Caesarean section survey: records of Sir John Peel

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 M5
Held at	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/library-services/archives-and-heritage/archives/ ›
Full title	: Caesarean section survey: records of Sir John Peel
Date(s)	: 1967-1968
Level of description	: Collection (fonds) View parent record
Extent	: 1 folder
Name of creator(s)	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Biographical note: John Harold Peel (b. 1904) KCVO, MA, BM BCh(Oxon), FRCP, FRCS, Hon FRCOG, Hon DSc(Birm), Hon FRCS(C.), Hon FCOG(SA), Hon FACS, Hon FACOG, Hon NMSA, Hon DM(Soton), Hon SCh(Newcastle) served as the College's Honorary Treasurer from 1959-1966 and as President from 1966-1969. He was the author of The Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969 (Whitefriars Press Ltd, 1976). He was elevated to the honorary fellowship of the College in 1989. Administrative history: the survey was conducted by Sir John Peel, PRCOG, in 1967. It was divided into three parts: 1: A survey of the reports from 22 teaching hospitals in Great Britain and Ireland covering the years 1949, 1954, 1959 and 1964; 2: a more detailed survey of caesarean sections preformed over the same years at King's College Hospital; 3: a report from 13 of the 22 hospitals on vaginal deliveries after previous caesarean section. Sir John presented his findings at the 18th British Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Cambridge in July 1968. The final report is not extant and its whereabouts are unknown at this time.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence between Sir John Peel and senior obstetricians concerning the format of his questionnaire relating to caesarean sections; copies of his proposed questionnaire; statistical information supplied by hospital and university departments, and a copy of Peel's preliminary report on his survey.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: vested in the College.

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

Archival history:

This record was probably removed at some stage from Sir John Peel's general correspondence as College President.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

RCOG Archives holds records of the 18th British Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Ref: E6A10/1-4); a synopsis only of Sir John's paper on the survey appears in the advance programme (Ref: E6A10/4); records of Sir John as College President, 1966-1969 (Ref: A4/13). Records relating to Peel's honorary fellowship are at A13/4/13. For papers of Peel relating to the Abortion Act 1967 see A16/2-10 and A4/16/24. A file concerning his visit to India, Pakistan and Ceylon in 1962 is at B9/5/18. His papers as Chairman of the Standing Maternity and Midwifery Sub-committee to consider the future of the Domiciliary Midwifery Service, 1968-1969, are at D3/1. His papers as Chairman of the RCOG working party on unplanned pregnancy, 1970-1972 are at M7, and his correspondence with the Simon Population Trust concerning its enquiry into the sterilisation of women, 1967-1969, is at M39. The biographies collected by Peel for his book The Lives of the Fellows are at S4; the College Secretary's file on The Lives of the Fellows is at A8/23 and Sir Harold Francis' comments on the book are at S44. A history of the Gynaecological Visiting Society, also written by Peel, is at S26/12. Photographs of John Peel will be found at PH1P/13/1-2, PH2/1, PH3/5/1-3 and 6, PH3/6/1, PH3/18/1, PH3/22/7-9, PH5/8b, PH5/9, PH5/22/1, PH6/7, PH7/10, PH8/18, PH9/3, PH9/16-17 and PH9/35. Records of a College steering group to set up a collaborative trial to compare elective use of the caesarean section for pre-term breech deliveries, 1987, are at B7D and B10/2/17.

Publication note:

Description Notes

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:
February 2001