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Young, Thomas ( 1730 -1783)
GB 0120 MSS.5103-5107 · c 1770

Holograph notes taken down by [Sir] Charles Blagden [1748-1820] when a student at Edinburgh University, from Thomas Young's lectures on midwifery .

Blagden , Sir , Charles , 1748-1820 , Knight , physician
GB 0120 GC/56 · Collection · 1906-1938

Papers of Norah Woodman, 1906-1938, comprising an account of her training as a nurse in 1906; miscellaneous material on the Lambeth Infirmary/Hospital, including annual reports, 1921-1938; financial statements of the Parish of St Mary, Lambeth Board of Guardians, 1910-1929.

Woodman , Norah Blanche , b 1885 , nurse
GB 0120 GC/93 · Collection · 1912-1944

Papers of Wathen Ernest Waller and his sister Dorothy, 1912-1944, notably illustrated typescript account of service in Iraq, 1916-1918; inventory for insurance purposes of house, including contents of surgery; materials relating to Miss Waller's work in the Red Cross and the Voluntary Aid Detachment, 1912-1920.

Waller , Wathen Ernest , d 1958 Waller , Dorothy , d 1986
GB 0120 MSS.4920-4923, 6113-6116 · 1770-1820

Personal papers of François Verdeil, including correspondence and Clinical Case books, 1787-1820. In addition to the case books, the correspondence mainly relate to his treatment of patients, with some letters relating to the treatment of his wife. There are also some administrative papers concerning the establishment of a Collège de Médecine at Lausanne.

Verdeil , François , 1747-1832 , physician
GB 0120 GC/239 · c 1905-1910

Four volumes of notes made by E J Thomas from lectures to trainee nurses at the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum, Bromley by Bow, East London, c 1905-1910.

Thomas , E J , fl 1905-1910 , student nurse
GB 0120 PP/FGS · 1908-1980

Papers of Frederick Gordon Spear, 1908-1980. These papers fall naturally into several distinct groups; items pertaining to his radiological research conducted in Cambridge at the Strangeways Laboratory, materials about the Strangeways Laboratory as an institution, presumably accumulated during his many years as deputy director, papers relating to his connections with other bodies associated with radiology, such as the Hospital Physicists Association and the British Institute of Radiology, of which he was president in 1961, publications and unpublished papers by him, and also some publications by others on subjects related to the work he was doing.

A very small amount of material, not classifiable under these headings, has been put together in a 'Personal' section.

While Spear originally studied tropical medicine, and spent some time at the Baptist Mission Hospital at Yakusu in the Belgian Congo in the early 1920s this aspect of his career is not represented in these papers.

Received along with Spear's papers were a number of notebooks formerly belonging to his first wife Ada Louisa Sowerby, which she kept during her nurse and midwifery training in London in the later 1920s.

Spear , Frederick Gordon , 1895-1980 , radiologist
GB 0120 SA/SMO · 1856-1998

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.

The Society of Medical Officers of Health x The Association of Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health x The Incorporated Society of Medical Officers of Health x The Society of Community Medicine x The Society of Public Health Limited x The Society of Public Health x The Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene and Society of Public Health
GB 0120 PP/SHA · 1921-2001

Midwifery records of Gertrude Mary Ethel Shannon constituting a relatively full record of midwifery training in the 1920s, and thus quite unusual. They are also of interest as Mrs Shannon trained under the pioneer medical woman Annie McCall at the Clapham Maternity Hospital (which was later renamed after Dr McCall), who supplied her with a testimonial (PP/SHA/1) and signed the certificates, PP/SHA/5/1-2. The exercise book includes notes on lectures by Dr McCall. The Central Midwives Board certificate is signed by Sir Francis Champneys.

Shannon , Gertrude Ethel Mary , 1896-1998 , nee Harris , midwife
GB 0120 RAMC · 17th century - 20th century

Reports, diaries, memoirs, photographs and memorabilia given to the Royal Army Medical Corps Museum and Library by former officers and men of the Corps. Some date back to Marlborough's campaigns of the late 17th century; there is also material relating to the continuing European and Imperial conflicts of the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Crimean War (1854-1856), the Boer War and the Balkan conflicts of the early 20th century, the two World Wars, the Korean War and other smaller conflicts thereafter.

