-1890; and various deeds, leases, assignments, conveyances, mortgages and other property documents for the Southgate area, 1800-1960.

Records listed include minutes, correspondence, papers and published reports, 1942-1996. Not all working parties and special committees will be found in this series; where special working parties etc were set up under the auspices of particular committees of the College or as joint ventures with other bodies they were as a rule allocated separate series numbers (see below under related material). For details refer to individual series descriptions, which are arranged as follows:
M1: Macafee ad hoc committee on training for the specialty and matters related thereto, 1962-1967.
M2: Working party on intimate examinations, 1996-1997.
M3: 'Early discharge' survey, 1962-1963.
M4: Working party to consider the Platt Report, 'A Reform of Nursing Education', 1965.
M5: Caesarean section survey, 1967-1968.
M6: Working group in reproductive health/community gynaecology, 1991-1993.
M7: Working party on unplanned pregnancy, 1969-1971.
M8: Sub-committee considering the College's future attitude to contraception, 1977-1978.
M9: Working party to consider effective representation within the College, 1995-1996.
M10: Working party on screening for neural tube defects, 1977-1979.
M11: Working party on overseas affairs, 1994-1995.
M12: Working party on further specialisation within obstetrics and gynaecology, 1980-1982.
M13: Working party on termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality, 1995-1996.
M15: Working party on evidence to the Royal Commission on the National Health Service, 1976-1977.
M16: Working party on stillbirth and neonatal death, 1978-1986.
M17: Sub-specialisation advisory group, 1980-1984.
M19: Working party on minimum standards of care in labour, 1993-1994.
M21: Working party on gynaecological laparoscopy and confidential enquiry into laparoscopy, 1977-1982.
M24: Maternity services and obstetric services committee, 1951-1957.
M25: Maternity unit planning committee, 1959-1960. M26: Sub-committee to consider 'A Hospital Plan for England and Wales', 1962.
M27: General practitioner maternity unit committee, 1961-1962.
M28: Maternity hospital planning sub-committee, 1969-1971.
M29: Ad hoc committee on staffing structure of departments of obstetrics and gynaecology, 1971-1973.
M30: Working party on medical gynaecology, 1982-1984.
M31: Working party on manpower redistribution in training grades, 1978-1980.
M32: Manpower advisory sub-committee, 1980-1983.
M33: Working party on antenatal and intrapartum care, 1979-1983.
M34: Working party on the role of women doctors in obstetrics and gynaecology, 1984-1987.
M35: Committee on human fertility and questionnaire sub-committee, 1944-1949.
M36: Sub-committee on the gynaecological aspects of the health of women war workers, 1942.
M37: Nutrition committee 1944-1947.
M38: Response to the report of the Ministry of Health and Scottish Home and Health Department working party on ambulance training and equipment, 1966-1967.
M39: RCOG and Simon Trust report on the sterilisation of women, 1967-1969.
M40: Working party on unplanned pregnancy, 1989-1991.
M41: Hospital visiting working party, 1993.
M42: Working party on continuing medical education (formerly working party on continuing specialist education), 1988-1992.
M43: LOGIC working party (formerly PROLOGIC working party), 1984-1988.
M44: Obstetric flying squads survey, 1980-1987.
M45: Working party on guidelines for private practice in obstetrics and Gynaecology in the UK, 1986-1990.
M46: Response to the House of Commons Health Committee enquiry into maternity services, 1991-1992.
M47: Submission to the London Implementation Group, following the Tomlinson Report, 1992-1993.
M48: Independent committee of inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the publication of two articles in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in August, 1994-1995.
M49: Medical curriculum sub-committee, 1954-1955.
M50: Futures working party, 1898-1992; M51: MRCOG working party, 1991.
M52: Working party on structured training, 1993.
M53: Working party to audit structured training, 1999-2000.
M54: DRCOG working party, 1993.
M55: Working party on ultrasound screening for fetal abnormalities, 1995-2000.

Papers of Sir Ambrose Thomas Stanton, 1905-1909, comprising original tables, statistics, etc. relating to researches into the etiology of Beri-beri, and its connection with a rice diet. Author's holograph MSS. Vols. II and IV are indexes to Vol. I and Vol. III respectively. Vol. V contains case-papers from the Hospital at Jelebu, some with notes by Stanton. Produced in Jelebu (Negri Sembilan), FMS.

Minutes of Management Committee, Establishment Committee, Works Committee, Nursing Committee; Secretary's files.

