IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 M27
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: General Practitioner Maternity Unit Committee
Date(s): 1961-1962
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 folder, 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
This committee was set up by Council in January 1961 under the chairmanship of H R MacLennan. Its report, Recommendations on the Principles and Organisation of General Practitioner Maternity Units and their relation to specialist Maternity Units, was published in January 1962.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence, minutes and the final report, 1961-1962, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Committee on General Practitioner Maternity Units.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: vested in the College.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
No further accruals are expected.
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
It is not known when or by whom the material was passed to the Archives. Miss Mallon, the College Secretary, provided secretarial support for the committee, and the series was probably removed from her correspondence files.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
A microfilm copy of the committee's minute book for 1961 is at MR/17.
Related material:
RCOG Archives holds the minute book of the committee, 1961 (Ref: T15); later correspondence and papers (1968) of joint discussions between the RCOG and Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) on the subject (Ref: C7/3).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2001