Royal Army Medical Corps
GB 0120 GC/236 · 1848-1987

Personal and family papers of Dame Rosalind Paget, 1851-1952, including minutes, correspondence, draft articles, accounts, photographs, ephemera and scrapbooks relating to Nursing Notes, 1887-1987 and papers relating to the Rosalind Paget Trust Fund set up to support midwives and the midwifery profession, 1919-1984.

Paget , Dame , Rosalind , 1855-1948 , nurse and midwife
GB 0120 MSS.8597-8603 · 1941-2008

Four lecture notebooks of Hedwig (Hedy) Lehmann when she was a medical student, covering the period 1942-1945. These items shed light on the curriculum and teaching methods in nursing training in England during the Second World War period. With additional original and copy documents relating to H Lehmann and her nursing career, and transcript of an interview H Lehmann gave to historians Sybille Baumbach and Beate Meyer in London May 1991 investigating the history of the Jewish community in Hamburg during the years up to and including the Second World War.

Lehmann , Hedwig , 1919-2002 , nurse
Nursing Certificates
GB 0120 GC/90 · Collection · 1907-1939

Nursing certificates issued to various individuals, 1918-1939, with associated documents.

Unknown
GB 0120 GC/202 · 1935-1941

Central Midwives Board register of cases kept by N E Hains, 1935-1941, in Gloucester (Feb-Aug 1935), Hereford (Jan-Mar 1936), Farnham Common (Apr 1936-Mar 1938) and Horsham (May 1938-Oct 1941). The register is a standard pre-printed volume produced by the Central Midwives Board showing patients' names and addresses, date of expected confinement, numbers of previous labours and miscarriages, date and hour of birth, and details of doctor assisting, patients' conditions, drugs or other aid given. Under 'date and time of midwives arrival', the information for cases 1-45 is of admittal or transfer to labour ward, but thereafter times and dates are given alone, which may imply that these were home confinements.

Hains , Nora E , fl 1935-1941 , midwife
GB 0120 MSS.5471-5484, 6930 and 8991-9109 · 1847-1905 and undated; also copies, taken during the 1970s, of items dated 1827-1970 and undated

The collection chiefly comprises correspondence by Florence Nightingale, either in original or in copy form. The date-span covers the whole of her life and the subjects range from her attempts to become a nurse, service in the Crimea and subsequent work reforming the training and practice of nursing, through her other concerns such as Indian sanitation, cottage hospitals and the use of medical statistics, to personal and family matters. Well-represented correspondents include her family (particularly her sister Parthenope and brother-in-law Sir Harry Verney), Sir William Aitken (1825-1892), Professor of Pathology at the Army Medical School; George Hanby De'ath (c.1862-1901), Medical Officer of Health for Buckingham; William Farr (1807-1883), statistician; Miss Louisa Gordon, Matron at St Thomas' Hospital; Miss Amy Hughes, Superintendent of the Nurses' Co-operation; Sir John Henry Lefroy (1817-1890); Charles C. Plowden of the Sanitary Department of the India Office; and Mary Clarke Mohl (1793-1883). In addition, there is twentieth century material relating to Nightingale's legacy such as photographs of her grave (at MS.9101) and administrative papers relating to the compilation of A calendar of the letters of Florence Nightingale (Oxford, 1977) by Sue Goldie (MSS.9106-9109).

Nightingale , Florence , 1820-1910 , nursing reformer
GB 0120 GC/165 · Collection · 1915-1919

Dorothy Newhall papers: Diaries and photograph album of service as a nurse in the Serbian Army and Sanitary Inspector with the Serbian Relief Fund, World War One.

Newhall , Dorothy Minnie , 1884-1975 , nurse
GB 0120 GC/208 · 1987

Letters received by Dr Anne Summers (formerly of Wellcome Unit Oxford) in 1987, in response to a broadcast on Woman's Hour (BBC Radio), and an article published in Nursing Times; material in connection with the conference 'Memories of Health and Caring', Morley College, London, April 1987.

