IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2046 and 5677
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Davey, John Bernard (1875-1967)
Date(s): 1944-c.1950
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 files
Name of creator(s): Davey | John Bernard | 1875-1967 | colonial medical officer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
John Bernard Davey was born in 1875 and trained at Middlesex Hospital and University College London, graduating M.B. in 1900. He was Principal Medical Officer in Tanganyika from 1902 to 1919 and again from 1940 to 1942. He died in 1967.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The collection comprises lectures and papers by Davey on administration and health issues as they relate to East Africa
ACCESS AND 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.
Physical characteristics:
manuscript and typescript, loose papers.
Finding aids:
Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973) and Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999). Detailed catalogue available at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by the Davey family, 1968 (accession number 315111).
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aids by S.A.J. Moorat and Richard Palmer. Biographical information from Davey's obituary in the British Medical Journal 1967 (iii) p.743.
Date(s) of descriptions: December 2000.