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Papers of Fred Stratton, 1959-2003. Section A, Biographical, is very slight. It presents obituaries of Stratton, his curriculum vitae and list of publications. Section B, Research, is not extensive. There is some general and miscellaneous material, including schemes for Medical Research Council trials from 1978, a little documentation of research work of colleagues C.M. Giles and A.H. Merry, and material relating to a proposed private/public cooperation on blood preservation. There are subsections relating to Stratton's interest in the rare condition Angioneurotic Oedema, and to the Working Party on the Standardisation of Antiglobulin Reagents, a joint working party of the International Society of Blood Transfusion and the International Centre for Standardization in Haematology. There is a short sequence of correspondence, chiefly relating to haematology, and non-textual material, principally slides but also including a photograph, marked 'Very valuable' of 'Haemolysing anti P'.

Section C, Lectures and publications, is the largest in the collection. It comprises principally a sequence of drafts 1959-1986, mostly relating to public and invitation lectures delivered worldwide - Stratton travelled widely - on blood transfusion topics. The bulk of the drafts date from the 1970s and 1980s. In preparing a lecture or paper Stratton corrected and revised his drafts extensively and the material bears witness to the care he took. The section includes some illustrative material, chiefly for slides for lectures, and offprints of some of Stratton's publications.

Section D, British Blood Transfusion Society, covers the period 1981-1991. It offers significant documentation of the conception and establishment of the BBTS - membership, constitution, funding, relations with other bodies - and its early days during Stratton's inaugural Presidency, including administrative papers, organisation of meetings, speeches given by Stratton at BBTS occasions and awards made. Section E, Visits and conferences, is a presentation of a little material relating to visits made and conferences attended. The range and frequency of Stratton's travel is better evidenced in section C; many of his lectures are noted as being delivered to overseas audiences or at international conferences. There is also an index of correspondents.

The papers of T L Cleave, a pioneer in the field of nutrition, are predominantly correspondence files, generated by the series of publications in which he outlined his views on the medical dangers of a diet containing refined carbohydrate. The collection reflects the organic growth of an hypothesis, together with supportive evidence gathered from across the world, culminating in The Saccharine Disease, first published jointly with G D Campbell (1966). The majority of the papers are from 1952-1975.

Papers of the Association of Health and Residential Care Officers including minutes, yearbooks, and files on conferences and on general organisational matters. Minutes of the entire organisation survive only from 1915 and there is a large gap for the period 1933-1946, although there are earlier minutes from No 2 and No 4 Inspection Districts. Files relating to the organisation of, and proceedings at, Annual Conferences only go back to 1961.

Papers of the British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) documenting its work, consisting mainly of unsigned minutes of Council meetings, AGMs and Committee meetings, 1971-1994, including editorial board of the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy; meetings programmes, 1972-1994; newsletters, 1990-1995; reports and discussion documents, 1982-1994; and records of international conferences, 1988-1993.

The records comprise the archive of the English Association and of the merged Association and give a representative overview of the work of the British Association of Occupational Therapists.Council minutes date from the establishment of the Association and include minutes of a joint Scottish/English Council 1952-1974.

The minutes and associated papers of the Executive Committee and other committees and sub-committees are not as complete: some may have been lost during the move to the present offices in 1989, others disposed of before then.

Correspondence between Dr J.H. Baron and others involved in the British Health Care Arts Centre, and other related papers, 1984-1993.

Material relating to the setting up of the British Association of Holistic Health, 1984, further organisational developments, relations with other organisations and publications.

Papers of the Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research Trust, 1910-1994. The bulk of the archive is made up of the files of Beit fellows. The first Fellowships were awarded in 1910 and the lists in Section B.1 cover all the Fellows, 1910-1994. The Fellows' files in A.2 date from 1912-1990. Other records include minutes of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board (Fuller sets of minutes remain in the hands of the Trustees), correspondence, handbooks, some financial records and Directors' Reports and a newscuttings album. There is also a printed history of the Fellowships in section G.2.. A great deal of the correspondence on individual subjects survives from TR Elliott's time as Honorary Secretary.