The letters contain accounts of individuals' experiences of health care they and their families received prior to the inception of the National Health Service (and some accounts by health care professionals), ranging from brief anecdotes to several pages of reminiscences.

The conference papers include list of attendees, financial arrangements, copies of newspaper articles and correspondence.

Summers , Anne
Lowder, William (d 1801)
GB 0120 MSS.2665-2666, 3332-3337 and 7789 · 1780-1805

Lectures in Midwifery by William Lowder, 1780-1805, in some cases collaborating with John Haighton.

Lowder , William , fl 1778-1801 , obstetrician Haighton , John , 1755-1823 , physiologist
GB 0120 GC/258 · 1912-1925

Papers of Mary Ethel Corry Knocker,1912-1925, including unpublished typescript memoir entitled 'Through shadows and sunshine, 1914-1918', diaries, 1912-1921, and memorabilia, including photographs, 1912-1925, mainly relating to her nursing training and service as a nurse on the Western Front during the First World War.

Love , Mary Ethel Corry , 1883-1970 , nee Knocker , nurse and midwife
Keess, Ivy ([1885-1953])
GB 0120 GC/78 · [1909-1937]

Papers of Ivy Keess including degree certificates, testimonials, photographs, [1909-1937].

Keess , Ivy , [1885-1953] , medical missionary
Jones, Robert (1807-1843)
GB 0120 MSS.6061-6062 · 1826-1840

Correspondence and papers of Robert Jones relating to his work as House Surgeon and Apothecary of the Denbighshire Infirmary and General Dispensary, 1826-1828, and to his studies in Dublin at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Meath Hospital 1836-1837.

Jones , Robert , 1807-1843 , surgeon and apothecary to the Denbighshire Infirmary
GB 0120 MSS.1180-1218, 1233, 2048-2069, 2802-2819, 3014-3072, 3587-3588, 3662-3663, 4220, 4257, 4302-4306, 4487-4489, 5222-5249 and 7966 · 1680-1877

The collection comprises correspondence, writings and administrative material relating to the Jenner family, particularly Dr. Edward Jenner (pioneer of smallpox vaccination) and the associated Black and Davies families, 1680-1877.

The material on Edward Jenner includes papers relating to organisations set up in the aftermath of his vaccination discoveries: the National Vaccine Establishment, the Royal Jennerian Society and the London Vaccine Institution.

Black family Black , George Charles , 1723-1775 Black , Mary , 1730-1810 Davies , Anne , 1741-1812 Davies , William , 1741-1817 Davies , William , 1769-1849 Davies family Head , Henry , 1664-1739 Jenner family Jenner , Edward , 1749-1823 , surgeon and pioneer of smallpox vaccination Jenner , Elizabeth , fl.1706 Jenner , Henry , 1737-1798 Jenner , Henry , 1767-1851 Jenner , Stephen , 1645-1727 Jenner , Stephen , 1702-1754
Jenner , Stephen , 1732-1797 Jenner , Thomas , 1687-1768 Jenner , George Charles , 1767-1846
London Vaccine Institution. Mockler , Frederick Murray , Charles , d.1847 National Vaccine Establishment Royal Jennerian Society Seely family Seely , Elizabeth , d.1804 Seely , Robert , 1714-1759
GB 0120 GP/58 · 2000-2004

Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Dr Stefan Cembrowicz with elderly general practitioners in the Bristol area, Dr Freddie Morgan, formerly Morgenbesser, Oct 2000, and Dr Ivor Ernest Doney, 2004.

Cembrowicz , Stefan , fl 2000-2004 , researcher
Insley, Nellie (fl 1915)
GB 0120 GC/22 · Collection · 1914-1915

'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.'

Insley , Nellie , fl 1915
Hunterian Society of London
GB 0120 MSS.5520-5624, 7887-7888 & 8421-8423 · 1676-1989

Records and collection of manuscripts of the Hunterian Society, 1676-1989. The manuscript collection includes extensive letters and papers relating to the Hunter and Baillie families.

Hunterian Society of London
Hunt, Rosa Louise
GB 0120 GC/40 · 1915-1916

'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.

