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Burkitt, Denis Parsons (1911-1993)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 WTI/DPB

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Burkitt, Denis Parsons (1911-1993)

Date(s): [1948-1964]

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 15 boxes, 13 index boxes, 4 box files, 1 box of photos, 3 o/s boxes, 1 roll, 1 long box (B.21-27)

Name of creator(s): Burkitt | Denis Parsons | 1911-1993 | pioneer of medical geography

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Denis Parsons Burkitt FRS,CMG,MD,FRCS (1911-1993), was Surgeon at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda 1948-1964, and a pioneer of medical geography.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Clinical photographs from Mulago Hospital, [1948-1964]; records of research into Burkitt's Lymphoma and fibre deficiency diseases, nd.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Unknown.

Conditions governing access:

Closed.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright see file correspondence with Olive Burkitt, 1995.

Finding aids:

Collection level description available on-line on the Wellcome Library website

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

First accession is draft listed by SMD in 1994. The other 2 accessions are box listed and not incorporated into the draft list yet.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with 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: May 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Burkitt's lymphoma | Diseases | Pathology
Epidemiology | Health policy | Health
Hospitals | Health services
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Nutrition | Physiology
Tropical diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Medical institutions
Primary documents

Personal names
Burkitt | Denis Parsons | 1911-1993 | pioneer of medical geography

Corporate names

Places
West Africa | Africa
Far East x East Asia
East Africa
Southern Africa