Guide to the Collections of Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2570 - M2574
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Title
- Collections of Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1882 - 1984
- Collection Number
- M2570 - M2574
- Extent
- 167 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The Australian Joint Copying Project filmed selectively from the papers of: Richard Philps of his experiences as a Royal Air Force Medical Officer in POW camps in Indonesia; physiologist Professor Ernest B. Verney, including manuscripts written at University of Melbourne; surgeon Alfred H. Tubby kept while serving with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; Sir Ernst Chain; physiologist Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer; Grantley Dick-Read; Professor Sir George and Lady Pickering relating to a visit to Australia; Marie C.C. Stopes; Sir Edward Mellanby; Professor Percy C.C. Garnham; Sir Leonard Rogers; Abortion Law Reform Association; Lister Institute;
14. Research 1957-1974 of Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the Wellcome Collection Library.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1989 (AJCP Reels: M2570 - M2574). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Contemporary Medical Archives Centre. Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BP, England. For more information see the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (http://archives.wellcomelibrary.org/).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn780798] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Advisory Statement
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this Finding Aid contains material and descriptive information which may be considered culturally sensitive and may cause distress, including names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. This Finding Aid contains terms that reflect authors' views or those of the historical period, but which may not be considered appropriate today. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 109, pp.39-40.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) built up a medical museum and library which was opened to the public in 1949. The Institute (so called since 1968) houses the library and the academic research centre. The Contemporary Medical Archives Centre was set up in 1979.
Item Descriptions
Fonds G.C.25. Louisa Martindale, 1939 - 1947
3 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2570.
Related Materials
See also: obituaries in BMJ and Lancet, Feb. 1966 and W.I.H.M. Western Ms Collections. WMs 3470
Subjects
Dunedin, New Zealand; New Zealand; Surgeons.
Biographical / Historical
Louisa Martindale CRE (1872-1966) was born in London, but spent her early years in Germany and Switzerland. She attended Royal Holloway College and the London School of Medicine for Women. From 1906 onwards she was in private practice in Brighton and in 1911 became the senior surgeon at the New Sussex Hospital. In 1923 she set up in private practice in London. She was active in the British Medical Women's Federation and was for five years secretary of the Medical Women's International Association. She was a pioneer of radium treatment for uterine and ovarian cancer in women.
Series B. Medical Women's International Association, 1939 - 1947
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subseries B 1-10. Correspondence as President, March 1939 - July 1947
3 itemsCorrespondence, June 1939 - October 1939 (File B 3)
2 itemsCorrespondence of Sec. Mm. Montreuil Straus arranged by country or organisation, March 1939 - July 1947 (File B 14)
11 itemsDr Marie J. Crowe (Kensington, London) to MWIA Secretary, (c May 1947) (Item)
Re that she wishes to attend MWIA congress in Amsterdam as Australian delegate.
The Secretary to Dr Crowe that as Australian representative she will have a seat on Council, 21 May 1947 (Item)
The Secretary to Dr Crowe requesting she forward a copy of the Australian national corresponding Secretary's report, 10 July 1947 (Item)
Dr Stevenson (London) to Dr Montreuil Straus, c. April 1939 (Item)
Re that they are unable to attend meeting in Paris as New Zealand representative.
Fonds G.C.51. Richard Philps, 1983
Personal account of Richard Philps' experiences as a doctor in several working POW camps in Indonesia during WW2 was based on notes he made soon after the war.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2570.
Subjects
Atomic bomb; Changi, Singapore; Japanese in Dutch East Indies; Japanese in Singapore; Philps, Richard; Prisoners of war; Surabaya, Indonesia: POW camp; Semarang, Indonesia.
Biographical / Historical
Richard Philps MBE (1914-1995) graduated in medicine in 1940 and joined the Royal Army Medical School. He was a prisoner of war in Java, Ambon and Singapore from 1942 to 1945. After the War he was a pathologist at University College Hospital, London. His book Prisoner doctor was published in 1996.
Prisoner Doctor: an account of the experiences of a Royal Air Force Medical Officer during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, 1942 to 1945. (131p.), 1983 (File)
Voyage to Singapore in January 1942; ordered to Java; fall of Singapore and Japanese invasion of Java; life in camps at Surabaya and at Semarany; illicit obtaining of medical supplies; voyage to Haruku to make landing strip - insanitary conditions at camp, dysentery and native remedies used; food rations; deficiency diseases; producing yeast; move to Ambon; smuggling of food into camp; return to Java on Maros Maru (half the prisoners died); journey to Singapore; working in docks; interned in Changi jail; hearing news of atomic bombs and capitulation of Japan; return to England.
Includes map of journeys, four water colours of Haruku, and photograph of Major in charge of Haruku camp, Sgt Mori Cassiama, interpreter, and senior British Officer. Squadron Leader Pitts.
Fonds G.C.72. Prof Ernest Basil Verney, 1957 - 1965
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2570.
Subjects
Melbourne, Victoria; University of Melbourne; Physiologists; Verney, Ernest, Prof.
Biographical / Historical
Prof (Ernest) Basil Verney FRCP FRS (1894-1967) was born in Cardiff and educated at Tonbridge School and Downing College, Cambridge. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps (1918-19) and the East London Hospital for Children before joining the Department of Physiology at University College, London, in 1921. In 1926 he became Professor of Pharmacology at University College. He moved to Cambridge in 1934 and was Professor of Pharmacology from 1946 to 1961. In his retirement he spent three years at the University of Melbourne.
Miscellaneous accounts, published and unpublished of experimental work, 1962 - 1965 (File 4)
Includes: Demonstrations: the isolated perfused adrenal of the dog, by E.B. Verney and Lesley Williamson. (Dept of Physiology, University of Melbourne) Abstract of paper presented at meeting held University of Melbourne. November 1962. Reports on research project 'Role of bronchial circulation in modifying the bronchomotor and vascular responses of the perfused isolated lungs of the dog', 1965 and 1964. (21p.)
Melbourne: luncheon and dinner parties, 1947 (File 15)
Includes: list of luncheon guests, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 6 February 1957; list of dinner guests, Nuffield Foundation Australian Advisory Committee, 9 February 1957; notes for speeches. (17p.)
Fonds G.C.74. Prof Archibald Vivian Hill, c.1946-1950
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2570.
Subjects
Physiologists.
Biographical / Historical
Archibald Vivian Hill OBE FRS (1886-1977) was born in Bristol and was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a research fellow at Cambridge from 1910 to 1920 when he became Professor of Physiology at Manchester University. He moved to University College, London, in 1923 and from 1926 to 1951 was Foulerton research fellow of the Royal Society. He was the author of several books and was active in many organisations, including the Royal Society and the British Physiological Society. He was one of the founding fathers of biophysics and with Otto Meyerhof won the Nobel Prize in 1923.
Fonds G.C. 87. Col Alfred Herbert Tubby, 1915
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2570.
Subjects
Alexandria, Egypt; Gallipoli, Turkey; New Zealand; Surgeons; Tubby, Alfred.
Biographical / Historical
Alfred Herbert Tubby CB, CMG, MS, FRCS (1862-1930) was educated at Christ's Hospital and London University. He was appointed Senior Demonstrator in Physiology at Guy's Hospital. In 1898 he became surgeon at Westminster National Orthopaedic Hospital and held the post for over 30 years. He was the author of a number of works including Deformities; a treatise on orthopedic surgery (1986). A major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Tubby was seconded to the British Mediterranean Force in 1915 and was stationed at Alexandria. He wrote of his wartime experiences in Consulting surgeon in the Middle East (1920).