Hunt , Rosa Louise , fl 1915
Hood, Basil (1876-1978)
GB0120 GC/21 · Collection · 1910-1941

Two volumes of notes on St Marylebone Infirmary (later St Marylebone Hospital and then St Charles' Hospital), relating to Hood's period as Medical Superindendent, 1910-1941, compiled by Dr Hood in the 1950s[?], with indexes by his daughter Mrs L Ross.

Hood , Basil , 1876-1978 , medical superintendent
GB 0120 PP/NGH · c 1934-1963

Papers of Noel Gordon Harris including correspondence; records of involvement in teaching and policy-making in psychiatry, and in treatment, especially of epilepsy, c 1934-1963.

Harris , Noel Gordon , 1897-1963 , psychiatrist
GB 0120 PP/HAM · 1886-1971

Papers of Lillias Anna Hamilton including correspondence, writings and other papers from career including as personal physician to the Amir of Afghanistan, 1894-1896, Warden of Studley College, Warwickshire (training women for careers in agriculture and horticulture), and doctor in Serbia in 1915 with the Wounded Allies Relief Committee; photographs of Afghanistan. There is little in this collection of specifically medical interest, but it gives some indication of the life, career and varied interests of an early woman doctor.

Hamilton , Lillias Anna , 1858-1925 , physician
Hall-Tomkin, Dr Harry
GB 0120 GC/276 · 1943-1957

Papers of Harry Hall-Tomkin, 1943-1957, including typescript diary and two scrap books compiled by Hall-Tomkin relating to his work as a senior medical officer with the Allied Expeditionary Force in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, Jun 1944-Aug 1945, including photographs, postcards, Allied notices, captured German documents and newspaper cuttings, and a description of Belsen concentration camp. Also papers relating to his invention, the Exeter Nursing Aid for invalid patients, 1957-1959.

Tomkin , Harry , Hall- , [1900-1977] , physician
Hale, Dr Geoffrey (b 1905)
GB 0120 GP/23 · 1893-1970

Papers of Dr Geoffrey Edward Hale including practice cashbooks 1893-1904, obituary and notes on his practice by his wife; papers of his son, Geoffrey Hale, including practice partnership accounts, 1933-1970, record of daily consultations, 18 Oct 1960, articles, drafts and lecture notes.

Hale , Geoffrey Edward , 1866-1905 , general practitioner , father of Geoffrey Hale Hale , Geoffrey , b1905 , general practitioner , son of Geoffrey Edward Hale
GB 0120 MSS.5328-5355, 8280-8282, 8285-8287 & 8662-8663 · c 1937-1946

Papers and research notes of Alec Haggis relating to medical history. Many relate to Haggis's research into medical licensing in England and Wales prior to the Act of 1858.

Haggis , Alec William James , 1889-1946 , museum staff
GB 0120 PP/RKF · 1900-1984

Papers of Rudolph Karl Freudenberg and Gerda Freudenberg relating to psychiatric practice at Netherne Hospital, Freudenberg's involvement with various professional bodies, and his writings on psychiatry, 1930s-1970s.

A. Rudolph Karl Freudenberg's Personalia

1 Personal papers and correspondence; 2 Offprints and publications; 3 Unpublished general papers; 4 Conferences; 5 Files of rough notes; 6 Films

B Netherne Hospital

1 Published articles and reports; 2 External reports on Netherne; 3 Unpublished articles on Netherne (excluding training); 4 Material for training; 5 Netherne Magazines; 6 Committees and meetings; 7 Printed guides; 8 League of Friends and other voluntary help; 9 General planning and memoranda; 10 Day hospitals and hostels; 11 Occupational and industrial therapy; 12 Rehabilitation (wider than purely industrial); 13 Questionnaires and forms; 14 Censuses; 15 Art; 16 Other directly Netherne material; 17 Photographs and slides; 18 Audio tapes; 19 Films; 20 Related material - not specifically Netherne

