IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 M35
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: Committee on Human Fertility and questionnaire sub-committee
Date(s): 1944-1949
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box, 3 folders
Name of creator(s): Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The College's Committee on Human Fertility was established in 1944 to assist the Biological and Medical Committee of the Royal Commission on Population in clinical investigations of sterility. It held meetings from May 1944 to March 1945. The questionnaire sub-committee met from March 1945 to March 1949; it supervised an enquiry (by questionnaire) into infertility which was conducted by E Lewis-Faning. Lewis-Faning's report was published in typescript as follows: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Report on an enquiry into family limitation and its influence on human fertility during the past fifty years.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence and papers relating to the establishment of the RCOG Committee on Human Fertility and records relating to its surveys, questionnaire and report.
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:
Most of the correspondence in this series is between Sir Eardley Holland and other committee members; it therefore is probable that the records were removed at some stage from the general file series of Sir Eardley Holland's papers as College President.
Immediate source of acquisition:
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
RCOG Archives hold microfilm copies of the minute books of the committee on human fertility, 1944-1945, and the questionnaire sub-committee, 1945-1948, at MR/3 and MR/5 respectively.
Related material:
RCOG Archives hold the minute book of the committee on human fertility (Ref: T8); minute book of the questionnaire sub-committee (Ref: T14); Sir Eardley Holland's papers as President (Ref: A4/5); Presidents' papers, 1984-1986, relating to a later fertility sub-committee of the College, 1979-1992 (Ref: A4/21/78); the records themselves are at B10/10. A copy of Lewis-Faning's report is held in the College Library (press mark CT).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2001