Diary notes, 20 June 1915 - 31 October 1915 (File 1)
Gives more details than the published account; based on an original diary.
Includes: descriptions of voyage to Egypt; activities of Australian troops in Alexandria - 'Les enfants terribles of our forces'; treatment of wounded from Gallipoli in hospitals; insufficient medical supplies; journey to Gallipoli and life under fire; fierce fighting at ANZAC; wounded taken onto hospital ships; report on Clan MacGillivray, a former ANZAC troop ship as possible hospital ship; return to Alexandria and visits to Australian and New Zealand hospitals; Tubby orders 12 New Zealand men, who had been invalided home, to return to duty since they had recovered while awaiting transport; contrast between fitness of British and ANZAC men; problem of typhoid carriers returning to Australia.
(Typescript carbon copy 139p.)
Fonds PP/CRA. James Craigie, 1950 - 1953
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2570.
Subjects
Australia.
Biographical / Historical
James Craigie OBE, FRS (1899-1978) was born in Arbroath, Scotland, and was educated at the University of St Andrew's and University College, Dundee. In 1931 he migrated to Canada to become a research assistant at the Connaught Laboratories at the University of Toronto. He was secretary of the School of Hygiene (1935-45) and professor of virus infections (1946-47). During his Canadian years he studied a number of viruses, including typhoid and poliomyelitis. In 1947 he returned to Britain and joined the staff of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund where he did work on the preservation of tumour cells after freezing. He retired in 1964.
Correspondence with William Ewart Gye, January 1950 - November 1953 (File Items no. 56-66)
6 itemsArchival History
Filmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
William Ewart Gye (1884 - 1952) was born William E Bullock but changed his name to that of his first wife in 1919. He was an exponent of the virus hypothesis of cancer and Director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 1936-1949. On his retirement he went to Perth, WA, on health grounds, but was able to continue his experimental work there together with his second wife, Ida Mann.
Obituary notice for W.E. Gye written by J. Craigie and covering correspondence with Nature (7p.), October 1952 (Item 65)
Fonds PP/EBC. Sir Ernst Boris Chain, 1964 - 1976
24 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2570.
Subjects
Auckland, New Zealand; Australia: visits to; Australian National University; Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science; Beecham Research Symposia; Beecham Research Symposia; Chain, Sir Ernest; Dunedin, New Zealand; Florey Memorial Fund; Florey, Sir Howard, 1st Baron; Medical research; Melbourne, Victoria; New Zealand; Sydney, New South Wales ; University of Melbourne.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Ernst Boris Chain FRS (1906-1979) was born in Berlin and graduated in chemistry and physiology from the University of Berlin. In 1933 he migrated to Britain and obtained a position in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University. In 1936 he was persuaded by Howard Florey to join the School of Pathology at Oxford University. The work they did together on penicillin led to their winning the Nobel Prize in 1945. In 1948 Chain moved to Rome where he set up a plant for antibiotic production and did further work on penicillin. From 1961 to 1973 he was Professor of Biochemistry at Imperial College, London.
Series B. Research at Cambridge and Oxford, 1968 - 1969
2 itemsSubseries B 68-72. Death of Lord Florey, February 1968 - March 1969
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
MS and typescript draft for an appreciation (10p.), February 1968 (File B 68)
Includes appreciation given to Australian Associated Press.
Correspondence with Lord Blackett, Royal Society, re establishment of Florey Memorial Fund by Royal Society and Australian National University (23p.), 14 February 1969 - 12 March 1969 (File B 71)
Includes letter from Robert Pocock, BBC and transcript of tape recorded by Lord Florey in Australia c 1965 re his work on penicillin.
Series F. Industrial Consultancies and Collaborative Research, 1969 - 1975
3 itemsArchival History
Filmed selectively.
Beecham Group Ltd.: Correspondence, May 1969 - July 1969 (File F 130-139)
2 itemsCorrespondence S-W, 16 May 1969 (Item F 139)
G.J. Wilkins, Beecham Research Laboratories, (Brentford) re holding symposium on penicillin in Australia and New Zealand in order to boost sales. Includes 'Outline of symposia to be held in Australia, 1970. The semi-synthetic penicillins in hospital and general practice'. (8p.)
Roche Products Ltd, February 1974 - 18 June 1975 (File F 326)
9 itemsSeries J. Visits And Conferences, 1964 - 1975
16 itemsSubseries J 99-111. Aspects of Infection, February 1970 - September 1970
11 itemsBeecham Research Symposia held in Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne, April 1970.
Chain gave opening and closing address at each symposium on 'The semi-synthetic penicillins - an introduction' and 'Prospects in Anti-infective Therapy' respectively. His own conference paper 'Advances in the understanding of the mechanism of penicillin allergy' was published in the proceedings. (J 111) During the visit he addressed various biochemical/medical society meetings on the history of penicillin, and attended various dinners and celebrations.
Archival History
Filmed selectively.
Correspondence with organisers at Beecham, colleagues and friends re conference. Chain's participation contributions, travel arrangements (24p.), September 1969 - January 1970 (File J 100)
Correspondents include: G J Wilkins (London); F Rowland (Moorabbin); Eric Knudsen (London); Bernard Lake (Moorabbin).
Correspondence, February 1970 - June 1970 (File J 101)
Correspondents include: Sir Charles Dodds (London); F Rowland (Moorabbin); A Landa (Agent General, NSW); Asher Joel (Sydney); A J Melrose (Moorabbin). (34p.)
Material re dinner in Auckland, N.Z., 2 April 1970 (File J 102)
10p menu, guest list, his draft speech, correspondence re arrangements from W.G. MacDonald (Beecham's, Auckland)
Correspondence re Hong Kong and Bangkok. Press cuttings re Fiji, 16 March 1970 (File J 104)
2 itemsArchival History
Filmed selectively.
Scientific correspondence with colleagues re visit, 1970 (File J 105)
Items of interest include:
E.G. McQueen (University of Otago, Dunedin) re diagnosis of penicillin allergy.
Douglas D Smith (Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick) re Fleming's work on penicillin.
E.C. to Smith re Fleming.
Filmed selectively.
E.C.'s letters of thanks on return, April 1970 - September 1970 (File J 106)
9 itemsFilmed selectively.
To Sir MacFarlane and Lady Burnet (Kew) re visit to New Guinea and impressions of Australia, 7 May 1970 (Item)
To Sir Hugh Ennor (Canberra) re journey home, visit to CSIRO, impressions of Australia, 7 May 1970 (Item)
Xerox of letters written on behalf of E C by A J Melrose (Beecham's, Moorabbin) to Doctors and officials who met E C on his visit to Papua New Guinea. 31p, 1 May 1970 (File J 107)
Subseries J 152-155. 46th Congress of Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. Canberra, July 1974 - April 1975
4 itemsChain was president, Pharmaceutical Sciences Section and gave presidential address 'The Pharmaceutical Sciences, Government and the People'. (Bibliog. 171)
Correspondence re Congress: travel arrangements, publications, letters of thanks, July 1974 - March 1975 (File J 152)
Correspondents include: Cecil A Gibb (ANU); L F Dodson (Canberra); Dr R.A. Anderson (University of Sydney); I McD Cook (Sydney); Anthony Legg (Kelmscott); G.M. Badger (Canberra). (34p.)
Programme and abstracts of Congress; press statements by Chain; press notices (41p.), January 1975 - April 1975 (File J 153)
Fonds PP/ESS. Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, 1882 - 1934
18 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2571.
Subjects
Dunedin, New Zealand; Gold and Goldfield: Western Australia; Malcolm, John; Martin, Sir Charles; Melbourne, Victoria; New Zealand; Physiologists; Schafer, Sir Edward; Sharpey, Ernest; Singapore; Sydney, New South Wales .