Minutes of National Council for Combatting Venereal Diseases (later the British Social Hygiene Council) including of Annual and Executive meetings, and other committees, sub-committees, standing committees and advisory boards, 1914-1957; also London and Home Counties Branch/Committee minutes, 1917-1940; a few financial records, 1942-1952; and journal Health and Empire, 1926-1940; pamphlets and similar literature of the NCCVD and related organisations, 1913-1918, n.d..

Papers of the Camberwell Council on Alcoholism including Minutes 1963-1980; annual reports, 1970s; reports and research papers, 1973-1979; files on alcoholism, homelessness, licensing laws, drunken driving, etc, and papers relating to liaison with related bodies, 1961-1980.

Records of the Cancer Research Campaign formerly the British Empire Cancer Campaign, covering all aspects of the Campaign's organization and activities. Sections A-C comprise committee minutes, agenda and papers, 1923-1976. The minutes of central headquarters committees are extensive, but there are serious gaps in the top level committees: Grand Council, the Executive Committee and the Scientific Advisory Committee. Efforts to locate the missing records have so far been unsuccessful. In addition, many minutes of sub-committees are either incomplete or unsigned copies. The collection contains very few records of regional branches; and information regarding either their existence or whereabouts is scant. The main body of the archive, Sections D-R, consists largely of files generated by Campaign headquarters, mainly the General Secretary's office. Files contain correspondence, reports, pamphlets, legal documents, press cuttings, articles, off-prints, posters, ephemera, etc. They cover the Campaign's history and organisation; senior members; relations with regional councils, branches, affiliatated bodies and other cancer organisations, both in the UK and overseas; cancer research and government provision; fund raising; research materials and equipment; cancer cures and causes; views and enquiries from the general public; cancer education and publications. There is also a series of press cuttings volumes, and three publicity films made in the 1950s.

The collection covers material relating to activities of the Association of District Community Physicians from its inception to 1980. They include minutes, lists of members, newsletters and subject files. Many files relate to the role of the District Community Physician in the reorganised NHS. The final year of its existence is not covered; however, some information may be found in the papers of the Society of Medical Officers of Health (SA/SMO) and Association of Area Medical Officers of Health (SA/AMO).

Minutes and papers of the 1942 Club, 1942-1993.

General Optical Council administrative records, 1959-2000: minutes of the meetings of the Council and its various committees including related memos and correspondence, Annual Reports of the Council and Committees, Notices of Motion, Registers of Opticians and Lists of Corporate Bodies.

Papers of the Hospital Infection Society chiefly comprising the papers collected by its officers, 1979-1995. They include membership records, council and AGM minutes, and papers from conferences and meetings.

Papers of the Health Visitors' Association dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th century until 1984, when Jane Wyndham-Kaye retired as General Secretary. It consists of minute books of the Executive Committee and various sub-committees, publications, ephemera and photographs, produced or collected by the Association. It does not, however, include any material from the Association's regional Centres and specialist Groups.

Papers of the Medical Research Council Medical Cyclotron Unit (MRCMCU), 1934-1961, comprising records relating to the Radium Beam Therapy Research Committee, 1933-1945; and records, including case registers, of treatment carried out using the radium beam and linear accelerator, 1934-1960.

Papers of the Nation's Fund for Nurses, 1915-1988, comprising records of the British Women's Hospital Committee, 1915-1920; records of the Nation's Fund for Nurses, 1915-1988, including information on the dispute by Mrs Bedford Fenwick's Royal British Nurses' Association about the College of Nursing, details of the grants distributed by the Tribute Fund, records relating to Miss May Beeman, and records of the rest home at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight; records of the Edith Cavell Homes of Rest for Nurses, 1916-1984; records of the Archer House Home, 1919-1966; records of the Council for the Provision of Rest Breaks Houses for Nurses and Midwives, 1944-1958; records of the Fund for the Benefit of East Lancashire Nurses, 1918-1953; records of the Queen Alexandra Relief Fund for War Nurses, 1922-1979; records of the Elderly Nurses' Fund (Nursing Mirror Nurses and Midwives Fund), 1925-1979; and memorabilia relating to Annie, Viscountess Cowdray.

