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Sources Guide: Occupational Health and Medicine
Societies and Associations
Personal Papers
Other Collections
RAMC
Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue
In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk
Societies and Associations
ASH (ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH) (f. 1971) SA/ASH
Material on health aspects of smoking in the workplace and campaigns for smoke-free workplaces, 1970s-90s
ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH (f. 1902, ceased 1974) SA/CMO
Material on Factory Doctor Service, medical examinations of firemen and medical standards in Fire Service, fitness for ambulance work, health and safety at work, medical examinations of local authority employees, noise, office, shop and railway premises, etc, 1960s-70s
BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY: material relating to workplace health and safety issues affecting biochemists and their research, 1970s-80s SA/BIO
BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS (Scottish Association for Occupational Therapy f. 1932, Association of Occupational Therapists in England f. 1936, Joint Council from 1953) SA/BAO/H.1
Minutes of Industrial Research Subcommittee, 1946-9
BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SA/BMA
Files relating to medical examinations of various classes of employees, Factory Acts and Certifying Factor Surgeons, industry, noise, medical inspectors, etc, c. 1900s-70s
BRITISH THORACIC SOCIETY and predecessors SA/BRT
Some material on tuberculosis in industry and on employment of former patients, 1940s-60s
CHARTERED SOCIETY OF PHYSIOTHERAPY (f. 1895 as the Society of Trained Masseuses) SA/CSP
Informational literature about lifting for a range of employments, also health and safety issues affecting physiotherapists and in exercise classes; and rehabilitation after industrial injuries, 1950s-80s
HEALTH VISITOR’S ASSOCIATION (f. 1896 as the Women Sanitary Inspectors’ Association) SA/HVA
Work of health visitors has continued to include factory and workshop health, as well as outwork in the home. Records of the Association survive from 1902
HOSPITAL INFECTION SOCIETY (f.1979) SA/HIS
Records of its working parties to establish good practices when dealing with potential sources of infection within the hospital environment, 1980s-90s
MEDICAL WOMEN’S FEDERATION (f. 1916) SA/MWF
Some material on occupational health issues (especially re work during pregnancy, maternity leave, implications of menstruation), 1940s-70s, also file on occupational mortality and morbidity of women doctors, 1978-9
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS (f. 1899) SA/NPT
Includes records of the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis After-care Association, 1916-35, Central Fund for the Industrial Welfare of Tuberculous Persons, 1935-53, and other material, 1890s-1990s, relating to occupational issues of TB sufferers or former patients
RESEARCH BOARD FOR THE CORRELATION OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION (f. 1943, closed 1956) SA/RBC
Published a report, Medical Science and Physical Education in Industry, making far-reaching recommendations on questions of industrial health and rehabilitation. Records include those of the Industry subcommittee, and the ‘Slough investigation’ of adolescents in industry
SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH SA/SMO
Some material relating to health and safety in the workplace, factory doctors, noise, medical examinations, etc 1950s-90s
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE (f. 1956) SA/SSM
Records include file of evidence to Industrial Injuries Advisory Council Subcommittee on Occupational Asthma, 1978 and on meeting ‘Industry and Community Health’, 1983
WORLD FEDERATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS: institutional records, 1950-2007 SA/WFO
Personal Papers
James BANKART (1834-1902) PP/JBA/D
Papers on his work for the Mines Commission, mostly on Cornish tin-mining, 1862
Mary CATTERALL PP/CAT
Material relating to her work on respiratory physiology and diagnosis of lung conditions in miners, 1960s
Sir Richard DOLL (1912- 2005) PP/DOL
Relevant research materials, correspondence and papers throughout, with particular reference to asbestos and vinyl chloride, 1946-98
David DUNCAN PSY/DUN
Papers relating to his career in industrial and occupational psychology, 1945-2008
