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Asbestosis: The Montague Murray Case (1907)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/187

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Asbestosis: The Montague Murray Case (1907)

Date(s): 1982

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Greenberg | Morris | fl 1982-1995

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of article by Morris Greenberg, 1982, concerning evidence given by Dr Hubert Montague Murray, MD, FRCP (1855-1907), to the Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases, which contained the first described case of asbestosis; framed asbestosis swabs, 1899, with extracts from correspondence, 1954 and 1966.

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:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in December 1995 by Dr Morris Greenberg.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

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

Rules or conventions: 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: Mar 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Asbestos | Minerals | Mineralogy
Asbestosis | Diseases | Pathology
Occupational health and safety | Working conditions | Conditions of employment | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government

Personal names
Murray | Hubert Montague | 1855-1907 | physician

Corporate names

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