Papers of the Neonatal Society, 1959-2005, comprising correspondence and material relating to society meetings, membership and constitution.

Minute books, 1926-1927, and Annual reports, 1926-1938, of the Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, and volumes of press-cuttings about the Centre 1929-1961; files, publications and ephemera relating to the activities of the Centre, 1925-1952; files of the Pioneer Health Centre Ltd following the closure of the Centre, 1950-1999; books about the Centre; photographs, films and videos; papers of George Scott Williamson, 1910-1991, including personalia, correspondence, lectures, drafts of articles and books, notes; papers of Innes Hope Pearse, including personalia, correspondence, notes, manuscripts, drafts of The Quality of Life, reprints; materials relating to Scott Williamson and Pearse's research on pathology and the thyroid, including notes, lectures, manuscripts, correspondence, and reprints.

Papers of the Politics Of Health Group, 1980-1986, comprising administrative papers, newsletters, publications, and material relating to J Mitchell, a member of POHG.

The administrative records of the Institute form the core of the collection: minutes, annual reports and legal and financial material. Supporting correspondence is more patchy. Five bundles of early letters and reports had been kept (these have been listed as F.2/1, F.2/3, F.4/1-2 and S.2/2): apart from these and the runs of post-war correspondence (F.6-7), correspondence was scattered amongst the 'historical' filing cabinets and the 'Archive' files, and the archivist has had to reconstruct the series from which letters and files might have been extracted. Correspondence around the founding and early years of the Institute has been placed together with what appears to be collected or deposited correspondence of the founders (F.1), and a series of 'Subject files' has been created, pulling together scattered files and publications on particular topics (some 'files' consisting only of two or three letters). The destruction of correspondence files leaves sadly little to illustrate conditions under which district nurses worked in the early years. Some impression can be gained from correspondence with the Scottish and Irish branches (S.1-2) as well as less vividly in the reports in section Q. One letter dated 1904 survived alone, mentioning somewhat obliquely conditions in the East End of London: it has been placed with the bundles of letters and reports, ref F.4.

There is a good accumulation of publications and information put out by the Institute, and other publications relating to district nursing (Section P). It was feared that the only record relating to Florence Lees's 1875 survey of district nursing provision in London was the single letter from Florence Nightingale to JJ Frederick (F.1/3), but in 1998 the QNI offered a manuscript volume which appears to be a transcript of at least part of the report, plus a report to William Rathbone on district nursing in Liverpool (also dated 1875). This volume has been added to the archive as Y.1.

Records of other bodies which had been collected or accumulated over the years include Federations of member associations of the Institute (R.2-3), nurses' representative bodies (Section V) and individual district nursing associations (Section X). Minutes and memorabilia of Elizabeth Fry's Institution of Nursing Sisters (Protestant Sisters of Charity) dating from 1840 to 1939, have been listed as section W; unfortunately, only the first of each of that body's registers of nurses survive, the rest having been sent for salvage during the Second World War. The National Gardens Scheme, although established to raise funds for the Institute, is now separately administered, and no records of the administration are found here apart from the sub-committee minutes in C.3, but five bundles of correspondence in Section F.6 touch on the subject, including one with Alfred Wagg.

Papers of individuals also occur. Those of Dame Rosalind Paget have been sorted into an order reflecting the different stages and interests of her life (Z.1): they include Dame Rosalind's annotated copy of the 1925 report on maternal mortality by Mary Beard of the Rockefeller Foundation. Memorabilia of district nurses sent to the Institute at other times, and obituaries of Institute officers, also occur in Section Z.

Papers of the Association for Research into Restricted Growth, 1964-1988, now called the Restricted Growth Association, comprising administrative records, 1970-c 1988; records relating to the Association's links with other organisations, 1976-1987; publications; general correspondence, 1969-1987; correspondence concerning individual cases, 1972-1986; and biographical material relating to Dr William Geoffrey Shakespeare.