Papers of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Stillbirth and neonatal death/management of perinatal deaths working party, comprising background papers and correspondence, 1983-1984; President's background papers and correspondence, 1978-1985; Committee chairman's correspondence and papers on publication of report, 1984-1986; background literature and chairman's papers, 1983-1984; Chairman's correspondence and papers, 1984-1985; Report of the RCOG Working Party on the Management of Perinatal Deaths, with circulation list, 1985; minute book of the working party, 1984.

Notes by Robert Storrs, 1823-1896, recording interesting cases and medical events from his practice, together with transcripts of two papers read at the Sheffield Medical Society. With additional notes on drugs by an unidentified contributor, possibly one of Storrs's apprentices, and later notes by Storrs's grandson, Reginald Storrs, a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

Records of Sunbury Urban District Council, 1895-1971, including presented reports; correspondence, memoranda and copies of bye-laws, relating to the adoption of certain provisions of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907; deeds, agreements and other documents relating to The Cedars Estate, Sunbury; papers relating to a dispute between the owners of Sunbury Park Estate and the Council; agreements and contracts for various works to be carried out, particularly road maintenance works, sewer and drainage works, housing construction, civil defence structures and war damage repairs.

Letters patent appointing Commissioners, 1727-1840; writs to swear in Commissioners and to summon juries, 1727-1830; qualification book containing forms of declaration of £100 property owners, 1834-1844; court minutes and presentments, 1569-1642; court minutes, 1677-1781; court orders, 1703-1781; court minutes and orders, 1781-1847; General Purposes Committee minutes, 1820-1847; plans and sections of sluices, sewers, washways, culverts, roads, streets and wharves; original presentments of juries, not reproduced in full in the minutes, 1743-1793; out letter books, 1833-1848; financial records, 1789-1854 and rate books, 1723-1848.

Papers of survey of growth in the pre-school child in England and Wales, 1977, comprise original research data concerning the health and growth of children. The collection comprises data entry forms, dated 1977, used to collate data gathered from a sample of pre-school children in England and Wales. These questionnaires are all labelled 'part IV' and therefore possibly constitute a sample of the original research data collated.

Administrative records, records of clinical departments, estates records, finance records, human resources records, nursing records and photographs.

Minutes of a meeting held between Ing. Georg Vogel and Major Kusmin, 1945, concerning the repatriation of some Czech nationals which Kusmin authorised on receipt of medical certificates and a statement that they are free of lice. The remaining minutes deal with applications for food and clothing and the need for more disinfectors following the removal of the Russian ones.

Record books, 1902-1905 and 1921-1922, relating to the examination of water and water supplies.

Letters patent appointing Commissioners, 1811-1837; writ to swear in Commissioners and orders to summon juries, 1795-1827; solicitor's notes offering advice for legal cases and presentments, 1780-1845; minutes of the Commissioners, 1702-1811; registers of the Commissioners, 1702-1830; minutes of the proceedings of the Committee, 1831-1847; Chairman's business papers, 1821-1838; Committee reference books, 1832-1846; extracts from the Registers, 1702-1821; order of Court for the presentment of landowners and tenants within area of Commission, 1837; order to owners and occupiers to appear in Court regarding non-payment of rates, 1831-1832; presentments of jurors, 1746-1844; reports and petitions, 1703-1749; reports of Committees, 1750-1846; petitions, officer's reports and letters, 1750-1847; petitions to open drains into sewers, 1802-1824; petition books, 1838-1847; financial accounts, 1707-1847, including accounts of works expenditure; rate books, 1703-1846; tenders, specifications, agreements and contracts by and with tradesmen for work on the sewers, 1751-1846; report of the Committee in response to statements made in the Report of the Poor Law Commissioners on the 'sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain', 1843; plans of drains and public sewers, and maps of the jurisdiction of the Commission with levels and sewers marked.

Minute books, annual reports, plans and reports (taken from LT Chief Executives files).

Administration records, financial records; records of Tower Hamlets Health Promotion Department; nursing records, photographs; plans and miscellaneous records.

Correspondence, papers and final report of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists working party on ultrasound screening for fetal abnormalities, 1994-1997, and of the supplementary working group, 1998-2000.

Transcripts of interviews for Dr Mark Exworthy's project 'Understanding health variations and policy variations', 1999-2001, comprising copies of in-depth interviews with key stakeholders undertaken in stage 3 of the project, to examine the policy process in three diverse areas ('rural', 'urban', and 'mixed', ie suburban), and some contextual material.

Papers of Dame Janet Vaughan, mainly 1939-1949, including material on her work with the Emergency Blood Transfusion Service, social and industrial medicine and post-War medical services, child guidance, Health Survey and Development Committee in India, and treating sufferers from starvation liberated from Belsen.

