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Papers of the Conference of Royal Colleges and their Faculties of Medicine in the UK, comprising correspondence including papers concerning the formation of the Conference from the Standing Committee, 1976-1984; Minutes, agenda, papers and related correspondence, 1975-1984; College Presidents' correspondence and papers as Chairman of the Conference, 1983-1990.

Financial records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1926-1999, comprising records of the Finance Department, predecessors and other College departments.
The records range from policy files, correspondence relating to various appeals and memorials, signed accounts and accounting records. A large quantity of the earlier records appears to be samples of records destroyed, retained as examples of current practice at the time. For details refer to individual series descriptions, which are arranged as follows:
F1: Annual audited accounts, 1968-1986.
F2: Trial balances, 1969-1977.
F3: Records relating to investments and the Investment Advisory Panel, 1954-1992.
F4: Journal books, 1974-1981.
F5: Chief Accountant's correspondence files, 1962-1987.
F6: Pension schemes for College staff: Accountants' correspondence, 1969-1976.
F7: Financial summaries of meetings and other College events, 1979-1982.
F8-F15: Appeals and memorial funds, 1932-1987.
F16: Regional councils' accounts and ledgers, 1954-1970.
F17: Papers relating to bequests to the College, 1952-1980.
F18: Review of the College's accounting systems and organisation, 1970.
F19-F24: Ledgers, journals and account books, 1926-1986.
F25-F27: Special funds' ledgers, cash books and journals, 1931-1982.
F28: Research and Development Fund, 1966-1978.
F29: Salaries books, 1946-1965.
F30: Fellows' and Members' subscriptions' and fees' cash books, 1929-1967.
F31: Fellows' and Members' day book, 1972.
F32: Joint Committee on Contraception: annual audited accounts, 1977-1995.
F33: British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology: financial records, 1953-1971.

Agenda, minutes, including signed minutes of the Chairman, and papers, correspondence, questionnaire and the final report, 1982-1984, of the RCOG medical gynaecology working party.

Correspondence of E A J Alment, papers and background material, 1967-1980, of the RCOG working party on manpower in obstetrics and gynaecology, including survey papers on London, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and papers on the employment of junior staff from overseas and a survey of North East Thames region.

Minutes and correspondence of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists LOGIC (Learning in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for In-Service Clinicians) working party, (formerly PROLOG working party) correspondence with drug companies and data research services and obstetrics answer books, 1984-1988. The minute book only goes up to 1985.

Correspondence between Sir John Peel and senior obstetricians concerning the format of his questionnaire relating to caesarean sections; copies of his proposed questionnaire; statistical information supplied by hospital and university departments, and a copy of Peel's preliminary report on his survey.

Agenda, minutes and papers, correspondence, background material and the draft report of the Reproductive Health/Community Gynaecology working group of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1991-1993.

Personal papers of Sir Stanley George Clayton, 1938-1986, including copies of speeches made as President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, personal copies of President's Letters, Clinical and surgical research notes, 1938-1945, case notes, 1962-1979; correspondence and other papers concerning the House of Commons Select Committee on Abortion, 1974-1976; correspondence concerning the Margaret Pyke Centre, London, 1978-1984.

Off-print of 'The birth of a College' by Sir William Fletcher Shaw, in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire, Vol 57 No 6 (1950) pp 876-890.

Papers of Roy Samuel Dobbin, 1931-1946, relating to his gifts of books and manuscripts to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and its library.