Biographical / Historical
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer FRS (1850-1935) was born in London and educated at University College School and University College, London. He joined the staff of University College in 1871 and was appointed professor of physiology in 1883. He was elected to the chair of physiology at Edinburgh University in 1899 and held the post until 1933. He was one of the founders of the Physiological Society and for 25 years edited the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology. He was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1929-34).
Series B. Correspondence With British Colleagues, 1891 - 1934
7 itemsJ. Argyll Campbell, 22 March 1914 - 28 December 1934 (File B 28)
Comprises: 15 letters to E.S.S. from J Argyll Campbell, (School of Medicine, Singapore; Fremantle and London) Subjects include: administration problems of the school; voyage to Brisbane on Montoro; his research with monkeys; account of the mutiny in Singapore (letter 5, 20 April 1915); news of colleagues; visits to family in Australia; influenza epidemic in Singapore; attendance on Royal Commission to Trengganu.
Madden - Marjoribanks, 26 May 1905 - 27 November 1932 (File B 45)
1 itemFilmed selectively.
12 letters to E.S.S. from John Malcolm, (University of Otago, Dunedin and Aberdeen), 26 May 1905 - 27 November 1932 (Item B 45/2-13)
Subjects include: his lecture course and conditions of work at the university; his research on the pituitary; marriage to Miss Simpson of Dunedin; voyage back to New Zealand with a cage of white rats to be used in experiments on vitamins; membership of Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Stokes - Symes, 9 January 1891 - 28 June 1919 (File B 58)
1 itemFilmed selectively.
10 letters Sir (Thomas Peter) Anderson Stuart, (Dumfries, London, Sydney University, Double Bay) to E.S.S, 9 January 1891 - 28 June 1919 (Item B 58/4-13)
Subjects include: University administration, his research, problems of library provision; sending animal specimens; his health; cost of living after the war.
Series E. Edinburgh Chair Of Physiology, 1914 - 1933
4 itemsSharpey-Schafer Lectureship: Letters in response to the Appeal, 1933 - 29 November 1933 (File)
1 itemArchival History
Filmed selectively.
British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Australia, 1914 (File E 23)
Includes:
E.S.S. complimentary B.A.A.S. pass; January - April 1914 correspondence with Anderson Anderson & Co, London, re accomodation on board Orvieto; plans of Orvieto, Otway and Katori Maru; passenger list of Orvieto; booklet on Orient Line Fleet; ticket; B.A.A.S. 84th Annual Meeting Progamme; Programmes and information booklets for Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide sessions of B.A.A.S.; invitations to receptions and dinners; List of excursions arranged for visiting members of B.A.A.S. and notes on other places of interest [in Victoria]; bill and receipt from Raffles Hotel, Singapore.
40 items. (176p.)
British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Australia, 1914 (File E 24)
6 itemsArchival History
Filmed selectively.
Maps of Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Batavia and Sourabaya were not filmed by the AJCP.
Burns Philp & Co suggested sightseeing itinerary for E.S.S. in Java (3p.), 24 August 1914 (Item E 3/2)
NSW Excursions arranged for members of B.A.A.S. Sydney (78p.), 20 August 1914 - 26 August 1914 (Item E 3/8)
Series P. Personal, 1885 - 1914
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Letters from brother Ernest and sister Victoria, October 1891 - April 1914 (File P 3)
2 itemsLetters and Christmas card to E.S.S. from brother Ernest, (Perth, Gilgerring, Murchison Gold Field, Lawlers Gold Fields, Blackrange), 14 October 1891 - 5 December 1905 (Item P 3/1-9)
Subjects include: Voyage to Fremantle on Gulf of Marlaban; impressions of Fremantle and Perth; discovery of gold at Murchison; employment as carpenter making gates; experience of bush fire; his medical expertise; working on goldfields as carpenter and nursing typhoid patients; plans to return to England; sending pressed flowers and seeds. (30p.)
Cuthbert Cobb (Sandstone) to E. Sharpey-Schafer, 12 April 1914 (Item P 3/10)
Re death of Ernest and local suspicions as to Cobb's knowledge of a will and valuables; contents of Ernest's box - medical textbooks, dental forceps and other medical instruments, carpentry tools, Australian Aboriginal spears, letters, clothing etc; Ernest's character and life in Australia; how Cobb received the news of Ernest's death from Indigenous Australians of Darlot tribe; description of Ernest's illness and death. (30p.)
Series PHO. Photographs, 1882 - 1916
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Anderson Stuart, 1882 (File P 98/PHO 15173)
14.2cm x 10.2cm by Fred Hollyer, London.
Biographical / Historical
Australian physiologist (1856 - 1920)
Anderson Stuart, 1882 (File P 98/PHO 15174)
14.4cm x 10.1cm, Hollyer.
Biographical / Historical
Australian physiologist (1856 - 1920).
Album, 1912 - 1916 (File P 108/PHO 15918)
Filmed selectively.
[p. 26-29] Views of Malaya and Penang, 1913.
[p. 34-43] Views of Adelaide; Dr Barrett, Melbourne; Margaret Brown, Melbourne, Sydney, Toowoomba; Sir David & Lady Hardie, Brisbane; Magnetic Island Townsville, Port Darwin, Singapore, Penang, 1914.
Fonds PP/GDR. Grantley Dick-Read, 1947 - 1959
20 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2572.
Subjects
Australia; Dick-Read, Grantley; Dunedin, New Zealand; Family planning; Gallipoli, Turkey; Melbourne, Victoria; New Zealand; Singapore; Sydney, New South Wales ; University of Melbourne.
Biographical / Historical
Grantley Dick-Read MD DSc (1890-1959) was born at Eccles, Suffolk, and educated at Bishops Stortford College and St John's College, Cambridge. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914 and served at Gallipoli and France. After the War he established a practice at Woking, Sussex, with consulting rooms in London. He was the author of Natural Childbirth (1923) and Revelation of Childbirth (1942) and his books and articles were translated into many languages. He maintained a vast correspondence with mothers, but he had poor relations with the medical establishment and was denied public honours.
Series B. Medical, 1952 - 1958
1 itemCerebral Palsy: notes, cuttings from Sister Joyce Macpherson [Mrs Nott], Western Australia (79p.), 1952 - 1958 (File B 49)
Items of interest include:
Joyce Nott, (Goswells, WA) to D.R. re incidence of cerebral palsy in USA. [19 October 1958].
Report on [birth practices] at King Edward Memorial Hospital Subiaco, WA (3p.) [1956].
Letters to Joyce Macpherson from Western Australian mothers on their experiences of natural or induced/drugged birth. [November 1953].
Sister Covell, (Lightning Ridge) to Macpherson re non incidence of mentally handicapped babies in Lightning Ridge. [7 May 1953].
Newspaper cuttings on drugless childbirth in WA (13p.) [May-June 1952].
Draft articles by Joyce Macpherson detailing her experiences of drugged childbirth and the case for natural childbirth. (typescript with Ms annotations)
Series D. Natural Childbirth Correspondence, 1947 - 1959
17 itemsMothers - British Commonwealth, November 1948 - September 1954 (File D 85)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
New Zealand, c.1947-1956 (File D 94)
Correspondents include: Elsie Brown (Hastings); B.R. Clarke (Hawkes Bay); Miriam Corban (Auckland); G. Dobbs (Wellington); Joan Henderson (Onewhero); M.G. Goodare (Auckland); Eva Hoffman (Auckland); Phyllis Hudson (Gisborne); Norma Jacobs (Christchurch); Frances Judd (Auckland); Jocelyn Martin (Wellington); Joan Matheson (Papakura); J.M. Moody (Masterton); Joyce Nichols (Wellington); Audrey North (Nelson); Jeanne Oliver (Auckland); Joan Pardon (Napier); S.A. Rankin (Napier); Sheila Stewart (Auckland).