Papers of the Society for Social Medicine, 1956-2005, comprising administrative records, 1956-2003; minutes of annual general meetings, the executive committee, and scientific meetings, 1957-2005; external relations materials, 1956-2003; mailings to members, 1987-2003; evidence and opinions submitted by the Society; and papers relating to the Society's links with associated organisations.

Papers of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1874-[1984], comprising reports, correspondence, administration records, staff files, inventories, diaries, registers, notebooks, financial records, details of exhibitions and events, visitors books, photographs, publications, presscuttings, and papers relating to Henry Solomon Wellcome's personal life including arrangements for his funeral.

Papers of the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories (WPRL), 1903-1927, comprising publications including handbooks of early information and volumes of staff reprints, and a microfilm copy of a file relating to the history of the Laboratories.

The collection comprises material on medical history and notes on scatological remedies used in Mexico, and biographical notes on Dr. Miguel Francisco Jiménez (1813-1876).

The items in this collection are concerned with ornithology. WMS/Amer.109 is a copy of part of William Bartram's work on North American birds, while WMS/Amer.110-111 comprise Sabine's own observations, respectively on the Niagara frontier of Canada and in the Arctic during Parry's 1819-1820 expedition in the Hecla.

The papers in this collection comprise official documentation issued by the authorities in New Spain (specifically, in Mexico). They include the appointment of José Gracida y Bernal (1760?-1815) as one of the Protomedicatos who were in charge of medical matters in New Spain (WMS/Amer.96); three certificates issued by Protomedicatos giving individuals licence to practice medicine (WMS/Amer.51, 64 and 97); a copy of a notice suspending quarantine procedures in the city of Mexico during the fever epidemic of 1813 (WMS/Amer.3); and a order authorising payment to F.X. de Balmis (1753-1819) for work on indigenous plants in the treatment of syphilis (WMS/Amer.62).

The items in this collection relate to accusations of witchcraft made by women in the early 19th century, naming the alleged witch. The papers originate in some part of the empire of New Spain, probably Mexico.

Papers of Colonel Donovan including correspondence with Sir Ronald Ross 1903, Letters and telegram regarding investigation and confirmation of the newly-discovered leishmania donovani 1903-1904, Donovan's published works 1904-1909, later correspondence with Raghavendra Row 1912-1914, material on the subject of herbal medicine 1895-1922 and biographical material.

Papers of Mrs A A C Skelland including personal certificates, etc, 1909-1934, job references 1910-1928 and drawings and watercolours 1917-1921.

Clinical photographs from Mulago Hospital, [1948-1964]; records of research into Burkitt's Lymphoma and fibre deficiency diseases, nd.

The collection comprises drawings and photographs concerning mosquitos and malaria, plus correspondence with Sir Rickard Christophers.

Papers of Donald Breadalbane Blacklock including a report on malaria in ships in West Africa, compiled in 1947 for the 'Medical History of the War'; notes for a talk on 'Malaria in Freetown Sierra Leone'; correspondence; photographs.

Transcripts of seminars for general practitioners, led by Michael Balint, 1966-1970.

'The story of a great adventure. The history of the foundation of the English Hospital for French Soldiers, at the Old Chateau at St Malo, September 1914, transferred March 1915 to the Grand Hotel des Greves now known as the Hospital Notre Dame des Greves, St Malo, 1915.'

Correspondence and literature of various charitable bodies with which Sir Richard Cave was associated, 1954-1973, including the British Obesity Association, 1967-1969; Disabled Christians' Fellowship, 1959; International Holiday Camp and Rally for the Disabled, 1958; Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled , c 1970s; Scroth Centre for the Treatment of Rheumatic Disease by Natural Therapeutics, c 1950s-1970s; Society for the Relief of Distress and other bodies.

