Torrens, Robert George (1903-1981)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/36
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Torrens, Robert George (1903-1981)
Date(s)	: 1942-1964
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Torrens | Robert George | 1903-1981 | dentist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes and connected papers of dental professional bodies: Incorporated Dental Society Head Council, 1942-1957; British Dental Association Representative Board, 1944-1951; Joint Advisory Dental Council, 1946-1947; and papers relating to Appeals under Regulation 18 of the National Health Service (Service Committee and Tribunal) Regulations, 1948 and 1956, 1948-1964. The papers cover the period just before, during and immediately after the introduction of the National Health Service and deal very largely with its impact on the dental profession. They consist of the minutes and circulated papers of the three bodies representing the profession, with which R G Torrens was associated (the three later amalgamated), with a little connected correspondence, and papers concerning appeals under Regulation 18 of the National Health Service (Service Committee and Tribunal) Regulations in which R G Torrens was involved (dealing with the legitimacy or otherwise of fees charged for treatment).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

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:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These papers were received from Mr Torrens by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1977 and transferred to the care of the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.

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Description Notes

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

Rules or conventions:
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:
Mar 2009.