Memos re Tabloid Department

Composite file, predominantly memos and instructions between Jowett and Brown. Pagination on some of the items suggests that they once formed part of the alphabetical series.

"Variation in Weights of Tabloids" 21 October 1897
memo re dangerous material 11 January 1898
memo re use of Picric Acid 14 March 1898
standing order for Hypodermic room 23 December 1898
standing order re compressing a batch of granules 11 July 1901
"Dangerous Chemical Substances", paper read before the Society of Chemical Industry, 5 May 1902
standing order no 397: "Compressed products to be run directly into the bulk container" 10 September 1903
memo "Method of dealing with Erythrol Tetranitrate" 1 June 1904
memo "Re Filling goods into stock containers" 5 October 1909
memo "Re cleaning of compressing machines and care of machines generally throughout the works" 30 July 1913
final page of set of instructions re machinery, 2 March 1914
memo "Re Tabloid Ammoniated Quinine" 14 March 1914
memos re "Fire Reserve Plant" [machinery held in store in case of fire], April 1914
memo re chain drives 19 May 1914
memo "re Overhaul & Plating of Machines" 8 June 1914
memo "re Alterations to Compressing Machines etc" 13 June 1914
memo re "Machine Rooms" 6 January 1919
memo re "Machine Room Reconstruction - Tabloid" 7 August 1919
memo re "Keys left at the Gate House" 11 December 1922
memos re throat products, November 1924
memo re "Suggestions - New York House - 'Tabloid' Effervescent Alkaline Product" 1 April 1925
memos re Aspirin 1925 and 1928
memos re "Emetine Bismuth Iodine" 26 October 1923
memo re "Thyroid Gland Standard" and original MS notes, August 1925
standing order re "Cleanliness" 15 July 1913, reissued 22 May 1925
"Decisions in connection with alteration of 'Tabloid' Department" 30 October 1926
memo re work done by machine greasers, 5 January 1927
Memo to overseas companies re correct markings for material originally packed at Dartford and then repacked by Burroughs Wellcome & Co sites overseas January, March 1927
memo sent to overseas sites re customer returns 12 March 1927, and "Managerial Instruction re supervising stocks", March 1927: covering note from WN to Brown 5 April 1929
memo re "Branding s/c goods" 7 June 1927
[Tabloid Manufacturing] department instructions as at 7 December 1927: "Checking 'Tabloid' Products" 16 December 1918; "Grinding", nd
memo re 'Tabloid' Trinitrin 15 July 1927
list of pill machinery sent to storage, 22 June 1928
Daily report 'Tabloid' Manufacturing Department, re fire in drying room, 26 October 1928 and accompanying memo re drying room for Tolamine, 13 January 1930
memos re Drying rooms, November - December 1928
memo re "Sydney Manufacturing" and use of goggles when handling podophyllin, 24 July 1929
Instructions re special formulae for UK, Burroughs Wellcome & Co (Australia) Ltd and Burroughs Wellcome & Co (USA) Inc, June 1932
papers re stock taking, 1932
memo re "Thyroid Materials" 5 December 1932
memo re "New York Manufacturing - 'Tabloid Guaiacol Carbonate gr.5" 28 February 1938

page 3 of an unidentified document: list of names of staff and abbreviations, nd
Report "Tabloid Products containing Arsenic", nd
"List of new suggested German Lines", nd
memo re Henry Wellcome's instruction to find alternative lubricants for the machinery, pre 1936 ms note re investigations into presence of glycolytic forment in the pancreas, post 1894
"Report re Soloid Microscopic Stains - Solubility of" pages 2 and 3.

1897 - 1938

46 items (in 2 files) Many of the items have been surface cleaned but will still hold residual dirt.

Chronological arrangement imposed by archivist as original file structure no longer present.

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust