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[Announcement of Annual Meeting to be held at the University of Sheffield].

Both John Kitching, retired Medical Superintendent of The Retreat, and Robert Baker, the current Medical Superintendent, were members

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OTHER MEDICAL MATTERS

British Medical Association, Yorkshire Branch: List of Officers, Council, Members and Laws, 1876-7

Paper on the treatment of chronic rheumatoid arthritis : read before the Yorkshire Branch of the British Medical Association, at Bradford, on the sixteenth of June, 1880 / by J. Fletcher Little.

An account of the last illness, death, and post-mortem examination of William Hey, F.R.S. / by Edward Atkinson, Consulting Surgeon to the Leeds General Infirmary.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: a set of 6 Edmund Dulac gummed stickers (Evening News Red Cross Fund), 2 gummed stickers (Frank Brangwyn for the Daily Mail Red Cross Fund, Evening News Red Cross Fund), British Red Cross Society (Scottish Branch), Croce Rossa Italiana (1915), Croix Rouge Française (Union des Femmes de France - ca.1915), a certificate from Denbighshire Education Authority (circa 1910) with a colour engraving of Florence Nightingale ministering to wounded soldiers (EPH464:9), a set of 13 WW1 fundraising stamps (Association des dames françaises) featuring French military men (originally issued, joined together, as a set in a booklet. See Wellcome Library pamphlet : P9159), 2 Greek Red Cross fund rasing stamps (1915-1924), 3 Bamforth postcards of Red Cross nurses ("Queen of the Earth, 1-3), a 1945 horse racing programme (in Italy?) at the 02E tented camp (proceeds to be donated to Red Cross), a set of 1949 charity stamps commemorating the French Red Cross (1864-1949) and its founders: Gustave Moynier, Théodore Maunoir, Henri Dunant, Général G.-H. Dufour and Louis Appia, 'Sestra Máry', jđe z rekvisice' (postcard : Red Cross nurse with umbrella : Prague), "The patient is not yet out of danger" (Red Cross Nurse and man in wheelchair : postcard : 1917?), The American Red Cross (United States pictorial envelope, December 30 1944), American national Red Cross Christmas seals (collector's sheet with seals : 1907-1916), 4 part appeal letter for donations (inserted in copies of the Radio Times, 8 October 2008), a 1979 8f (+3f) stamp from Belgium for the Jeunes Secouristes of the Croix Rouge, Christmas cards featuring Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Charles and Anne (ca.1955) and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, souvenir rotaglio print 'stamps' commemorating the 1940 Stamp Centenary Exhibition at Lancaster House, London (sold in aid of the Lord mayor's Red Cross and St. John's Fund), War organisation of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John (message sent from Oldham to occupied Guernsey, 1943), Croix-Rouge française (1946 postcard, with tuberculosis fund-raising seal, 1933), June 1945 Portrait of H.R.H The Duke of Gloucester and 'letter' (Government House, Canberra) in thanks for help given in the Penny-a-week Fund for the Red Cross & St. John to help "our sick, wounded and prisoners of war", 4 stamps issued by the Hellbrun displaced persons camp (near Salzburg) during / after WW2 with a surcharge to help children (inter-camp postal service?), American National Red Cross (life saving card, 1942), recruiting cards and leaflets (2009), 3 greetings cards (2010s?) showing old Red Cross posters, American Red Cross (certificate of service : 1945), fund raising concert programme at 'Mytten' (27 December 1916), pattern for a Red Cross Society night shirt, Red Cross flag day, British Red Cross Society medical loan depot (Purley Branch), food parcels for prisoners of war (1940s).

Red Cross ephemera. box 1.

The treatment of chronic ulcers of the leg / by J. Gordon Black.

An account of the last illness, death, and post-mortem examination of William Hey, F.R.S. / by Edward Atkinson.

Unpublished biography (with alternative titles 'Look Back in Thankfulness' or 'Memoirs of a Dutiful Doctor') of Dr Lucy Naish, nee Wellburn (1876-1967), pioneer woman doctor and mother of Alice Stewart, by her daughter-in-law, Dr Nora Naish. This consists of Chapters 1-4 of a later, somewhat fictionalised version (photocopy of word-processed original with some typescript additions), paginated 1-126, and Chapters 4-12 of the original version (typescript with some minor ms emendations), paginated pp 59-272. 
Lucy Wellburn was born on 23 Jan 1876 in Scarborough, one of five children. Her father died while she was young. She was educated in Bridlington and Germany, and studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, qualifying in 1902. In the same year she married Dr A. Ernest Naish and they moved to Sheffield, where they spent their professional lives. They had eight children, four of whom became doctors. Lucy Naish nonetheless managed to use her medical training when she and her husband set up the first Infant Welfare Clinic in Sheffield, and also as a Poor Law Guardian. During the First World War, besides working as a factory medical officer she took on many jobs at the Royal Hospital and also taught medical students. In 1917 she was appointed Lecturer in Osteology in the University of Sheffield. She was active in the Yorkshire Branch of the British Medical Association and also in the Yorkshire Association of the Medical Women's Federation, co-founding the Sheffield and District Association of the latter in 1923. In 1939 she retired to Anglesey but returned to continue teaching in private classes at her home in 1943. Her husband died in August 1964. She died in her 92nd year in 15 Dec 1967, leaving 54 living descendants.