Subjects include: their experiences of childbirth, medical practices in New Zealand; doctors and nurses who were sympathetic/antagonistic to Dick-Read's methods; carbon copies of Dick-Read's replies are attached. (99p.)
Mothers - British Commonwealth From 1957: A-G, July 1956 - July 1958 (File D 95)
17 itemsFilmed selectively.
Cecily Anthoness (West Wyalong) to D-R re problems of giving birth in a small country town, 27 February 1958 (Item)
Daphne Calvert-Smith, (Devonport, Tas) to D-R re Australian practice of hospital births, 11 October 1957 (Item)
D-R to Mrs Dunstan re friendship with Cpt Dunstan VC of Lone Pine, 8 March 1957 (Item)
Includes telegram from Dick-Read to Mrs Dunstan. [5 March 1957].
Emma S King (Albert Park) to Dunstan re his visit and efforts to bring D-R to Australia to lecture, 22 December 1956 (Item)
D-R to Dunstan requesting he visit Mrs King; he is unlikely to get to Australia, 28 November 1956 (Item)
Mothers - British Commonwealth From 1957: H-M, March 1957 - November 1958 (File D 96)
21 itemsFilmed selectively.
Collen Jenkins (Gillenbah) to D-R re reactions to natural childbirth in Australia, 21 April 1958 (Item)
Colleen Jenkins (Gillenbah) to D-R re possible formation of Natural Childbirth Association in NSW., 10 December 1957 (Item)
Colleen Jenkins (Gillenbah) to D-R that she wishes to start a Natural Childbirth Association in NSW., 26 August 1957 (Item)
Colleen Jenkins (Gillenbah) to D-R re her childbirth experiences and opposition of medical staff to natural methods, 25 July 1957 (Item)
Mothers - British Commonwealth From 1957: P-R, July 1957 - February 1958 (File D 97)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Mothers - British Commonwealth From 1957: S-W, July 1957 - October 1958 (File D 98)
13 itemsFilmed selectively.
Doctors - British Commonwealth From 1947: A-C, April 1947 - April 1959 (File D 188)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Doctors - British Commonwealth From 1947: Co-D, February 1955 - January 1957 (File D 189)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence with Dr Enid Cook (Christchurch), 22 February 1955 - 14 February 1957 (Item)
Re D-R reception by the Pope; natural childbirth in Australia; D-R film to be shown in New Zealand. Includes correspondence with Dr Peter Cook, London (23 letters)
Doctors - British Commonwealth From 1947: E-Ke, May 1955 - September 1959 (File D 190)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Doctors - British Commonwealth From 1947: Ke-O, March 1948 - January 1958 (File D 191)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence with Dr Ellen Kent Hughes (Armidale), 14 November 1951 - 22 January 1958 (Item)
Covers personal and family news; trips with flying doctor; the work of Mrs Charles Nott; her son David Wilson in Malaya; her career. (13 letters)
Doctors - British Commonwealth From 1947: P-W, February 1950 - December 1957 (File D 192)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence with Mrs B Tothill (Russell, NZ), 17 February 1950 - 14 June 1950 (Item)
Discusses: using D-R's methods as midwife assistant to her husband; encloses copy of 14 February (1950?), Iris Kempthorne to Mrs Tothill re using D-R's methods during birth of her son. (5 letters)
Correspondence with Professor F.J. Browne (Sydney), 14 December 1950 - 14 November 1955 (File D 213)
Subjects include: Professor Jeffcoate; Dick-Read's work in Africa and the reception of his methods in Australia and New Zealand; qualification of Dr Chester Wilson from Australia. (32 p.)
Filmed selectively.
Correspondence with Dr Chester Wilson (Australia), 1947 - 1959 (File D 214)
Subjects include: life and medical experiences in England and return to Australia; his work in Tasmania at Royal Hobart Hospital, Melbourne and Sydney; interesting cases from practice in Brisbane. (67p.)
Natural Childbirth Association. International 1957-1959: A-C, November 1958 - December 1958 (File D 250)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Natural Childbirth Association. International 1957 - 1959: D, 20 July 1951 - 6 June 1957 (File D 251)
Correspondence with Mrs Phyllis Turner (Family Planning Assoc. of NZ., Dunedin). (25p.)
Subjects include: publicity for natural childbirth in NZ. Dick-Read's articles in NZ Women's Weekly. Includes F.P.A. of NZ Newsletter no.15 October 1951.
Filmed selectively.
Natural Childbirth Association. International 1957 - 1959: W, c.1952-April 1959 (File D 257)
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence with Natural Childbirth Association of Western Australia, 1956-1957, 6 December 1956 - 15 October 1958 (File D 262)
Correspondents include: C N Harris, Joyce Nott, Mrs E M Ford.
Subjects include: news of meetings; arrangements for a tour of Australia and NZ by Dick-Read; publicity and action for natural childbirth; efforts to establish Natural Childbirth College. Includes W.A.N.C.A. newsletter no 1 August 1957. (32p.)
Series F. Publications By Others, 1956 - 1958
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Fonds PP/GWP. Professor Sir George White Pickering, 1962 - 1965
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2572.
Subjects
Australia; Australia: visits to; Australia: visits to; Australian National University; Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, Victoria; Pickering, Carola, Lady; Pickering, Sir George; Rogers, Sir Leonard; Sydney, New South Wales ; University of Melbourne.
Biographical / Historical
Sir George White Pickering FRS FRCP (1904-1980) was born at Whalton, Northumberland, and educated at Dulwich College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He worked at University College Hospital, London, until 1939, when he was appointed professor of medicine at St Mary's Hospital medical school. From 1956 to 1968 he was regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and from 1968 to 1974 he was Master of Pembroke College, Oxford. Although he carried out some important medical research, his main interest was medical education at Oxford and throughout the country.
Series B. Correspondence and Papers, 1962 - October 1965
1 itemSubseries B 13. Travel, 1962 - October 1965
1 itemAustralia etc., 1962 - 1 October 1965 (File B 13/17)
30 itemsFile of correspondence on Sir George and Lady Pickering's trip to Fiji, Australia and USA 1965. (178p.)
Details of itinerary, 4 August 1965 - 1 October 1965 (Item A)
Includes: Addresses in Australia of contacts; correspondence with House of Travel, Marylebone re travel arrangements.
Second Australian Medical Congress, 16-20 August 1965. Perth, 30 December 1964 - 5 July 1965 (Item B)
Correspondents include: R A Joske (Perth), O R Corr (Perth), Dr Charles Ross Smith, A.M.A. (Sydney), re attendance at 2nd A.M.A. Congress, Perth and invitation to Sir George to give the Henry Simpson Newland Oration.
National Heart Foundation of Australia (Item C)
Correspondence with Ralph Reader (NHFA, Canberra) re stay in Canberra.
A.D. Jose to G.W. Pickering, 11 June 1965 - 19 July 1965 (Item)
re trip to Sydney.
Includes reply from G. W. Pickering. [19 July 1965].
W.V. Macfarlane to G.W. Pickering, 11 June 1965 - 19 July 1965 (Item)
Offer of accommodation during his visit.
Includes reply from G. W. Pickering. [19 July 1965].
University of Western Australia, 2 June 1965 - 8 July 1965 (Item D)
Correspondence with A J Williams, Registrar, re award of Honorary Degree.