Personal papers, letters, diary notes of First World War service, photographs, etc of Sir William Maddock Bayliss, 1877-1923. Also papers on EH Starling (1866-1927), physiologist, 1892-1927, which include letters of EA Sharpey-Shafer (1850-1935), physiologist, and AV Hill (1886-1977), physiologist; and letters of F Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947), biochemist, 1924-1936.

Memoir of the first twenty-five years of Fenwick Miller's life 'An uncommon girlhood', (typed by her daughter, militant suffragette Irene Miller c 1920s-1930s), including her struggle for medical education, her involvement in this and other campaigns and with radical circles of the day, her election to the London School Board, her marriage, her contacts with the other pioneers in this field and their male allies, and her experiences in medical practice. She was also involved with the London Dialectical Society and freethought and Malthusian circles during the years described.

Notebooks (in German and Italian) on pharmacology and pathology, c 1930s.

Reminiscences of Peter Dundas Grant of his work in Tanganyika [Tanzania] whilst employed in the Government Medical Service, 1954-1962, entitled, 'Bwana Daktari, or far away and long ago' by 'Mganga was Nyika' [Peter Dundas Grant]: comprising 18 short chapters on individual cases or incidents, written 'about thirty years later'.

Memoir of Brenda Morrison and other papers including memoir entitled ''Reminiscences of a woman doctor, 1933-1956', in which she describes developments in paediatrics during that period and also various other contemporary medical developments such as blood transfusion, plastic surgery, antibiotics and chemotherapy; C.V. 1998; reprints of publications by Dr Morrison, 1945-1957 (incomplete set) and memoir of her later life 'Training and Practice in Psychoanalysis 1956-1996' .

The study was based on meetings and taped interviews with consultants, junior doctors and nursing staff, plus documentary evidence. The latter is not included in the records given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, nor (with one exception) are the records of meetings, but the taped interviews have been deposited in full. The interviewees give pseudonyms rather than their actual names.

BBC scripts on tropical medicine, 1947-1951; personal records, etc; MD Thesis 'A preliminary study of chemotherapy' (1929); Ministry of Health advice re typhus fever, vaccination of travellers, immunisation of armed forces personnel, 1943-1949; register of vaccinations and inoculations administered 1946-1950.

'Report on Sanitary Investigation in Oyo and Abeokuta Provinces, 1930': to the Director of the Medical and Sanitary Service, Lagos, Nigeria. Typescript with photos and charts.

Papers of Carl Prausnitz-Giles including memorandum on the teaching of hygiene in the German Empire, 1930; lecture 'In Quest of Allergy', 1959; notes; obituary.

'Journal of a Red Cross VAD member on Special Service during the Great War' (in Malta), 1915-1916. The writer, Rosa Louise Hunt, describes her service with the Voluntary Aid Detachment from 25 Nov 1915 until 5 Mar 1916, in Malta, beginning with the news that she was being posted to a military hospital abroad, but breaking off abruptly while she was still in Malta.

Papers of Thomas Renton Elliott on clinical record keeping in the First World War, 1916-1918; regarding History of the Great War: Medical Services; clinical research on massive lung collapse and gas poisoning; administration of clinical medicine in University College Hospital, 1929-1932; Therapeutic Trials Committee (MRC), 1930s; letters, 1886-1937; silhouettes of Elliot and others in France.

Papers relating to the Charterhouse Rheumatism Clinic including ephemera, cuttings and reprints by H W Crowe (1875-1961), the founder of the Clinic, on rheumatism and tuberculosis.

Papers of Dr Frank Richard Philps, comprising 'Prisoner Doctor', an account of his experiences as an RAF Medical Officer during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, 1942-1945; Chapter 1 Into the Bag Page 1; Chapter 2 Hippocrates Go Hang Page 17; Chapter 3 Haruku I Epidemic Page 33; Chapter 4 Haruku II Yeast Page 58; Chapter 5 Haruku III Coral Page 86; Chapter 6 Ambon Page 92; Chapter 7 Return to Java Page 96; Chapter 8 Return to Singapore Page 105; Chapter 9 Changi Gaol Page 115; Chapter 10 Return to Life Page 125.