IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 PP/JWD
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Dickson, John Wanless (1920-2001)
Date(s): 1959-1992
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 35 boxes
Name of creator(s): Dickson | John Wanless | 1920-2001 | orthopaedic surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1920; Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Ipswich Hospital; died, 2001.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Medico-legal reports compiled by John Wanless Dickson, at the request of solicitors acting for clients, or for insurance companies, on individuals claiming compensation for injuries, usually from road accidents; complete run for 1959-1992, except for the year 1960.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronological.
Conditions governing access:
Due to the confidential nature of this material, which includes hospital medical records of individuals, all the files in this collection are closed for 84 years from the date of the claim.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These papers were deposited in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by Mr Dickson, in June 1985, November 1986, January 1988, and February 1994 (accessions 205, 250, 281 and 501).
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2008