Committee on The Mental and Physical Condition of Children

Date:
1891-1896
Reference:
PSY/BPS/3/1/1
Part of:
British Psychological Society Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Minute book August 1891 to February 1896.
Includes: List of Committee members handwritten and glued inside the front cover, Financial Record May 1892, Committee Members, Meetings, Letter from E.White Wallis December 1892, List of schools to be visited, drawn up by Dr Warner March 28 1893, Draft reports, Discussion paper for Members of the Congress with comments handwritten in French undated , handwritten Minutes of The British Association for The Advancement of Science Committee 1892-1897 with printed material appointing Dr.F.Warner to serve on various investigative committees 1892-1894, Printed documents entitled "On the Physical Deviations from the Normal among Children in Elementary and other Schools-Report of the Committee 1890-1894, printed document entitled "Mental and Physical Deviations of children-Report of the Committee, Ipswich 1985, Handwritten letter in pencil dated 3 June 1891 to the B.M.A.
At the back of the book a handwritten and folded minutes page of the committee dated 19 February 1896 contains various pieces of correspondence, an expense report and a printed document entitled "Objects of the Society", printed notices concerning the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography and handwritten correspondence from E.White Wallis, Secretary of the Committee on the Mental and Physical Condition of Children
Inserted loose papers include: papers relating to the setting up of Society for Promoting the Hygiene of School Life with Special reference to the Welfare of the Feeble- minded, which became the Childhood Society, see PSY/BPS/3/2

Publication/Creation

1891-1896

Physical description

1 volume

Acquisition note

Deposited in the library at Wellcome Collection by the British Psychological Society in September 2008.

Notes

Compiled by the Cataloguing Project Archivist at the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.

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