IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0387 CC
Held at: Barts Health NHS Trust Archives (Royal London Hospital Archives)
Title: Chest Care Committees
Date(s): 1946-1989
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 linear metre
Name of creator(s): Chest Care Committees
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Tuberculosis/Chest Diseases Care Committees seem to have been formed by a number of organisations in East London, including the Metropolitan Boroughs of Hackney and Bethnal Green, Poplar, Stepney and Shoreditch, c1940s-1980s. A Chest Clinic Care Committee covered the work taking place in a number of boroughs c1970s-1980s. This collection also includes surviving records of Caplin House, an organisation for the treatment of homeless alcoholic TB patients.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Administrative and financial records.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
See Scope and content.
Conditions governing access:
Some material may be restricted. Please contact the repository in the first instance.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copying and digitisation services are available for unrestricted material. Researchers should contact the repository in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
See 'Detailed catalogue' link above.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the London Chest Hospital in 2001.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Originally compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Updated by Clare Button, Archivist, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.
Date(s) of descriptions: May 2001 , updated April 2020.