Professional and clinical papers of William Rotheram, 1939-1953, including his Curriculum vitae, forming part of his application for the chair of dental surgery at London University, c.1945; series of undated obstetric and gynaecological case notes; undated notes made in preparation for MRCOG examination; case records submitted for the MRCOG examination, c1949; papers relating to Rotheram's examination and election as MRCOG, 1953; bound illustrated typescript of "Pulpar Diagnosis by a Thermionic Oscillatory Circuit" by Rotheram, undated; offprint of "Pulpar Diagnosis by a Thermionic Oscillatory Circuit" by Rotheram. British Dental Journal, 1940, with associated correspondence, 1940; bound typescript of "Electronics in Maxillo-facial Surgery" by Rotheram, 1948; bound typescript of "Diagnosis of Swelling about the Jaws" by Rotheram, undated; bound typescript of "An Electronic Method for Immediate Visual Recording of Heart Rate" by Rotheram, paper given to Royal Society of Medicine 26 Jan 1948; series of case notes relating to members of HM forces treated by Rotheram as specialist maxillo-facial dental surgeon. Some of these notes were intended for publication in the British Dental Journal, c1945-1946.

Papers of Vivian Bartley Green-Armytage, 1915-1967, comprising certificates as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1952, Foundation Fellow of the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1930, as officier and chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur, 1958, 1967, Membre D'Honneur of the Societe Francais de Gynaecologie, undated; display labels for the display cabinet, and certificate of Green-Armytage having been mentioned in a despatch during action in World War One, 1915.

The item comprises a wooden block on which is mounted Sir James Young Simpson's signature, apparently torn from a document. Only the first part of the date, "31st Dec", survives.

Papers of the Royal Maternity Charity, 1761-1949, including minute books, 1761-1949; 'Rough minute books', 1772-1826 and case-book of Robert Barnes at the Royal Maternity Charity, Oct 1857-Oct 1858.

Records of the Annual General Meetings of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1929-1976, comprising attendance book, 1930-1968; minute book of the first to the tenth annual meetings, 1930-1976.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists relating to the Abortion Act 1967 and subsequent amendments, 1964-1982, comprising the principal files of College presidents on the Abortion Act 1967 and the College's involvement in the issue of abortion, from the presidency of Sir Hector MacLennan to the first year of that of Sir Rustan Feroze, plus papers relating to a College enquiry into the first year of the 1967 Act and the College's joint study with the Royal College of General Practitioners of attitudes to pregnancy. The files contain correspondence, reports, copies of the abortion bill, legal opinions, evidence and responses of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to the Lane Committee of Inquiry, copies of Hansard, memoranda and pamphlets on abortion, press cuttings.

Competence to Practise: The Report of a Committee of Enquiry set up for the Medical Profession in the United Kingdom, 1976.

First and second reports of the RCOG Manpower advisory sub-committee, with related correspondence, comments and papers, 1982-1990; photocopies of Hospital Recognition Committee forms: annual review of recognised hospital appointments, which provide data on staffing and training, and obstetrical and gynaecological statistics for individual hospitals, 1979-1980.

Papers of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists working party on the role of women doctors in obstetrics and gynaecology, 1984-1987, including Minute book, 1983-1984; Committee meetings' papers, 1983-1985; Working party's secretary's papers, 1983-1984; Committee chairman's correspondence, 1984-1985; Correspondence relating to oral evidence to the working party, 1984-1985; Memorandum of Council on the Role of Women Doctors in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (published report, 2 copies), 1987; Draft report of the working party on the role of women doctors in obstetrics and gynaecology, 1975-1984; Antenatal and gynaecological clinics, questionnaire: Responses; Questionnaires completed by medical students and doctors.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Ethics Committee, 1981-2005, comprising agenda, minutes, papers and correspondence; reports on specific issues.

Papers of William Blair-Bell, 1913-1931, comprising personal correspondence, correspondence and papers relating to the treatment of cancer, and letters relating to individual patients; casebooks, 1900-1903, 1908-1911; notebook containing physiological tracings obtained by Blair-Bell and G H Lansdown, 1893; notebook of test results kept for Blair-Bell, 1911 with case notes inserted; Blair-Bell's lecture notebooks, c1904, on topics including chemistry, insanity, anatomy, diseases of the eye, psychology, surgical pathology, zoology, physiology, intestinal obstruction, surgery, tumours: innocent and malignant, midwifery and gynaecology, infectious diseases, diseases of the gall bladder, a sketchbook of histology and loose notes on various medical conditions; notebooks entitled 'catalogue of old books belonging to W Blair Bell', divided into 'general' and 'medical', 1907 and thesis by Helen Standring, 'An investigation of the cause and treatment of uterine inertia', 1928.

