IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/7
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Cavanagh, John Barr (b 1921)
Date(s): 1958-1977
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Cavanagh | John Barr | b 1921 | Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
It consists of various papers deliberately assembled by Professor Cavanagh on the subject of Minamata Disease, a neurological disorder caused by methyl mercury poisoning of which there was an epidemic at Minamata Bay in Japan in the 1950s due to industrial pollution of the water. It includes a number of original papers accumulated by Dr Douglas McAlpine who conducted the 1958 investigation at Minamata with Dr S Araki of Kumamto, and also later correspondence of Cavanagh with McAlpine himself and others who help to elucidate the nature and causation of the disease in order to discover the various contributions.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Documents on 'Minamata disease', 1958-1977.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
box as set out above in Scope and Content.
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:
Online catalogue
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
This collection was given to the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1977 by Professor J B Cavanagh, then Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology. In October 1980 the collection was transferred from Western Manuscripts to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.
Immediate source of acquisition:
This collection was given to the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1977 by Professor J B Cavanagh, then Director of the Medical Research Council Group in Applied Neurophysiology. In October 1980 the collection was transferred from Western Manuscripts to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome online catalogue by Barbara Ball
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with 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: August 2008