Scott, Marcus Maurice, (1900-1978)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GP/61
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Scott, Marcus Maurice, (1900-1978)
Date(s)	: 1923-1939
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 Volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Scott | Marcus Maurice | 1900-1978 | physician
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Dr Marcus Maurice Scott, was a GP of Newington Causeway and later Herne Hill.Born, 1900; studied at the Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff (graduated B.Sc) and then University College London, qualified 1927; set up in general practice at 24 Newington Causeway, Southwark, London SE1, 1929; member of the Society of Occupational Medicine and the Association of Factory Certifying Surgeons, and was appointed factory doctor for Southwark; Medical adviser to a number of local firms, the local Treasury and Civil Service Medical Officer, and police surgeon; joined the St John Ambulance Brigade in 1931 and eventually became surgeon-in-chief, 1966; awarded the CBE for work with St John and civil defence during Second World War, 1971; died, 1978.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Volume of practice accounts and a day-book of visits to patients of Marcus Maurice Scott. The practice accounts include some relating to a practice in Wandsworth, 1923-1924 (probably not Scott's, as he did not qualify until 1927), which moved to no 9 Newington Causeway in November 1924.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in sections as follows: Practice Accounts, 1923-1939; Practice Day-Book, 1929-1930.

Conditions governing access:

Closed

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:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These volumes were given to the Wellcome Library in January 2007 by Dr Malcolm Scott, Marcus Scott's son.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: There is an obituary in the British Medical Journal, 19 Aug 1978.

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:
Jul 2008