IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/136
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Harte, Dr John Dudley (b 1916)
Date(s): 1966-1977
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3 boxes
Name of creator(s): Harte | John Dudley | b 1916 | Staff Physician Staff Occupational Health Service, Bedford General Hospital
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The papers in this collection relate to a four year project funded by the DHSS to set up an Occupational Medicine Department in Bedford Hospital, for the staff: the first such department in this country, initiated in 1967. They include reports to the DHSS and minutes of the committee administering the department. There are also the minutes of a committee set up under the auspices of the Westminster Group to set up an Occupational Health Department, and the tapes and slides used in a tape-slide presentation on occupational health in hospitals.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Minutes and reports of Bedford Hospital Staff Occupational Health Department, 1960s-1970s, with reports to DHSS, tape-slide presentation, minutes and papers relating to setting up of Staff Occupational Health Department for Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority, 1975-1977.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in sections as follows: GC/136/1-6 Bedford Hospital Staff Occupational Health Department GC/136/7 Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority GC/136/8-9 Tape-slide presentations.
Conditions governing access:
Certain restrictions apply. GC/136/4 restricted access until January 2078 The Archivist may allow access to this item on condition that: (a) the reader shall not use the information obtained from the records for any purpose other than the specific research described in their application for access. (b) the reader shall not use the information obtained from the research in any way which might allow the identification of named individuals. (c) the reader shall not divulge to a third party information contained in restricted records. (d) the reader shall respect the confidentiality of any documents or information not connected with their research but which may be seen in the course of it.
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.
Physical characteristics:
Paper, audio tapes, photographic material.
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These papers were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now the Wellcome Library Archives and Manucsripts Department) in May 1992 by Dr Harte on his retirement.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
His library of occupational health publications is now in the Library of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine; papers on research into sickness absence over five years among Bedford Hospital staff are in the Bedfordsire Record Office; several hundred slides relating to occupational health problems are now with Professor Harrington at Birmingham University Occupational Health Department.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2009