John Duncan HANDYSIDE (1923-2005) PSY/HAN
Papers relating to his career in occupational psychology and personality testing, 1927-98
Prof Donald HUNTER CBE,FRCP (1898-1979) PP/HUN
Author of Diseases of Occupations (1955). Notebooks and notes on factory visits, 1940s-70s, and files, photographs, etc on numerous occupation-related disorders
James Randal HUTCHINSON (c.1880-1955) and William Henry BRADLEY (1898-1975) PP/JRH
Medical Officers at the Ministry of Health: some material on air conditions in factories, respiratory complaints in underground factories, 1940s; also on infections in hospitals 1930s-50s
Sir Ernest KENNAWAY FRCP, FRS (1881-1958) PP/ELK
Some material on mule-spinners’ cancer
Charles Samuel MYERS (1873-1946) PSY/MYE
Reprints of articles by Myers relating to industrial psychology, 1920s; press-cuttings on wartime industrial conditions, 1937-40
Frederick PARKES WEBER FRCP (1863-1962) PP/FPW
Papers include files on ‘craft palsies’ and diseases of occupation, workmen’s insurance, etc, 1890s-1950s
Frederick Gordon SPEAR (1895-1980) PP/FGS
Radiologist: papers include files on history of radiology, including ‘Radiation Martyrs’, and development of good practices, 1950s-60s
Alice Mary STEWART FRCP (1906-2002) PP/AMS
Her papers reflect both her early work on various occupational health issues, 1940s-50s, while at the Institute of Social Medicine, Oxford, and her later involvement with questions of safety in the nuclear industry, including her role as expert witness in legal cases, 1970s-90s
Air Marshal Sir Harold WHITTINGHAM (1887-1983) PP/HEW
Aviation physiologist; Consultant to British Overseas Airways Corporation, International Air Transport Organisation, and British Red Cross, as well as dealing with occupational health issues in RAF, 1940s-60s
Other Collections
Barclay Barrowman (1896-1978) GC/144
Material on housing and other health issues relating to labourers on rubber plantations and elsewhere in Malaya, 1934-1947
Dr Herbert Davies Chalke OBE (1897-1989) GC/200
Papers relating to his career in public health include some on occupational/industrial health issues, especially to do with tuberculosis in North Wales, 1930s-70s
John C Gilson OBE FRCP FFOM (1912-1989) GC/237
Material relating to his work on the prevention of pneumoconiosis of coalworkers, also research on related effects of asbestos and organic dusts, 1940s-80s
Dr J D Harte FRCGP, FFOM, FRIPH, FRSH GC/136
Minutes and reports of Bedford Hospital Staff Occupational Health Department, 1960s-1970s, with reports to DHSS, tape-slide presentation
Medical Attendant's Agreement (1925) GC/262
Agreement between Dr John Powell Jones Jenkins and the 'Committee on behalf of workmen at the works of Baldwin Limited at Panteg', setting out duties of the Medical Attendant at the steel works
Dr H Montague Murray (1855-1907): asbestosis case GC/187
Doctor who gave evidence to a government committee on compensation for industrial diseases in 1907; later correspondence and article about
Allan Chilcott Parsons, MRCSEng, LRCP, DPH, (d.c.1946) Medical Officer, Ministry of Health GC/263
'Office guide to records of work carried out by A C Parsons 1919-1936' covering his visits, inspections, inquiries and interviews, including cases of occupational diseases in England and welfare of hop-pickers
Edward Peter Sharpey-Schafer, FRCP (1908-1963) MS8429
Scrapbook ‘Fainting and Syncope’ relating to his work on fainting by soldiers on parade, dizziness of trumpet-players, 1950s
Sir Bernard Spilsbury PP/SPI
Notes on autopsies performed by him 1905-33 include a number of cases of occupational diseases or contributory factors, including TNT poisoning of munitions workers during the Great War, silicosis and anthrax
Dame Janet Vaughan DBE, FRS, FRCP (1899-1993) GC/186
‘Industrial Medicine’ file includes notes on application of medical knowledge to working conditions, and draft of ‘A scheme for the establishment of an Institute of Industrial Medicine by the Nuffield Trust’ [?1940s]
Wellcome Witness Seminars GC/253
Papers and tapes relating to Witness Seminar on pneumoconiosis of coalworkers, Nov 1994
RAMC
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MUNIMENT COLLECTION
Many of the health issues concerning the RAMC arose from the occupational conditions of military service; records cover the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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