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Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: British Digestive Foundation (1995), 'All about diverticular disease' (BDF / Astra Pharmaceuticals Ltd.), '5 warning signs of kidney disease' (National Kidney Foundation, New York), National Kidney Research Fund (London), Living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Whitehall Laboratories : 1995 : Relaxyl), IBS (Charwell Pharmaceuticals Limited : 1993), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Dr. Katy Gardner / Liverpool Central & Southern Community Health Council : 1992?), British Colostomy Association (1993), Ostomy Plus deodorants (ILEO/ colostomy patienbdt : 1976?), The Colonator Company (Glasgow, 1937), International Colon Hydrotherapy Foundation, Colonic International Association (1993), Norgalax micro enema (Norgine Limited, 1996), National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease, St. Albans (leaflet sponsored by Pharmacia Pharmaceuticals), Crohn's in Childhood Research Association (1993), Niemann-Pick Disease Group (UK), Cystic Fibrosis Trust (helpline card), 'Love your liver' (British Liver Trust : 2012), 'Does your liver need attention? (Renew Life UK), 'Hepatology', 'Renal disorders', 'Gastroenterolgy, (NHS National Institute for Health Research : 2014),

Stomach, bowels and kidneys ephemera.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes information leaflets and the like about: Sexually transmitted diseases clinics, candida (Renew Life UK products : 2015?), chlamydia, chlamydia testing kits (2012), Terrence Higgins Trust (2015?), crabs (or pubic) lice, cystitis, genital warts, gonorrhoea, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, herpes, lymphogranuloma venereum, molloscum, non-specific urethritis (NSU), pelvic inflammatory disease, shigella, syphilis and thrush and trichomoniasis. Also a set of colour magazine inserts (1937-39) advertising drugs from Laboratoires Pharmaceutique Corbiere, Laboratoires de Biochimie Médicale and Laboratoires G. Beytout, Chlamydia (Lewisham NHS Primary Care Trust, 2010), Penelope's Pitstop Clinic (Greenwich, London. "For women who have sex with women" 2011), hepatitis C testing (NHS, 2009), Metrosexual Health (seriously sexy? cards : 2009), New sexual health drop-in service for bi, gay and trans individuals (30 Old Compton Street, London), 'online doctor' (John Bell & Croyden), John Knox Stuart, M.D. (Glasgow : 18th century?), cure for gleets (at the sign of the Anodyne Necklace : 1726), elixir for gleets and weaknesses (R. Nelson, M.D. : 1728), 'Advice on demobilisation : venereal diseases' (1919), aims, objectives and policy of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, public lecture by Dr. I. Feldman (St. Pancras Borough Council and the Campaign Against Venereal Diseases : 1922), Gynéco-Vaclydun, Gono-Vaclydun for genitourinary diseases (Laboratoire Pharmaceutique Corbière / Dr. Louis Duchon : 1937-1939), Sulfarsenol (Laboratoires de Biochimie Médicale : 1937), Orange County Special Diseases Clinic leaflet on general testing ; including HIV and hepatitis B & C (2003) .

Sexually transmitted diseases ephemera.

These were selected from a larger amount of publications which duplicated holdings already among the archives of ALRA, the Birth Control Campaign, etc. These were all labelled as research for Abortion Law Reformed, but several are of later date and presumably kept for more general research purposes
Madeleine Simms and Keith Hindell, "Some of my Best Friends Are Members of the BMA", Humanist, 83/7, Jul 1968 
Christopher Tietze and Sarah Lewit, "Abortion", Scientific American, 220, Jan 1969 
Madeleine Simms, "Towards a Rational Population Policy", Question, Jan 1971 
"Provision for Abortion: Whose Responsibility?" BPAS Memorandum submitted to the official Committee on the Working of the Abortion Act, Dec 1971 
Margaret and Arthur Wynne, Some consequences of induced abortion to children born subsequently, Foundation for Education and Research in Child-bearing, London, 1972 
Ulster Pregnancy Information Service, "Abortion in Northern Ireland: Report for 1971 and 1972" 
Dorothea Kerslake, "Abortion in the private sector - Fairfield Nursing Home", Medical Gynaecology, Andrology and Sociology, 8/2, n.d. c. 1973 
Jean Morton Williams and Keith Hindell, "The Abortion Dilemma: Part II: Patients' Attitudes to Abortion", British Journal of Sexual Medicine, 1/8, Nov/Dec [?1974] 
Abortion Service in Liverpool Liverpool Central and Southern District Community Health Council, Jul 1976 
Bernard Benjamin, The Decline in the Birthrate: towards a better quality of life Birth Control Trust, 1978: with copy of press release 
"The Institute for Sex Education and Research" Birmingham, n.d. 
Life: Save the Unborn Child, "Fifteen errors of the abortionist", n.d.

Pregnancy Advisory Service

Keith Hindell: personal files

Miscellaneous articles and publications

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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