IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/2
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Hill, Thomas Rowland (1903-1967)
Date(s): 1941-1943
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Hill | Thomas Rowland | 1903-1967 | neurologist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Rowland Hill was consulting neurologist and physician to the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London. During the 1939-1945 war he was a medical specialist in the Royal Army Medical Corps serving in Africa. He attained the rank of Major, relinquishing his commission in 1942 and subsequently was deputy regional adviser in medicine in the Emergency Medical Service (EMS). He played an active role in the medico-political discussions concerning the National Health Service and was elected Vice-President of the BMA in 1966 in recognition of his services.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Two notebooks compiled while a Major in the RAMC; admission of patients to unnamed military hospital, 1941-1942; clinical notes, draft letters and essay on 'Malignant Malaria in the Army'.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 box.
Conditions governing access:
Item GC/2/1 contains personal patient medical data and is closed for 84 years, until 1 Jan 2027. Item GC/2/2 is restricted access until 1 Jan 2028 and readers must complete a restricted access application form to apply for access to this item.
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:
Finding aids:
Online catalogue.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Purchased by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in May 1987.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in May 1987.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from Wellcome online catalogue by Barbara Ball.
Date(s) of descriptions: August 2008