University of Melbourne, 19 February 1965 - 18 June 1965 (Item E)
Correspondence with A Sanderson, Faculty of Medicine, and Prof R R H Lovell, Royal Melbourne Hospital re invitation to give the Halford Oration.
E.J.M. Campbell to G.W. Pickering, 1 July 1965 - 5 July 1965 (Item)
Re Chair of Clinical Science job in Canberra.
Includes reply from G. W. Pickering.
F.H. Bentley (Portland) to G.W. Pickering, 25 May 1965 - 19 July 1965 (Item)
Inviting him to stay with him while in Portland.
Includes reply from G. W. Pickering. [19 July 1965].
Sydney, 11 February 1965 - 24 July 1965 (Item F)
Correspondence with Dorothy Roseby, Royal Australasian College of Physicians; D M Storey, St George Hospital (Kogarah); Dr H T Goodman (Sydney); Prof Ralph Blackett (Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney) re itinerary for Sydney visit and acting as external examiner for University of New South Wales.
Includes conditions for award of Degree of Doctor of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine. (printed)
Adelaide, 11 May 1965 - 25 July 1965 (Item G)
Correspondence with Dr Colin Schwartz (Adelaide) re visit.
G.W. Pickering to H. Ennor (Canberra), 16 June 1965 - 19 July 1965 (Item)
Re upcoming trip to Canberra.
Includes letter from H. Ennor (Australian National University) to G. W. Pickering: inviting he and Lady Pickering to be the guests of the University.
Lady Pickering (Item H)
Letters from Lady Pickering to her family and covering letters to Sir George's secretary.
Includes:
17 August. Re Tahiti - preparations to explode French atom bomb and other impressions; impressions of Perth 'ghastly party at Government House'.
2 September. Sydney to secretary, 26 August to family: AMA meeting in Perth; visit to sheep station of Bob Ritchie; visits to Melbourne and Canberra.
10 September. Fiji: Visit to Sydney and to site of Opera House-local opinion on the building and cost; impressions of Fiji-watched rugger match, visit to Medical school, lunch with Governor.
David F. Spark (N.S.W.) to G.W. Pickering (Oxford), 25 August 1965 (Item)
Finalising arrangements regarding air travel in attending the Second Australian Medical Congress in Perth.
Includes second letter from David F. Spark re further travel arrangements. [25 August 1965].
C.J. Ross-Smith (N.S.W.) to G.W. Pickering (Oxford), 6 September 1965 - 4 October 1965 (Item)
Thanking him for the magnificent Oration he gave in Perth.
Includes:
Second letter from C. J. Ross-Smith to G. W. Pickering: asks if he would be pleased to recieve regular copies of The Medical Journal of Australia.
Reply from G. W. Pickering. [4 October 1965].
Fonds PP/HAM. Lillias Anna Hamilton, 1919 - 1921
2 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2572.
Subjects
Sydney, New South Wales .
Biographical / Historical
Lillias Anna Hamilton MD (1858-1925) was born in New South Wales. The family moved to England in 1860 and she attended Cheltenham Ladies College. In 1886 she enrolled in the London School of Medicine for Women and subsequently established a practice in Calcutta. In 1894-96 she was personal physician to the Emir of Afghanistan. On her return to England she set up a nursing home in London and was active in the Women's Freedom League. From 1908 to 1924 she was warden of Studley College, an agricultural and horticultural college for women, in Warwick.
Series A. Correspondence, April 1919 - June 1921
2 itemsSubseries A 1-17. Correspondence and Personal Papers, April 1919 - June 1921
2 itemsFonds PP/LEW. Sir Thomas Lewis, 1924 - 1936
1 itemAuckland, New Zealand; New Zealand; Sydney, New South Wales .
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2573.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Thomas Lewis CBE FRS (1881-1945) was born in Cardiff and graduated from University College, Cardiff. In 1902 he began work at University College Hospital, London, and he remained associated with University College for the rest of his life. He became physician to the hospital in 1919. For many years he carried out research on heart disease and he was the author of Diseases of the heart (1933). He founded the Medical Research Society in 1930.
Series A. Correspondence, August 1924 - December 1936
1 itemFilmed selectively.
General Correspondence, 3 August 1924 - 15 December 1936 (File A 1)
11 itemsGilbert Brown (Adelaide) to T. Lewis describing 3 case studies of possible interest to T.L. (3p.), 28 June 1932 (Item A 1/97)
Dr Harry C Rutherford Darling (Macquarie St, Sydney) to T. Lewis enclosing A case of Raynaud's Disease treated by operative methods (typescript, 3p.), 28 August 1929 (Item A 1/177-178)
Dr William N Horsfall (Macquarie St, Sydney) to T. Lewis re his ideas for treatment of irritating focus with proliferation of epithelial cells with notion of tonus to all cells, 3 August 1924 (Item A 1/331)
[Letter to Choyce not in file].
Dr T.W.J Johnson (Auckland) to T. Lewis re problems of access to comprehensive library and the problem of ventricular fibrillation, 20 August 1935 (Item A 1/357)
Fonds PP/MCS. Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, 1919 - 1955
4 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2573.
Subjects
Australia; Family planning; New Zealand; Sex education; Stopes, Marie C.C.; Sydney, New South Wales.
Biographical / Historical
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958) was born in Edinburgh and educated at North London Collegiate School and University College, London. She studied palaeobotany in Munich and in 1904 became a lecturer in botany at Manchester University. In 1918 she published Married Love, which became a best-seller, and Wise Parenthood appeared in the same year. In 1921 she opened a birth control clinic in London and several provincial clinics followed. She was President of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and for many years was a household name. Her later works did not match the success of Married Love.
Series A. Married Love Letters And General Correspondence, 1919 - 1955
4 itemsMarried Love. Australia. Mrs Marion Piddington, 9 July 1919 - 18 August 1943 (File A 307)
Correspondence between Marie Stopes, Vernon Roe and Marion Piddington, (Interstate commission, Melbourne; Glenbrook, NSW and Institute of Family Relations, Sydney).
Subjects include: still birth of Stopes' child; sex education in Australia; sales of Married Love in Australia ('Queensland shops have never seen it'); Chidley's theories of sex education; Piddington's book on mothercraft; banning of Stopes' book in New Zealand; negotiations for producing Vectra in Australia and sales of the book.
Includes letters from Ralph Piddington (son), London to Stopes, 1933. Some of Stopes' carbon replies are faint. (126p.)
Australia: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1931 - 1946 (File A 308)
Correspondents include: E F McIntosh (Moss Vale); Collector of Customs, NSW; Ward & Ward, Drug Merchants (Sydney); R J Scott (Sydney) Muriel Segal (Australian Women's Weekly); Dr Victor Wallace (Melbourne)
Subjects include: methods of family planning; misuse of 'Stopes cap' name; seizing of contraceptives by Customs authorities; problem of Roman Catholic influence in Australia.
Includes: draft article for New Idea: 'The Mother's clinics for constructive birth control.' 30 September 1938. (205p.)
New Zealand General Correspondence, 23 December 1933 - 29 December 1936 (File A 310)
Correspondents include: Intelligence Officer and Librarian, New Zealand House; Mrs R A Swatton (Auckland); Harold Jowsey (Auckland)
Subjects include: NZ Government report on abortion and problems in obtaining methods of contraception in New Zealand. (32p.)
Fonds PP/MEL. Sir Edward Mellanby, 1950 - 1954
17 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2573.