C Department of Health and Social Security

D Local related bodies

1 Cheshire Home, Wimbledon; 2 Schizophrenia Research Fund; 3 Surrey Council for Mental health; 4 Surrey Group of National Schizophrenia Fellowship; 5 Reigate and District Association for Mental Health; 6 National Association of League of Hospital Friends; 7 Disablement Income Group, Godalming; 8 Share Community Ltd; 9 Surrey Resettlement Ltd; 10 West Lambeth Community Health Council; 11 Industrial Therapy Organisation (Epsom) Ltd; 12 London Borough of Sutton: review of Health and Welfare Services; 13 Orpington Mental Health Association

E Other bodies

1 King Edward's Hospital Fund; 2 Mental Health Research Fund; 3 National Association for Mental Health; 4 Royal Medico-Psychological Association later Royal College of Psychiatrists; 5 Medical Research Council; 6 General Nursing Council 7 The Council for Music in Schools; 8 Council of Europe; 9 World Health Organisation

F General offprints

Freudenberg , Rudolph Karl , 1908-1983 , psychiatrist Freudenberg , Gerda , 1906-1995 , née Vorster , physician
Drabble, Mary Louisa
GB 0120 GC/227 · 1917-1931

Papers of Mary Louisa Drabble, 1917-1931, comprising notebooks as a medical student at the University of Edinburgh, 1920-1925, testimonials; certificates; photograph; personalia. The collection also contains nursing notebooks of her sister Margery Drabble, was a nurse at Guy's Hospital during early 1920s (notebooks spanning 1922-1925).

Drabble , Mary Louisa , 1900-1972 , general practitioner
GB 0120 WTI/DON · 1895-1951

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.

Donovan , Charles , 1863-1951 , physician and specialist in tropical medicine Skelland , Amy Anna Caroline , 1883-1972 , nurse
GB 0120 GC/249 · 1989-1990

Transcripts of 162 interviews with medical and nursing staff for a study on inter-professional relations between doctors and nurses (covering attitudes to patients, characteristics of good/bad staff, responsibility for medical decisions, training, etc.), 1989-1990.

Soothill , Keith Mackay , Lesley
GB 0120 PP/AWD · 1900-1969

Papers of Allen Daley, mainly from the period after Daley's retirement in 1952 until his death in 1969. They comprise correspondence, committee papers, reports, lecture notes and photographs relating to many aspects of public health and community medicine, including other professions in the public health field and health education. Of particular note is the almost complete set of his lecture notes, articles and speeches spanning his career and retirement (see C.3), many of which include other information relating to public health gathered by Daley for the purposes of writing the speech or article. Also, after his retirement he reviewed nearly 600 book and journal articles (see C.7).

Daley , Sir , William Allen , 1887-1969 , Knight , public health officer
GB 0120 MSS.1916-1917 · 1819-1843

Midwifery. Obstetrical case books for 1819-1825 and 1833-1843. Compiler's holograph MSS.

Crosse , John Green , 1790-1850
GB 0120 MSS.7988-7989 · 2002

Recollections of Diana Cooke's nursing career during and shortly after the Second World War, with photographs. Introduction by M A L Cooke. Ts, spiral bound, 2002.

Cooke , Diana Blanche Bellenden , fl 1940-1950 , née Clarke , nurse
GB 0120 PP/COO · 1812-c 1960

Papers of Sir Albert Ruskin Cook and Lady Katharine Cook including correspondence, 1812-1951, giving many details of the Cooks' life and work in Uganda. There is also a large collection of diaries, 1855-1951, a number of photographs of Uganda and holidays abroad, c 1896-1930s, family and personal papers, 1882-1951, a small amount of printed material, [1896-1947], and microfilms of records held at the Albert R Cook Library of Medicine at the Makerere University Medical School, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, covering 1897-1960s and including patient case notes and registers 1897-1920.

Cook , Sir , Albert Ruskin , 1870-1951 , Knight , physician
Cook , Lady , Katherine , 1863-1938 , nurse
Clewett, Pamela Mary
GB 0120 GC/41 · 1939-1945

'Reminiscences of the Hospital at the Corner', St George's, Hyde Park, by Pamela Mary Clewett as a probationer nurse, 1939-1945. This is an autobiographical account of what it was like training as a nurse at St George's and elsewhere during the war years.

Clewett , Pamela Mary , fl 1939-1945 , nurse
GB 0120 GC/200 · 1924-[1980]

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.