'Doctor Lucy'

The collection comprises files c.1915-c.1960, from the following subject series: Medico-Political, Science, Groups, Ethics, Public Health, Hospitals, Organisation. Also incomplete set of copy minutes of Council, Committees and of the Annual Representatives' Meetings and Special Representatives' Meetings, c.1907-c.1982.

299 boxes, 20 large boxes (1-319) 2 boxes, 6 large boxes (320-327)

British Medical Association

The collection includes: records of the Society's central organisation including council and committee minutes, annual reports and accounts, 1856-1997; lists of members, 1895-1958 and 1990-1997; files relating to early activities, 1866-1908; Society publications including the journal Public Health, 1891-1994; files of comments and evidence provided by the Society, 1950-1997; minutes and files of regional Branches and specialist Groups of the Society, 1875-1997; and records of the Society's Faculty of Community Health, 1988-1998. Also included are some non-Society records such as public health literature, 1902-1991, and files relating to the journal The Medical Officer, 1897-1973.
Section L comprises over 200 files, covering the 1950s to 1990s, relating to comments and evidence produced by the Society, which illustrate the extent of its activities and importance as an advisory body and source of specialist knowledge. Accordingly, it also provides a wealth of information on various public health topics, which supplements that contained in the Society's journal Public Health. The collection includes Vols 3-89 of the journal, covering 1890-1975, and incomplete volumes up to 1994. As well as being a medium for the publication of scientific articles and discussion of contemporary issues, Public Health stands as an important record of the Society's proceedings, role and policies. As a research tool it is equal in importance to much of the primary material in the collection and often fills in gaps in the latter. Records representing some of the Society's early activities in the emerging public health field are listed in Section K.
Records of the Society's Branches, Regions and Groups form a major part of the collection. Branches and Groups were entitled to conduct their business independently of the central body and therefore records were not kept at Society headquarters. Many had to be located and retrieved by the Secretary and the Oxford Unit from former secretaries or members, local health authorities and libraries in the 1970s. A number of records, particularly of Branches, have been permanently placed in local repositories. Although the majority of Branch and Group records are listed or accounted for in Sections N and P and Appendices 1-2, some gaps still remain. Efforts made in 1998-1999 to trace additional material were largely unsuccessful, and it is likely that some papers are held in unknown repositories and privately, or have simply been destroyed. What has survived varies greatly in content, quantity and quality. This can be attributed to the level of activity, efficiency of the Secretary and custodial history. Records mainly comprise minute books and files maintained by the local or group secretary and the Society Secretary. Some minute books include transcripts of papers read, correspondence, menu cards, photographs and other ephemera, giving a broader picture of activities, e.g. Northern and Yorkshire Branches (N.8 & 15) and the School Health Service and Services (Hygiene) Groups (P.9 & 10).
Records of the Society's Faculty of Community Health, including minutes and publications, are listed under Section Q, but they suffer from a number of gaps.
Section R comprises a rich collection of secondary sources which vividly document and illustrate public health measures, policies and issues chiefly in the first half of the 20th century.

135 boxes, 25 oversize boxes, 1 o/s volume

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[Announcement of Annual Meeting to be held at the University of Sheffield].

British Medical Association, Yorkshire Branch: List of Officers, Council, Members and Laws, 1876-7

Paper on the treatment of chronic rheumatoid arthritis : read before the Yorkshire Branch of the British Medical Association, at Bradford, on the sixteenth of June, 1880 / by J. Fletcher Little.

An account of the last illness, death, and post-mortem examination of William Hey, F.R.S. / by Edward Atkinson, Consulting Surgeon to the Leeds General Infirmary.

Red Cross ephemera. box 1.

The treatment of chronic ulcers of the leg / by J. Gordon Black.

An account of the last illness, death, and post-mortem examination of William Hey, F.R.S. / by Edward Atkinson.

'Doctor Lucy'

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[Announcement of Annual Meeting to be held at the University of Sheffield].

British Medical Association, Yorkshire Branch: List of Officers, Council, Members and Laws, 1876-7

Paper on the treatment of chronic rheumatoid arthritis : read before the Yorkshire Branch of the British Medical Association, at Bradford, on the sixteenth of June, 1880 / by J. Fletcher Little.

An account of the last illness, death, and post-mortem examination of William Hey, F.R.S. / by Edward Atkinson, Consulting Surgeon to the Leeds General Infirmary.

Red Cross ephemera. box 1.

The treatment of chronic ulcers of the leg / by J. Gordon Black.

An account of the last illness, death, and post-mortem examination of William Hey, F.R.S. / by Edward Atkinson.

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