Subjects
Australia; Australian National University; Canberra, ACT; Copland, Sir Douglas B.; Denton, Derek, Prof.; Florey, Sir Howard, 1st Baron; Florey, Sir Howard, 1st Baron; Melbourne, Victoria; Mellanby, Sir Edward; Paton, Sir George; Physiologists; Sydney, New South Wales; University of Melbourne; Wright, R.D., Prof.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Edward Mellanby KGB FRS (1884-1955) was born in West Hartlepool and educated at Barnard Castle School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He studied medicine in St Thomas's Hospital, London. From 1913 to 1920 he lectured at King's College for Women in London and during this time he discovered the role of Vitamin D in preventing rickets in children. He was professor of pharmacology at the University of Sheffield from 1920 to 1933 and was secretary of the Medical Research Council from 1933 to 1949. He visited Australia and New Zealand in 1950.
Series A. Personal and Biographical, 1951
1 itemSubseries A 15-37. Awards and Appointments, 1951
1 itemAustralia, 1951 (File A 37)
Comprises: correspondence between E.M. and Lady Mellanby and Sir Douglas Copland, Vice Chancellor, ANU, 1950-1951; Prof. M L Oliphant, ANU, 1951; A P Rowe, University of Adelaide, 1951; E H Clark, ANU Representative in London, 1951; L C Bridgland, Melbourne, 1951; E R Beech, BMA, Perth 1951; R Douglas Wright, University of Melbourne, 1951-1952, concerning arrangements for E.M.'S trip to Australia and invitations to lecture. Also includes correspondence with Esther M Killick, Royal Free Hospital, London, and E L Ball, University of London concerning the oral examination of J D Biggers of Dept of Veterinary Physiology , University of Sydney.
- The Australian National University: an Experiment in Education by D B Copland. 1950 (6p.)
- ANU Act. no. 22 1946
- The ANU: a project in research, by D B Copland. Reprinted from Nature. Vol 165 p. 169 4 February 1950
- ANU News nos. 6-7, 1950-1951. (57p.)
Series B. Correspondence, April 1950 - December 1954
9 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence, October 1951 - December 1951 (File B 34)
2 itemsCorrespondence, July 1952 - December 1952 (File B 36)
5 itemsCorrespondence, January 1953 - June 1953 (File B 37)
4 itemsH.W. Florey (Oxford) to E. Mellanby that he is not looking forward to his visit to Australia, that the Medical School there is in a mess from 'inexpert tinkerers fiddling', 18 March 1953 (Item B 37/27)
R. Douglas Wright (Univ. of Melbourne) to E. Mellanby concerned that Denton, working in England, is under stress, 2 April 1953 (Item B 37/38)
Correspondence, July 1953 - December 1953 (File B 38)
6 itemsHedley Marston (CSIRO, Adelaide) to E. Mellanby re his research on influenza virus and his trip to England, 18 August 1953 (Item B 38/14-16)
J.E. Cummins (Australian Scientific Liaison Office, London) to E.M. re CSIRO film 'Chronic Phalaris Staggers in Sheep', 30 September 1953 (Item B 38/25-26)
Correspondence, January 1954 - June 1954 (File B 39)
8 itemsG.W. Paton (Univ. of Melbourne) to E. Mellanby forwarding details of the Chair of Medicine, 17 December 1953 (Item B 39/1)
Hedley Marston (CSIRO, Adelaide) to E. Mellanby re proposed visit by the Queen to Academy of Sciences, 10 February 1954 (Item B 39/17-21)
F.H. Johnstone Registrar (Univ. of Melbourne) re E.Mellanby's suggestions for Chair of Medicine, 9 March 1954 (Item B 39/31)
Paul Pincus (Melbourne) to E. Mellanby wishing to be considered for a Royal Society Fellowship, 1 April 1954 (Item B 39/44)
Correspondence, July 1954 - December 1954 (File B 40)
4 itemsFonds PP/PCG. Prof. Percy Cyril Claude Garnham, 1939 - 1984
30 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2573.
Related Materials
See also: Parasitological Topics: A Presentation Volume to P.C.C. Garnham FRS on the occasion of his 80th Birthday, 1981. (Society of Protozoologists, special pub. 1). n.d. for a biography and bibliography of his published works.
Subjects
Canberra, ACT; Dissanaike, A.S., Prof.; Edeson, J.F.B.; Field, John; Garnham, Percy C.C., Prof.; MacKerras, I.M.; Malaria research: Australia; Malaysia; Singapore; Sydney, New South Wales.
Biographical / Historical
Percy Cyril Claude Granham CMG FRS MD (1901-1994) was born in London and educated at Paradise School and St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1925 he joined the Colonial Service and worked in Kenya, becoming director of the Division of Insect Borne Diseases. In 1947 he returned to England and worked at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, researching the life cycle of malaria parasites. He was Professor of Medical Protozoology from 1952 to 1968. From 1968 to 1980 he carried out research at Imperial College.
Series A. Personal, 1964 - 1984
6 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subseries A 4-5. Honours, 1964
2 itemsRoyal Society - Election as Fellow, May 1964 - August 1964 (File A 4)
4 itemsJohn W Field (Penang) to P.C.G. congratulations on being made Fellow of Royal Society, 1 August 1964 (Item A 4/13)
Alan Charters (Subiaco, WA) to P.C.G. congratulations on being made Fellow of R.S, 14 June 1964 (Item A 4/20)
Subseries A 10-23. Additional Personal Correspondence, 1977 - 1984
4 itemsPersonal Correspondence, March 1983 - August 1984 (File A 20)
5 itemsSeries B. Notebooks, 1958 - 1960
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Series C. Subject Files, 1939 - 1979
13 itemsFilmed selectively.
On Some Curious Bodies Found in Erythrocytes Containing Immature Crescents, December 1939 - February 1940 (File C 9)
2 itemsHaemoproteus and Hepatocystis, February 1949 - February 1952 (File C 17-18)
9 itemsCorrespondence About Malaria, May 1949 - July 1958 (File C 20-21)
14 itemsSir Neil Hamilton Fairley (Toorak) to PCG re Cairns data on malaria, 9 December 1951 (Item C 20/3-5)
M J Mackerras, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, to PCG re section of P. cynomolgi, 16 May 1949 (Item C 20/58)
J F B Edeson, IMR, (Kuala Lumpur) to PCG re blood films from mouse deer, 18 July 1958 (Item C 21/22)
John Field, IMR, (Kuala Lumpur) to PCG re attendance at WHO Malaria Congress in Philippines, 10 November 1954 (Item C 21/66)
Malaria Immunity, July 1949 - September 1949 (File C 22)
5 itemsI M Mackerras, Queensland Institute of Medical Research to PCG re malaria policy in New Guinea during WW2 and his trip to Cape York and Torres Straits to investigate incidence of malaria, 23 September 1949 (Item C 22/37)
Illustrations, February 1949 - March 1949 (File C 23)
3 itemsMiscellaneous Mammalian Plasmodia, December 1953 - December 1962 (File C 29)
14 itemsDon E Eyles, IMR, (Kuala Lumpur) to PCG re his research trip to Cambodia, 24 October 1962 (Item C 29/1-2)
Plasmoduim sandoshami: a new species of malaria parasite from the Malayan flying lemur by F L Dunn, D E Eyles and L F Yap (20p.), c1962 (Item C 29/3-22)
Correspondence between Dr E Pampana, (Geneva); P G Shute, (Epsom); and Julian de Zulueta, (Baram Sarawak) regarding malaria in Sarawak (9p.) (copies), 4 December 1953 - 21 December 1962 (Item C 29/41-49)
The malaria parasites of the pig-tailed macaque, Macaca nemestrina nemestrina (Linnaeus) in Malaya by D E Eyles, A B G Laing and C G Dobrevelny (25p.) (blurred), c1962 (Item C 29/53-77)
Research General Correspondence, March 1966 - August 1967 (File C 42)
4 itemsPCG to Dr H M D Hoyte, Dept of Parasitology, (Univ. of Queensland) requesting further details of his research project, 14 August 1967 (Item C 42/46)
Specimens for opinion of PCG, July 1970 - January 1979 (File C 51-53)
11 itemsPCG to Colonel Cadigan re blood film of patient who contracted infection in Johore, 29 April 1971 (Item C 51/12)
Francis C Cadigan, US Army Medical Research Unit,IMR, (Kuala Lumpur) to PCG re technician who became ill after field trip to Johore, 12 March 1971 (Item C 51/13-14)
Correspondence between Dr I G Kagan (Center for Disease Control, Atlanta); PCG; P F D Van Peenen (Jakarta); re piroplasm blood smears from Timor and possible testing of the population (7p.), 30 January 1974 - 13 May 1974 (Item C 52/55-61)
PCG to Dr V Thomas (Dept of Parasitology, Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur) ack, 22 January 1979 (Item C 53/33)
Parakeet Parasites, December 1972 - January 1975 (File C 57-58)
3 itemsGaillard Festschrift Paper, c.1967-March 1972 (File C 66)
5 itemsJohn E Hill, British Museum (Natural History) to PCG identifying bats from Sabah, 21 March 1972 (Item C 66/17)
Seasonal variation of Polychromophilus melanipherus (Sporozoa :Haemoproteidae) in the Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera) in New South Wales by Barbara B Dew and Bruce McMillan (13p.) (typescript), n.d. [c1967/1968?] (Item C 66/24-37)
Polychromophilus melanipherus (Sporozoa: Haemoproteidae) in Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera) by B McMillan., n.d. (Item C 66/38-45)
Presented at the Second International congress of Parasitology, Washington D.C. Colloquium on the life-cycles of Protozoa (Haemosporidia). (duplicated typescript, 7p.)
Series D. Individual Files, 1968 - 1979
12 itemsProfessor A S Dissanaike, 31 January 1973 - 21 May 1979 (File D 14)
Correspondence between Professor Dissanaike (Dept of Parasitology, Univ. of Malaya) and PCG concerning his research especially parasites of moon rats and Malayan jungle-fowl; problems of non-Malay in Malaysia.
Includes: A case of human Sarcocystis infection in West Malaysia by M Kannan Kuffy and A S Dissanaike. n.d. (5p.)
Further stages of the 'Sporozoan' from the moon rat Echinosorex gymnurus and its possible connections with Sarcocystis by A S Dissanaike, B L Lim and M Poopalachelvam. 1974. 1p
Leucocytozoon sabrazesi - first record from the Malayan jungle fowl by Chin How Chong, A S Dissanaike and M A Fernando. 1974. (1p.)
(70p)
Dr. Irene Landau, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, March 1973 - November 1973 (File D 35)
8 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence: Ca, September 1977 - April 1978 (File D 71)
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence: D-E, August 1976 - April 1977 (File D 74)
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence: Pa-Pe, July 1976 - February 1978 (File D 82)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence between Major A D Parkinson, Australian Army 1st Malaria Research Unit (Ingleburn, NSW) and P.C.G., 26 October 1977 - 3 February 1978 (Item D 82/8-19)
Re avian malaria in Australia; includes copy (faint) of his C.V.
Includes: 8 November 1977. Robert Black, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Sydney Univ. to P.C.G. re slides. (11p.)
Correspondence: Ra-Re, February 1976 - October 1977 (File D 84)
6 itemsFilmed selectively.
P.C.G. to Neville Rajapaksa, Australian Dept of Health (Woden) re his W.H.O. paper, 3 September 1976 (Item D 84/2)
W A Langsford, N Rafapaksa, R C Russell (Item D 84/3-8)
A trial to assess the efficiency of inflight disinsection of a Boeing 747 aircraft on the Singapore/Sydney sector. W.H.O. 1976. (11p)
N Rajapaksa (Woden) to Prof. Peters re experiences during Darwin cyclone. (faint copy), [4 February 1976] (Item D 84/10-11)
Correspondence: T-V, October 1976 - May 1978 (File D 88)
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Letters from P.C.G. to the University of Malaya, 15 October 1976 - 22 November 1977 (Item D 88/36-47)
Discusses his role as external examiner and reporting on Dr V Thomas and Dr Chua Sau Pheng for posts as Professor/Reader in the Dept of Parasitology. (12p.)
Correspondence between P.C.G. and Dr S A Rayner, Registrar, Queensland University, 11 May 1978 - 11 September 1978 (Item D 88/53-68)
Discusses P.C.G. acting as external examiner of Dr L L Callow. Includes P.C.G.'s report on the thesis The Epizootiology Immunology and control of tick-borne disease, with particular reference to bovine babesiosis and list of Callow's publications. (16p)
Fonds PP/RBS. Sir Ronald Bodley Scott, 1966 - 1979
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2574.
Subjects
Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, Victoria; Singapore; Sydney, New South Wales.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Ronald Bodley Scott GCVO DM FRCP (1906-1982) was born in Bournemouth and educated at Marlborough College and Brasenose College, Oxford. He worked in his family practice and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and was consultant at the Woolwich Memorial Hospital from 1936 to 1971. During World War II he served in the Middle East with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was one of the leading figures in the management of leukaemia and lymphoma. He was active in many organisations, including the Royal Society of Medicine and the British Heart Foundation.
Series A. Biographical Items, August 1966 - July 1979
2 itemsSubseries A 2-9. Diaries, August 1966 - July 1979
2 itemsDiary of Tour of USA, Japan, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Philippines, Australia, S.E. Asia, Pakistan, Beirut, 9 August 1966 - 21 September 1966 (File A 3)
Appointment diary of tour of Hawaii, Australia, Hong Kong, including details of social engagements ('lunch Lord and Lady Casey, Admiralty House') in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra. (52p)
Fonds PP/ROG. Major General Sir Leonard Rogers, 1915 - 1935
20 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2574.
Related Materials
See also his autobiography Happy Toil: Fifty-five Years of Tropical Medicine (1950) and Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society no. 9, 1963. (pp. 261-282.)
Subjects
Australia; Rogers, Sir Leonard.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Leonard Rogers FRS (1868-1962) was born in Helston, Cornwall, and educated at Plymouth College and St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. He worked in the Indian Medical Service from 1893 to 1921 and was the founder of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. In his later years he established a consulting practice in London and lectured on tropical diseases at several London medical schools.
Series C. Notes and Correspondence, 1915 - 1935
20 itemsSubseries C 13-17. Leprosy and Tuberculosis, December 1919 - July 1935
17 itemsL. Rogers to Dr H.T. Hollmann (Honolulu) re his use of chaulmoogra oil in treatment of leprosy, 8 December 1919 (File C 13/28)
Notes for an address on the distribution, modes of infection and prophylaxis of leprosy (7p.), 1922 (File C 13/136-142)
Includes details of spread in Pacific area.
Memorandum on the prevalence and prophylaxis against leprosy in the British empire, based on replies to the questionnaire of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association: with suggestions for dealing with the problem, 1925 (File C 13/202-250)
Draft and final version. (50p.)
B.E.L.R.A. Minutes of meeting of Medical Sub-Committee with Medical Officers of the Colonial Service, 7 October 1926 (File C 13/258-262)
Includes report by Dr E.A. Neff on work in Fiji, Dr E.A.O. Travers and Dr Hawes on Straits Settlements. (5p.)
