"Verdict for The Wellcome Foundation Ltd"
- Date:
- 1939
- Reference:
- WF/L/02/01
- Part of:
- Wellcome Foundation Ltd
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Reprinted paper from the British Medical Journal (4 March, 1939), summarising the Innoculation Damages Claim in the High Court, Dublin: "...a long report of the action heard in the Dublin High Court which ended in a verdict and judgement in favour of the Wellcome Foundation Ltd, who had been sued for negligence in respect of diphtheria prophylactic manufactured at their laboratories and alleged by the plaintiffs to have contained living tubercle bacilli."
Copied (typescript) account from The Pharmaceutical Journal (4 March, 1939), p. 223.
Circular letter ("Action Against The Wellcome Foundation Ltd in the High Court Dublin Fails") bound with Immunisation Booklet, dispatched by Burroughs Wellcome & Co to the medical profession in March 1939, shortly after the Irish Innoculation Case verdict.
Publication/Creation
1939
Physical description
1 file 1 reprinted paper, plus 1 booklet.
Copyright note
Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores