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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Response to Report on Non-therapeutic Abortion and Ministry of Health on the Problem of Abortion


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 C18

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: Response to Report on Non-therapeutic Abortion and Ministry of Health on the Problem of Abortion

Date(s): 1936-1938

Level of description: Series of Joint committees and working parties of the RCOG

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This inquiry was set up by a committee of the Joint Council of Midwifery in 1936, with the College President, Sir Ewen Maclean, as the College's representative. In 1937 an interim report, including comments from the constituent bodies with representatives on the Midwifery committee, was forwarded to the Inter-departmental Committee on Abortion which had been set up by the Ministry of Health.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Response to the Interim Report of the Joint Council of Midwifery on Non-therapeutic Abortion and Inter-departmental Committee of the Ministry of Health on the Problem of Abortion, 1936-1938.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

Arranged in a file as given in scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is vested in the College.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Archival history:

The record was probably removed at some stage from Sir Ewen Maclean's general correspondence as College President.

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

RCOG Archives holds Maclean's general correspondence as President, 1935-1938 (Ref: A4/3); College correspondence and related records concerning the 1967 Abortion act (Ref: A16); Presidents' papers relating to the 1967 Act and later amendments (Refs: A4/13/8, A4/15/32 and A4/16/17-19); Other presidents' papers referring to abortion generally (Refs: A4/17/16-17, A4/21/9-13, A4/21/121, A4/21/124); Honorary secretaries' files on abortion (Refs: A7/4/3 and A7/6/7); additional records relating to the Lane committee of enquiry into the working of the 1967 Act (Ref: A3/2/3); records of a RCOG working party on unplanned pregnancy, 1969-1972 (Ref: M7); the College's record of a joint RCOG-RCGP study of attitudes to pregnancy and induced abortion, 1972-1976 (Ref: C7/2); correspondence of an Advisory Appointments Committee relating to wording of advertisements for appointments to hospitals where abortions are performed, 1977 (Ref: D1/5); records of the College's steering committee for a study into late abortion, 1981-1984 (Ref: B7E); the proceedings of a postgraduate meeting to discuss a College enquiry into late abortion, 1984 (Ref: E4/32); records of the working party on termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality, 1995-1996 (Ref: M13); Scientific Advisory Committee published guideline on induced abortion, 1997 (Ref: B10/23/11).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.

Rules or conventions: National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions: September 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Abortion | Birth control | Family planning
Professional associations | Associations | Organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
Joint Council of Midwifery
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists x British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Places