Medical Eye Centre Association (formerly the National Ophthalmic Treatment Board Association)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 SA/MEC
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Medical Eye Centre Association (formerly the National Ophthalmic Treatment Board Association)
Date(s)	: 1928-1990
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 24 boxes and 2 outsize volumes.
Name of creator(s)	: Medical Eye Centre Association
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Founded in 1929 as the National Ophthalmic Treatment Board Association (NOTBA) to organise eye examinations by medically qualified practitioners. NOTBA changed it's name to the Medical Eye Centre Association (MECA), which ended in 1990.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the Medical Eye Centre Association (MECA), 1928-1990, comprising minutes, 1928-1990; reports; newsletters; membership lists; subject files including records relating to the administration of Medical Eye Centres; correspondence with other bodies, including correspondence relating to legislation; publicity material including posters; and publicity material relating to the National Eye Service.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Certain restrictions apply. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking, apart from SA/MEC/C.5-17 and SA/MEC/C.18 which are closed until 2022.

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.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records given by the General Secretary of MECA in 1990.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
June 2008