The archive consists of a bundle of [Reuters] telexes, visual news-service production sheets from the News Research Unit of Visnews News Services and other papers, including press releases. All relate in some way to women's status, rights, actions and issues in different countries of the world, including France, Zimbabwe, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), United States of America (USA), South Africa, Italy, Ethiopia and Libya.

Minutes of the Joint Drainage Committee, 1915-1916; minutes of the Wandle Valley Joint Sewerage Board, 1917-1962; minutes of Wandle Valley Main Drainage Authority, 1963-1965; Orders, 1960-1962; Members attendance books, 1928-1965; registers of documents sealed, 1917-1965; register of tenders, 1948-1965.

Papers of Michael Donald Warren acquired in connection with his role as an Adviser to the Chief Scientist of the Department of Health and Social Security, 1970s-1980s, and some associated reports.

Letters Patent appointing Commissioners, 1691-1837; minutes, agendas and reports, 1659-1847; minutes and reports of other Committees including the Committee of Accounts, Committee for Improvement of the Sewers, Committee of Rates, Committee of Works and Occasional Committee; petitions and reports, 1683-1798; papers presented to the Court, 1777-1847; Surveyor's Reports of work performed by leave of the Court, 1809-1847; information and reports from the Clerk of Works on cases of surreptitious drainage, 1810-1848; Surveyor's Reports of Work done at the charge of the District, 1775-1848; journal of large works in progress, 1838-1848; contracts and specifications, 1811-1847; presentments (a 'Presentment of the Jurors' was required before work could be carried out or a rate levied. With a few exceptions the Westminster presentments consist of lists of owners or occupiers of land and houses on whom rates could be levied), 1668-1843; decrees, (decrees gave authority for the levying of rates for work on the sewers), 1675-1847; abstracts by the Clerk of Works of work performed on the sewers, recording the amount of time spent and materials used, serving as a check on the contractors' bills, 1810-1846; copies of letters and notices sent by order of the Commissioners, 1776-1848; financial accounts, 1701-1847, including contractor's bills and payments to workmen; rate books, 1703-1848; law suits and legal opinion, 1820-1840; registers of sewers and drains, 1812-1845, including new sewers; printed reports and papers, 1830-1849, including financial accounts, statements of income and expenditure, opinions of Counsel, reports by solicitors, reports of Surveyors, proposals for changes to the management and structure of the Commission, regulations and memorandums; maps and plans of properties, sewers, districts drained by specific sewers, maps of parishes and maps of London and Middlesex, 1762-1847.

Dissertation on human anthrax in the Rift Valley area of Kenya by Thomas Hedley White, 1961, for Diploma in Public Health at the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene. Includes photographs and diagrams.

The collection covers most aspects of Williams' life and career after 1939. Papers from her work with the British Colonial Service in Ghana, 1928-1936, were largely lost during transit to her next appointment in Singapore, but the typescript copy of her 1935 report The mortality and morbidity of the children of the Gold Coast is extant. Many papers relating to Williams' work with the British Colonial Service in Singapore, 1936-1941, were lost during the Japanese invasion, but she took a few files into Changi jail, where she wrote up the report An experiment in health work in Trengganu in 1940-1941. Notebooks, correspondence and writings made during her internment, when she was appointed as camp nutritionist by her fellow women prisoners, are also in the collection. Post-war papers cover most aspects of Williams' work, including positions with the World Health Organisation, the American University at Beirut and Tulane School of Public Health, as well as correspondence and collected reprints relating to work carried out in 'retirement' at Wyndham House, Oxford.

Papers of Dr. W. O. Williams comprising:

B WO A Williams committee papers 1966-1971
Records relating to Dr. W. O. Williams' membership of the Research Committee and the Academic Review Committee of the Royal College of General Practitioners. B WO B Williams Research Unit papers 1972-1988
Records relating to Dr. W. O. Williams' involvement with the Epidemic Observation Unit and the Swansea Research Unit of the Royal College of General Practitioners.B WO C Williams research and publications 1954-1988
Records relating to Dr. W. O. Williams' research projects and publications, includes bornholm disease, whooping cough, death certification, genetic cancer and doctors' workload. B WO D Williams miscellaneous papers.

