Association of Area Medical Officers of Health

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 SA/AMO
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Association of Area Medical Officers of Health
Date(s)	: 1974-1981
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Association of Area Medical Officers of Health
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Association of Area Medical Officers of Health was set up as a result of local government reorganisation, as a successor to the Association of County Medical Officers of Health, when Medical Officers employed by local government for each county were replaced by Medical Officers based on the new Area Health Authorities within the National Health Service. Many former County Medical Officers of Health were re-employed by Area Health Authorities. The Association came into being early in 1974, and was dissolved in 1981 in anticipation of the abolition of Area Health Authorities in April 1982.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Agendas and notes (as opposed to formal minutes) of meetings of the Association of Area Medical Officers of Health, anda number of papers circulated to members in connection with meetings. The earlier items (1974-1976) are all xerox copies, as no set of signed minutes was kept; but from 1977 onwards the agendas and notes of meetings (though not all of the circulated papers) are the typed top copies.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Chronological.

Conditions governing access:

The material is 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:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were received by the Wellcome Library on permanent loan from Dr P.C. Moore of Shrewsbury, formerly the Honorary Secretary of the Association.

Allied Materials

Related material:

In the Wellcome Library: the records of the Association of County Medical Officers of Health are also held (SA/CMO).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2009