IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 SA/NPT
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies
Date(s): 1890s-1990s
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 52 boxes and 7 oversize volumes
Name of creator(s): National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis x National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis x National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis and Diseases of the Chest and Heart x Chest and Heart Association x Chest, Heart and Stroke Association x Stroke Association Davos Invalids Home Queen Alexandra Sanatorium Queen Alexandra Sanatorium Fund Central Fund for the Industrial Welfare of Tuberculous Persons Spero Fund for the Welfare of Tuberculous Workers Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis After-care Association
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis (NAPC) was founded in 1899. The aims were the education of public opinion and the stimulation of individual initiative, influencing central and local government, and the establishment of local branches. The name changed to the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis (NAPT) in 1919. The Association's activities included propaganda, health education, training, funding research, conferences, lectures, exhibitions, touring caravans, and producing publications. It also supported the establishment of sanatoria, dispensaries and care committees around the UK and abroad.
The Association offered grants to individual sufferers from 1928. Individual committees examined issues such as mass radiography, and sanatorium design and construction. An appeal to establish a Farm Colony for discharged tuberculous servicemen, started in 1917, and Burrow Hill Colony was established at Frimley in Surrey in 1918 and closed in 1943; the Burrow Hill Training Fund to train men and boys in suitable occupations was inaugurated in the 1950s. The Queen Alexandra Sanatorium Fund and allied Funds were transferred to the NAPT in 1954. The Spero Fund (previously the Central Fund for the Industrial Welfare of Tuberculous Persons) appointed the NAPT to take over administration in the early 1950s. Due to a decline in Tuberculosis, the words 'and Diseases of the Chest and Heart' were added to the Association's name in 1956. The name changed again to the Chest and Heart Association for the Conquest of Chest and Heart Diseases through Research, Education and Treatment, commonly known as the Chest and Heart Association (CHA) in 1958. The Volunteer Stroke Service was established by the Association in the 1970s. The name changed to The Chest, Heart and Stroke Association in 1975. The Association decided to focus exclusively on the area of stroke, working to reduce the effect of stroke on patients, their families, carers and the community, and changed its name to The Stroke Association in 1992.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis, successor and associated bodies, 1890s-1990s, comprising administrative records of the Association including Council and committee minutes, financial records, correspondence, publications, leaflets and posters; records of the organisation of the 1901 British Congress on Tuberculosis; records of pre-existing charitable funds that were amalgamated into the Association, notably minutes of the Spero Fund and of the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium and related Funds; administrative and patient records of the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium, Davos, Switzerland, 1890s-1920s; and a minute book for the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis After-care Association, 1916-1935.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The administrative records of the Association have been listed in SA/NPT/A. Records of organisations that merged with the NAPT, but dating from prior to that merger, have been listed separately. These include the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium Fund (SA/NPT/D) and the Central Fund for the Industrial Welfare of Tuberculous Persons (SA/NPT/E). Records relating to the administration of these organisations after the merger are listed with the main administrative records of the Association, except where there was continuity of record-keeping, as in the case of the local administration of the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium Fund in Switzerland. Records of organisations associated with, but not part of, the Association, including the British Congress on Tuberculosis (SA/NPT/B) and the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis After-care Association (SA/NPT/F), have also been listed separately.
Conditions governing access:
Certain restrictions apply. The majority of these records are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. Individual records containing confidential medical information about indiviuals are subject to closure.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Physical characteristics:
7 oversize volumes
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Books and journals have either been transferred to the printed collections of the Wellcome Library or disposed of. Ephemeral financial material has been weeded.
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Papers deposited by The Stroke Association in 2003.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Papers of Harley Williams, including material relating to his work with the Association (PP/HWI). The Library holds publications of the Association, including annual reports, Council reports, conference transactions and periodicals.
Letters from Harley Williams to Enoch Powell, who served on the Council of the Association, are amongst Powell's papers at Churchill College, Cambridge (POLL). Records relating to the Spero Fund are held at The National Archives, including BT 31/35758/365305, BM 10/3-4, LAB 2/2132/1/F195/1945 and LAB 16/88.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled By Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: June 2008