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Medical Officer of Health, Bootle, Lancashire

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7130-7134

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Medical Officer of Health, Bootle, Lancashire

Date(s): 1895-1926

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 vols.

Name of creator(s): Sprakeling | Robert John | d 1901 | Medical Officer of Health
Barlow | Thomas William Naylor | fl 1896-1945 | Medical Officer of Health
Wood | Frank Thomas Herbert | fl 1902-1978 | Medical Officer of Health

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Until May 1901 the Medical Officer of Health was Robert John Sprakeling (d.1901) MRCS. He was succeeded by Thomas William Naylor Barlow (fl. 1896-1945) MRCS, LRCP. By 1924 the MOH was Frank Thomas Herbert Wood (fl. 1902-78).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Reports by the Medical Officer of Health for Bootle to the Health Committee of Bootle Borough Council, 1895-1926. The meetings of the Committee at which the reports were presented took place at fairly regular fortnightly intervals, although they seem to have become less regular by the 1920s.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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:

Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Mr Michael Harris, 1994.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.