Papers of William Blair-Bell, 1909-1938, relating to a range of professional subjects, including Blair-Bell's cancer research work (particularly his use of lead) and the wider organisation of cancer research; the Liverpool Medical Research Organisation; the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire Publishing Company; the British Congresses of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BCOG); and Blair-Bell's nursing home and practice in Rodney Street. It also contains papers and correspondence concerning Eardiston, Blair-Bell's country estate near Oswestry; Rossall School, Preston, which Blair-Bell attended as a pupil and on whose council he later served; his wife's memorial in the church of St Chad's Haughton, Shropshire; and other personal matters. Only a small amount of material is concerned with the founding of the BCOG. Some pieces contain confidential medical records about individual patients.

Copy of the will and grant of probate of William Blair Bell, 1935-1936.

Drawings comprising copies of designs by William Blair-Bell for the presidential badge and ceremonial robe and for a Fellow's robe, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1931.

Autobiography of Sir Norman Jeffcoate, c1985-1993, with loan copies and floppy disc from which the autobiography was prepared.

Letters by Harold Hugh Francis, 1994, relating to biographical inaccuracies concerning William Blair-Bell, gynaecologist, in Lives of the Fellows of the RCOG 1929-1969 (Whitefriars Press Ltd, 1975) and William Blair Bell - founder and father (c1986), both by Sir John Peel; anecdotes concerning Blair-Bell which were recounted to Mr Francis.

Certificate of Appointment of John Nussey as Apothecary in Ordinary to King George IV, 25 Feb 1825.

Papers of Robert Barnes, c 1838-1891, including a series of 46 notebooks, c 1838-1891, two of which contain more extended sections of case material.Typically these volumes include notes and cuttings on books and articles by other authors. Also included are a few items of correspondence, illustrations and case material. Two of these notebooks are of a combined noted and cases format i.e diary entries on visits to own or colleagues' patients rather than as supporting second-hand information or for reference. Case books, c 1846-1863, comprising General Practice (Including male patients) and Obstetric (Obstetrical and Gynaecological patients). Reports as Medical Officer of Health, Shoreditch, 1857-1859 and birth, mortality and temperature Charts of sufferers of scarlatina, 1875-1884.

Five pen and ink cartoons made by Sir Anthony Alment concerning the controversies surrounding the establishment of the National Health Service, and the views of the medical profession, [1946-1948].

Copper plates showing various defects in new born babies, undated.

Records relating to pregnancy in a dwarf, 1963-1965, include a tape recording (subject matter unknown), glass slides, photographs, x-rays and Bender's subsequent article on the pregnancy, published in the British Medical Journal, 1965:2, p 1116.

Records the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1925-1999, comprising working files on Council meetings, 1971-1980; President's Council meeting papers, 1978-1980; papers relating to elections to Council, 1981-1986; papers of the Council sub-committees and working parties on constitutional matters, 1973-1984; Council attendance books, 1929-1993; minute books, 1929-1999.

Records of the Finance and Executive Group, previously Finance and Executive Committee and Executive Committee, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1929-1999, comprising agenda, minutes, papers and correspondence, 1959-2001, including minutes and papers of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Australian and New Zealand Councils, 1971-1972; minute books of the Finance and Executive Group, 1929-1999.

