Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Simon Population Trust report on the sterilisation of women

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 M39
Held at	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/library-services/archives-and-heritage/archives/ ›
Full title	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Simon Population Trust report on the sterilisation of women
Date(s)	: 1967-1969
Level of description	: Collection (fonds) View parent record
Extent	: 1 folder
Name of creator(s)	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

In 1967 the RCOG, in collaboration with the Simon Population Trust, carried out a survey among practising gynaecologists in order to determine their views and experience of the sterilisation of women, and the extent to which this operation was carried out in NHS hospitals. The results of the survey were subsequently written up in a report under the joint authorship of Sir John Peel, PRCOG, and Mr C P Blacker, Chairman of the Simon Population Trust. The report was published in the British Medical Journal in March 1969.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence between the RCOG President, Sir John Peel, and the Simon Population Trust concerning the enquiry into the sterilisation of women; statistical results of the survey; draft and final copies of the subsequent report, 1967-1969.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: vested in the College.

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

Archival history:

The file was probably at some stage removed from the College President's papers.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

RCOG Archives: an off-print of the BMJ report is to be found in M39/1; material on sterilisation can be found in the Presidents files at A4/16/49; correspondence concerning sterilisation 1977, A4/17/75; correspondence concerning consent to a sexual partners sterilisation, the Office of the Honorary Secretary and later of the Junior Vice President at A7/5/20; correspondence and papers concerning GP training in obstetrics 1984-1993, and film recording, "Reconstruction of the urethra, a record of an operation for reconstruction of the urethra in a case of a large vesico-urethro-vaginal fistula caused by sloughing after colporrhapy , performed by J Chassar Moir; Pomeroy Sterilisation, a partial record of an operation for sterilisation" (Ref R5/11).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.

Rules or conventions:
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions:
February 2001