General Correspondence

File consists of papers and general correspondence related to the seminar on, "Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 Outbreak and its Aftermath", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 11 December 2001. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 18 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 Outbreak and its Aftermath, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2003).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Lord Soulsby), organisers of the meeting (Dr Abigail Woods, Dr Daphne Christie and Dr David Aickin), editors of the published transcript (L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

List of attendees, suggested outline of meeting, control sheets concerning feedback on transcripts and marketing leaflets for the meeting.

Handwritten notes and copies of e-mails regarding the organisation of the meeting and notes between the organisers and editors regarding the transcript and accommodating people's comments.

Other documents include:

A chart showing the annual incidence of foot-and-mouth disease from 1950 to 1990, attributed to G.N. Mowat.

Typed introduction and closing remarks for the seminar.

A typed paper titled, "Vaccination, Treatment or Slaughter or a Combination".

A typed paper titled, "Ruminations on Foot-and-Mouth Disease".