the records are arranged in the following series:-
C1: Standing Joint-Committee of the RCOG, RCP and RCSENG, 1939-1974.
C2: Conference of the Royal Medical Colleges, 1975-1990.
C3: Joint Consultants' Committee, 1948-1985.
C4: RCOG and British Paediatric Association Standing Committee/RCPCH, 1949-1997.
C6: Ad hoc committee on analgesia and anaesthesia. 1970-1975.
C7: Joint RCOG and RCGP committees and working parties, 1968-1993.
C8: RCOG and National Birthday Trust Fund, 1967-1984.
C9: RCOG and RCR working party on ultrasound, 1985-1997C10: RCOG and Population Investigation Committee of the Eugenics Society, 1949-1952.
C11: Representative Committee (later the Negotiating Committee), 1945-1948.
C12: Joint MRC and RCOG Voluntary Licensing Authority for Human In Vitro Fertilisation and Embryology, 1985-1986.
C13: Joint working party to consider a proposed Faculty of Family Planning, 1984-1990.
C14: Joint Medico-Legal Committee of the RCOG and Defence Societies, 1985-1998.
C15: Joint Colleges forum of the RCOG, RCGP and RCM on maternity services for the 1990s, 1992.
C16: Ad hoc committee/interdisciplinary working party on the confidential enquiry into perinatal mortality, 1981-1985.
C17: Committee of Enquiry into Competence to Practise, 1976.
C18: RCOG response to the Interim Report of the Joint Council of Midwifery on non-therapeutic abortion and Inter-departmental Committee of the Ministry of Health on the problem of abortion, 1936-1938.
C19: Multidisciplinary Working Group: Prenatal Screening for Toxoplasmosis in the UK 1991-1996.
C20: RCOG Standing Advisory Committee of the RCOG and College of Anaesthetists working party on resuscitation of the newborn (1987): instruction manuals, c1987.
C21: Advisory Appointments Committees (1955): College records, 1955-1992.
C22: Joint working parties of the RCOG and Royal College of Pathologists (1986-1988): final reports, 1988..
C23: Joint steering group on teenage pregnancy: records, 1993-1995.
C24: Joint working group of the RCOG and British Gynaecological Cancer Society: records, 1997.

Papers of the Standing Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and British Paediatric Association, later Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health, 1949-1993, mainly from the time of the reconstitution of the committee in 1965 and dealing particularly with staffing structure of maternity units for the care of the newborn. They include Committee agenda, minutes and papers, 1980-1988; Papers and correspondence of the Joint BPA/RCOG Standing Committee on Prematurity, 1949-1954; Correspondence and some minutes largely concerned with the establishment of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Oxford, 1974-1979; Results of questionnaires circulated when compiling data for the BPA/RCOG discussion document: Midwife and nurse staffing and training for special care and intensive care of the new born, 1978-1980; RCOG/BPA reviews of Maternity Services Advisory Committee reports, 1985-1986; Correspondence and papers relating to Royal College of Physicians working party on neonatal services, 1986; records of multidisciplinary working party on resuscitation of the newborn, 1995-1997; report on fetal abnormalities - guidelines for screening, diagnosis and management, 1997.

Correspondence of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists with the Blair Bell Research Society, primarily concerning with scientific meetings held by the Society in the College, and including some minutes, 1960-1972.

Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality in England, Scotland and Wales: report of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists working party, Jan 1996.

Report of the Hospital Visiting Working Party (May 1993).

The series at present comprises only the final report of the Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (DRCOG) working party, 1993.

Photographs and pictures of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1633-2001. The majority of photographs depict the membership and social history of the College and include presidential portraits and photographs of Fellows and Members, prominent obstetricians and gynaecologists, visitors to the College, meetings and study groups. There is also a class of photographs of College buildings. Donated and deposited material also includes photographs and slides of clinical disorders and specimens.