Memorandum on the present position of prophylaxis against leprosy in relation to recent improvement in treatment by L. Rogers, January 1931 (File C 13/313-329)
Includes problem of leprosy in Nauru. Prepared for Leprosy Conference at Manila. (17p.)
Remarks at B.E.L.R.A. Annual meeting. By L. Rogers (5p.), 20 April 1933 (File C 13/330-334)
Details of rapid control of Nauru Island epidemic.
B.E.L.R.A. Executive Committee Meeting minutes (3p.), 29 May 1933 (File C 13/345-347)
Re letter from Australia commenting that unlike the other Dominions Australia was not represented among the Vice Presidents of the Association by its Governor General.
Correspondence re use of L. Rogers' methods for the control of Nauru Island leprosy outbreak, 13 August 1924 - 2 July 1935 (File C 13/532-547)
Correspondents include Dr George Bray (London); W.A. Newman (Administrator, Nauru); F. McCallum (Chief Medical Officer, Australia House); Alan Grant (Edinburgh).
Includes: The Story of Leprosy at Nauru by G.W. Bray, Proceedings of Royal Society of Medicine, 1930.
Report on the investigation of a number of cases of leprosy at Nauru by F.G. Morgan, Melbourne, G.P. n.d. (25p.)
(44p.)
Note by L. Rogers on synopsis of correspondence that the Japanese drowned the few remaining cases of leprosy on their capture of the island.
Correspondence on leprosy in Australia, 4 April 1926 - 23 June 1931 (File C 13/724-733)
Includes: abstract of Dr Cecil Cook's report of inquiry into leprosy in Australia; note by L.R. on epidemiology of leprosy in Australia. 'When will Australia adopt modern prophylactic measures against leprosy', by L.Rogers Medical Journal of Australia 18 October 1930; 23 June 1931 L.Rogers (London) to Dr Drew (Queensland) re new measures.
(13p.)
Leprosy in far Eastern countries, May 1926 - March 1930 (File C 13/734-751)
5 itemsNote on a fine emulsion of hydnocarpus oil for intravenous use in leprosy. (1p.), 1930 (File C 16/237)
Includes: work of Dr Harper in Fiji.
Fonds SA/ALR. Abortion Law Reform Association, 1937 - 1974
4 itemsAbortion Law Reform Association was established in 1936. In 1967 it achieved a major reform in the abortion law with the passing of David Steele's Abortion Act.
Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2574.
Subjects
Abortion Law Reform Association; Dunedin, New Zealand; Family planning; Family planning; Malaysia; New Zealand; Singapore.
Series A. Records Of A.L.R.A., 1937
1 itemSeries H. Supplemental Papers, 1968 - 1974
3 itemsAbortion in Other Countries c.1965-1977: A-D, 1968 - 1974 (File H 29)
1 itemAustralia File, 1968 - 1974 (Item)
Includes correspondence from Elizabeth Baker (ANU, Library); Allan Brown (Brisbane); Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics; Robin Millhouse (Adelaide); B.C. Hartnett (London); Valerie Tobin (London) Anne Turvey (Dunedin); re Abortion reform in Australia and New Zealand. (14p.)
Fonds SA/LIS. Lister Institute, 1902-c.1933
5 itemsThe Lister Institute, (formerly Jenner Institute), at one time conducted research into vaccines and sera, it now administers fellowships for research into biomedical sciences. The Papers of Sir Charles Martin, (Director 1903-1930) were transferred to the Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra.
Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2574.
Subjects
Australia; Lister Institute; Martin, Sir Charles; Melbourne, Victoria; Sydney, New South Wales.
Series I. Serum and Vaccine Lymph Production and Distribution, 1902 - 1905
4 itemsSubseries I 4-8. Documents Concerned with the Supply of Anti-Plague Serum, 1902 - 1905
4 itemsCorrespondence between Jenner/Lister Institute and the Local Government Board and the Colonial Office, December 1902 - January 1903 (File I 4)
4 itemsJ L Pattisson? (Cobham) to Lord Lister that the Australian Government hope to produce the serum themselves eventually, 3 January 1903 (Item f 36-41)
Memorandum on meeting between Jenner Institute and Colonial Institute (Office), 16 December 1902 (Item f 24-26)
R.e. the supply of plague serum that Mr Chamberlain had agreed approaches should be made to governments of South Africa, Australia, Mauritius and Hong Kong suggesting they contribute to cost of establishment of laboratory for supply of Yersin serum.
Correspondence with Local Government Board and Colonial Office, February 1903 - June 1903 (File I 5)
5 itemsCorrespondence with Local Government Board and Colonial Office, June 1903 - January 1905 (File I 6)
14 itemsStatements of account estimates etc, c.1903 (File I 7)
Quantity of Yessin's Serum to meet folowing urgent orders. 1903 Yersin's Serum and Haffkine's fluid have been sent to following Colonies. 1903
The following are orders urgently requiring speedy despatch. Sales of Yessin Serum. November - December 1903
Includes sales of serum to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and New Guinea.
Fonds SA/MSS. Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, c.1957-1974
3 itemsMSS set up in 1953 to 'cooperate with medical profession to encourage research ... and to aid and ameliorate the conditions of those suffering'.
Papers
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2574.
Subjects
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Ireland; New Zealand.
Series D. International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, c.1957-1974
3 itemsAustralia (64p.), c.1957-September 1974 (File D 3)
5 itemsItems of interest include:
Report of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society of Australia to I.F.M.S.S. Conference, London. (5p.) [September 1974].
Role of the volunteer within the Multiple Sclerosis Society Victoria, Australia presented to Conference of I.F.M.S.S. (17p.) [1974].
Correspondence [c1957-1972]. Correspondents include: K J Donaghue, Secretary, National Multiple Sclerosis Society of Australia; A M Wilson, Queensland MS Society; John Godfrey (Cremorne); re incidence of MS in Australia, formation of MS societies and controversial vaccine treatment.
History of Australian Multiple Sclerosis Society. (faint).
Report of Australian MSS re proposed international MS Society.
New Zealand (64p.), 1964 - 1974 (File D 50)
4 itemsCorrespondence, c.1965-1974 (Item 1)
Includes:
Correspondents include: Ian J Main, National MSS of New Zealand (Wellington); Mrs Gilman Dunn (Wellington); Cmdr. H E Cave (Gisbourne); re incidence of MS in New Zealand and functions of MS societies.
Fonds SA/MWF. Medical Women's Federation, 1913 - 1916
3 itemsFounded in 1916 to represent the interests of women as doctors. After WW2 the Federation made an attempt to preserve its own history and that of women doctors and appointed an archivist with an active collecting policy.
Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2574.
Subjects
Singapore; Medicine; Medicine; New Zealand.
Series C. Historical Files, September 1913 - February 1916
3 itemsSubseries CV. Medical Women Overseas, September 1913 - February 1916
3 itemsCharles Ferguson-Davie (Bishop's Lodge, Singapore) to Miss Long, 14 September 1913 (File CV 151)
Enclosing copy of advertisement from daily paper for female inspection officer in connection with registration of births and deaths. Duties include inspection of dead bodies of 'Mahomedan females' to ascertain cause of death, and instruction of mothers in feeding and care of infants. (2p.)
Fonds SA/NBT. National Birthday Trust Fund, 1936
1 itemN.B.T.F. campaigned in 1930's for the wider provision of analgesics in childbirth and improvements in midwifery services. After the war it contributed to several government reports on maternity provision and provided research grants for various projects connected with maternity services.
Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2574.
Subjects
New Zealand.