The collection covers Lord Moran's life and career. It includes papers (committee minutes, correspondence, notes, printed material, ephemera, articles, parliamentary papers, etc.) re his position as Dean of St Mary's Hospital Medical School, 1920-1945; as President at the Royal College of Physicians, 1941-1950; his role in negotiations over the establishment and structure of the NHS, 1942-1960; as Chairman of the Awards Committee, 1948-1962. His other professional activities are covered in general correspondence files; a series of medical records, including material on Winston Churchill, 1944-1965; subject files relating to his role on various government, educational and medical bodies, including the commission to determine whether Rudolph Hess was mentally fit to stand trial in 1945. The collection includes drafts and papers re Anatomy of Courage (including photocopies of his World War I army notebooks), and Winston Churchill: Struggle for Survival. There is also a section of unpublished writings and speeches, 1921-1970. Papers consulted by Professor Lovell in Australia while writing his biography of Lord Moran, were returned in two batches, the first in April 1990, when he helped with the initial sorting and listing of the papers, and the second in April 1991. Some of these papers have been returned to the main body of the collection, however most have been kept in a separate section in the list (section L). The collection also contains personal and family material, photographs, press cuttings and ephemera, and a section comprising personal and professional papers of Lord Moran's wife Dorothy, Lady Moran (d.1983).

Papers of Sir Graham Selby Wilson, 1922-1931, comprise a collection of reprints used to aid Wilson's research. These reprints are mostly from the Journal of Experimental Medicine and include 'Epidemiological studies on respiratory infections of the rabbit VIII Carriers of bacterium lepiseoticum' by Leslie T Webster, reprinted from the Journal of Experimental Medicine, April 1, 1926, Vol.xliii, No.4 and 'Contribution to the manner of spread of mouse typhoid infection' by Leslie T Webster, reprinted from the Journal of Experimental Medicine, February 1, 1923, Vol.xxxvii, No 2.

Although the collection is by no means comprehensive, there are interesting records of many aspects of Wilson's career.

Section A. Biographical: Brings together material relating to obituaries, tributes, honours and awards. Includes Wilson's account of his First World War experiences and his assessment of his scientific publications. Section B. Research: Although not extensive, provides documentation of a number of Wilson's principal interests including the Salmonella group of bacteria and milk hygiene. There are three laboratory notebooks with experimental data covering the period 1919-45. Section C. Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS): Relates chiefly to the unpublished history written by Wilson after his retirement as Director of the PHLS. There is also a little material relating to laboratory design and equipment and PHLS personnel. Section D. Lectures and publications: The most substantial in the collection. There are records of Wilson's lectures for a period of forty years from 1944, extensive documentation of the later editions of Principles of bacteriology and immunity, and editorial correspondence and papers for the British Journal of Experimental Pathology and the Journal of Hygiene. Section E. Societies and organisations: Documentation of Wilson's association with ten British organisations including the Medical Research Club, Medical Research Council and Veterinary Club. The Medical Research Council material relates to the Working Party on Tristan da Cunha which was set up to supervise medical investigations when the inhabitants were evacuated to Britain after the island's volcano erupted in 1961. There is also material relating to the Research Foundation, Chicago, which specialised in tuberculosis research, on whose medical advisory committee Wilson served. Section F. Visits and conferences: Records of a number of overseas trips in an advisory capacity for the World Health Organisation, including to Ethiopia 1964, Iraq 1965, Iran, Sudan and Egypt 1971 and the Philippines 1972, and records of international microbiology congresses. Section G. Correspondence: Although not extensive, includes a chronological sequence of scientific correspondence, 1930-1987, Wilson's collection of autograph letters addressed to Topley and himself, and references and recommendations. Section H. Photographs: Photographic records of Wilson, colleagues, conferences and PHLS laboratories. Section J. 'Biographical History of Bacteriology': Manuscript of Wilson's history, with correspondence about publication.

Collection includes: Periodicals 1925- , annual reports 1923-1957, rules, pamphlets etc of the Women Sanitary Inspector's and Health Visitors Association (founded 1896) renamed Women Public Health Officers' Association and later renamed again Health Visitors' Association. News sheet, 1925-1946, (incomplete) Women Public Health Officers' Association journal 'The Woman Health Officer' 1928, 1936-1937; Health Visitors' Association rules; Woman Health Officer: official organ of the Health Visitors' Association; pamphlets and annual report; A History in Health 1896-1996 by Jennifer Smith, 1996. Association for Moral and Social Hygiene founded by Josephine Butler in 1870, annual reports 1922-1934 (incomplete).

Records of Women in Gynaecology and Obstetrics, comprising:
Minutes (1982-1996), correspondence, policy papers, campaigning material, training programmes, conference papers (1991-1997) and published articles (1985-1997).

Manuscript notes taken by Robert Steavenson on 'A complete course of lectures on midwifery and on the diseases of pregnant and puerperal women and of children' from lectures delivered by Thomas Young, Edinburgh, 21 Jul 1776.