IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/119
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: MacNalty, Sir Arthur Salusbury (1880-1969)
Date(s): 1903-[1960]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 boxes
Name of creator(s): MacNalty | Sir | Arthur Salusbury | 1880-1969 | Knight | medical inspector
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Sir Arthur Salusbury MacNalty, KCB, MD, FRCP, FRCS born 1880; long career in public health: Medical Inspector HM Local Government Board 1913-1919; Medical Officer and Senior Medical Officer Ministry of Health 1919-1935; Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health 1935-1941. Secretary of the Tuberculosis Committee of the Medical Research Council 1920-1932. Editor in Chief for the Official Medical History of the Last War since 1941. A medical historian, author of several books on history of state medicine, diseases of the central nervous system and Tudor Kings and Queens. Died 1969. There is a brief biographical note at GC/119/B.4.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Sir Arthur MacNalty, comprising 7 notebooks kept while he was a medical student, 1903-1907; drafts of chapters (written in 1960s) for Health and English History; drafts of chapter on medicine in First World War for History of the Twentieth Century, c 1968.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As set out above in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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.
Finding aids:
Wellcome Library online catalogue.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The volumes in Section A were found among the papers of Dr Edgar Ashworth Underwood (1899-1980), Director of the Wellcome Institute, when his papers came to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now Archives and Manuscripts, Wellcome Library) after Dr Underwood's death. They were found in a parcel addressed to Dr Underwood from MacNalty. The historical writings in Section B were received along with a number of other collections from the Wellcome Unit, Oxford, in July 1996. They were presumably received there in 1988 along with a gift of books to the Unit by Sir Arthur MacNalty's daughter. From such items as are dated, Sir Arthur appears to have been working on this during the 1960s. Acc 26 (part) received 08/05/1980, acc 650 04/07/1996.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled from Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.
Date(s) of descriptions: September 2008