Records comprise portraits, pictures and other memorabilia relating to William Blair-Bell, 1920-1996; presidential portraits, 1927-1995; portraits of Fellows, 1935-1991; photographs of Honorary Fellows, 1921-1997; photographs of annual dinners, 1931-1954, 1998; photographs of admission ceremonies, 1931-1992; College buildings, 1930-1991; Royal visits, 1931-1990; Council and officers, 1934-1992; photographs of meetings, members and artefacts of the Gynaecological Visiting Society, 1911-1973; British congresses of obstetrics and gynaecology, 1933-1999; photographs of overseas groups and other photographs relating to the profession overseas, 1935-1997; RCOG study groups and educational courses, 1979-1995; photographs and paintings donated to the College by Professor Preston Maxwell, 1898-1935; presentations, awards and lectures, 1949-1995; Strachan collection of portraits of eminent medical men, c1693-c1847; ceremonial and related paraphernalia and artefacts and gifts to the College, 1931-1992; miscellaneous photographs relating to the history of the College and of obstetrics and gynaecology, 1929-1999; decorative pictures, 1633-1957; photographs of pathological subjects transferred from the College Museum, 1950s-1978; photographs and drawings presented to the College by Professor John Chassar Moir, 1932-1957; photographs of eminent medical men collected by Sir Anthony Alment, transferred from the College Library, 1921; photographs and memorabilia relating to Sir Norman Jeffcoate, 1946-1975;

undated portrait photographs of eminent medical persons; Donald Whatley Roy photographs donated to the College Archives by A D Roy, 1903-1935;

collection of miscellaneous photographs transferred from the College Library, undated.

Personnel file for one College Secretary only.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' External Affairs Committee, 1932-1950, comprising correspondence and related papers covering a wide variety of issues reflecting the Committee's broad terms of reference, for example: maternity hospitals, midwifery, female circumcision, pregnancy in wartime, maternal mortality and nutrition in pregnancy. It should be noted however, that much of the material included in the series appears to have been placed here in error simply because it relates to the external affairs of the College. As well as containing records of the External Affairs Committee, this fonds also has records related to the general external affairs of the college. Some of these records are concerned with obstetrics and gynaecology during the period of the Second World War.

Published report of the Joint Working Party of the RCOG and Royal College of General Practitioners on training for obstetrics and gynaecology for general practitioners, 1981.

Memorandum by Eardley Holland, October 1927, on the desirability of a clinical examination in obstetrics and gynaecology as part of the Final Examination of the Conjoint Board of Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons, to which is attached a report of a meeting of teachers in obstetrics and gynaecology held in June 1927 to discuss the same subject.

Papers of Bethel Solomons, 1935-1942, including Bethel's survey of pathology treatments of the fallopian tube and comprising c.60 responses to a questionnaire compiled by him, and papers comprising an exchange of letters with Victor Bonney on ovarian cysts and myomectomy.

Papers of John Chassar Moir, 1922-1973, including rough notes and case notes; copies of articles and offprints on ergot, 1935-1964; ms and original tracings and photographs, 1954-1955; correspondence, chiefly relating to ergot, including with H W Dudley, 1930-1973; papers relating to the opening of the new Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' building (Sussex Place), 1960; papers relating editing Munro Kerr's Operative Obstetrics, 1957-1965; papers relating to Moir's presidential address as president of the obstetrics and gynaecology section of the Royal Society of Medicine, entitled 'Men I have known', 1962-1963; photographs including group photographs of members of the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and papers relating to the Gynaecological Visiting Society including rules, list of members and photograph of members, 1955.

Copy of Lawson's "The export of British obstetric traditions", a Hugh McLaren lecture delivered to the Birmingham and Midland Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society in 1991, and communications on the subject from C A Carlaw, Olive Frost FRCOG, Hugh Philpott FRCOG, and Coralie Rendle-Short FRCOG.

Private case records of Keith Vernon Bailey, bound in one volume, relating to cases treated by Bailey at Altrincham General Hospital, Cheshire, during 1933.

Letter dated August 24, 1976, from Douglas M Haines to C J Dewhurst, PRCOG, describing how the gavel presented by Emil Novak was made from wood from the house of Ephraim McDowell of Kentucky, USA (McDowell performed the first successful ovariotomy in 1809). Included are facsimiles of papers relating to McDowell, and an explanatory leaflet.

Photocopies of papers relating to the dispute between Professor Wendy Diane Savage with the London Hospital and the Tower Hamlets Health Authority, 1985-1986, in regard to the enquiry into Professor Savage's competence.