Chalke , Herbert Davies , 1897-1979 , Medical Officer of Health
GB 0120 MSS.8185-8186, 8188-8189, 8303-8307, 8321, 8524-8525, 8539 · Early 20th century

Miscellaneous historical essays, written by individuals employed by or associated with the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Authors include Alban Doran (1849-1927), Charles Thompson (1862-1943) and Marion Spielmann (1858-1948).

Doran , Alban Henry Griffith , 1849-1917 , surgeon Thompson , Charles John Samuel , 1862-1943 , physician and local historian
Spielmann , Marion Harry Alexander , 1858-1948 , art historian Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
GB 0120 SA/BSH · 1914-1957

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..

British Social Hygiene Council
GB 0120 MSS.6915-6927 · 18th century - 19th century

Manuscripts from the collection of the British Medical Association, formerly held in the BMA Library, Tavistock Square, London. The manuscripts were numbered and catalogued at the BMA, with two exceptions among these papers - however the numbering of surviving documents is not consecutive, so that the original collection must have contained at least 26 catalogued items and an unknown number of unrecorded acquisitions. Former BMA MSS.1-6 (transferred at the same time as the manuscripts described here) are now GC/140; one fugitive BMA manuscript was purchased separately and is now MS. 6881. The location of the remainder is not known. The contents mainly comprise transcripts of medical lectures and case notes.

British Medical Association
British Medical Association
GB 0120 SA/BMA · 1888-1988

Papers of the British Medical Association compring files [1915-1960], from the following subject series: Medico-Political, Science, Groups, Ethics, Public Health, Hospitals, Organisation. Also incomplete set of copy minutes of Council, Committees and of the Annual Representatives' Meetings and Special Representatives' Meetings, [1907-1982].

British Medical Association
GB 0120 GC/80 · 1912-1927

Photographs, certificates and other memorabilia from Elizabeth Batten's nursing career mainly at the Royal Free Hospital, c 1907-1927.

Batten , Elizabeth , 1884-1984 , nurse
GB 0120 SA/AHR · 1897-1984

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.

Association of Health and Residential Care Officers National Association of Workhouse Masters and Matrons National Association of Masters and Matrons of Poor Law Institutions National Association of Administrators of Local Government Institutions/Establishments Association of Health and Welfare Administrators Association of Hospital and Residential Care Officers
Addis, Robina (1900-1986)
GB 0120 PP/ADD · 1917-1986

Papers reflecting the many different areas of Robina Addis's life and work, including her training and research; her involvement with both British and international societies and associations in the mental health field; visits abroad; lecturing, teaching and writing. After her official retirement she continued her involvement with the National Association for Mental Health, but was also able to extend her interests by working for the Save the Children Fund and other organisations, and these activities are also reflected in the collection.

There are, however, many gaps in the papers. While RSA's early training and research are covered, her work in child guidance in the prewar and Second World War periods are represented mainly by lecture notes and publications. Her long career in the NAMH is chronologically well covered from 1950 onwards, but the quantity of material is not great and it can be assumed that most of the papers were retained in the Association's internal filing system. With certain exceptions most of the papers representing RSA's other activities date only from the 1960s onwards and it is impossible to say what proportion of the total survives. The sequences of lecture notes and publications, do, however, seem to be fairly comprehensive.

Addis , Robina Scott , 1900-1986 , psychiatric social worker
GB 0120 MSS.5410-5419 and 7205-7216 · 1809-1970

Papers of the Ackland and Littlewood families, 1809-1970. The items in this collection can broadly be categorised as follows: day-books and a diary recording visits to patients and medicines prescribed; patient accounts ledgers; apprenticeship indentures of William Ackland; recipe books and medical notebooks; casebook, medical notes and correspondence of Charles Kingsley Ackland; memoirs, correspondence, photographs, diplomas and miscellaneous papers of the Ackland family.

Ackland , William , fl 1791-1867 , general practitioner Ackland , William Henry , fl 1825-1898 , general practitioner Ackland , Charles Kingsley , 1859-1940 , general practitioner Littlewood , Martin Wentworth , 1888-1972 , general practitioner