IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 GP/55
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Milne-Redhead, Dr Humphrey
Date(s): 1945-1972
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 5 volumes
Name of creator(s): Redhead | Humphrey | Milne- | 1906-1974 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Dr Milne-Redhead entered medical education after a period in banking and working at rubber-planting in Malaya. After graduating from Edinburgh in 1937 he held various house appointments and then saw war service in the North of England. An account of his work with ambulance trains during the Second World War has been placed in the Imperial War Museum. When the war was over he returned to Scotland and entered general practice at Mainsriddle in 1947, where he served the scattered community for 27 years. He had a keen interest in local wildlife, contributed to the Botanical Society's botanical map of the British Isles, and was a member of the Wildlife Trust of Scotland.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Dr Milne-Redhead, 1945-1972, comprising an incomplete set of accounts of Milne-Redhead's single-handed practice at Mainsriddle, by Dumfries. The two earlier books are informal records of income and expenditure with simple lists of incoming and outgoing payments (including household, family and private expenses) plus year-end analyses. These possibly represent a larger series of rough account books, from which the numbered series of cash books were prepared, which seems likely given that there is an overlap between GP/55/2 and GP/55/3, which both cover the year 1963.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The numbered series of Cash Books (beginning at no. 6) have Income and Expenditure laid out on facing pages and figures entered in orderly columns under different headings such as 'Patients' fees' 'Drugs, etc'.
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.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These volumes were given to the Wellcome Library in March 2002 by Dr Milne-Redhead's daughter, Mrs Lesley Tregaskes.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2008