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Blood Transfusion Donor Records


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/261

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Blood Transfusion Donor Records

Date(s): 1926-1973

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 files

Name of creator(s): British Red Cross Society Blood Transfusion Service

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Blood transfusion certificates and reports issued by the British Red Cross Society Blood Transfusion Service, 1926-1939. Also some papers relating to South East London Mass X-Ray Service, 1960-1973.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in the Scope and Content.

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:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

GC/261/1 was part of accession 723, items donated to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by the Royal College of Pathologists, Mar 1997. GC/261/2, accession 814, was given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in September 1999 by Mrs A Kilmartin, the niece of Mr E F G Keyser to whom the material relates.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See sources leaflet 'Blood'.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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: Jun 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Blood | Anatomy | Biology
Blood transfusion | Biological therapy | Therapy | Medical sciences
X-rays | Electromagnetic waves | Magnetism
Therapeutics x Therapy

Personal names

Corporate names
British Red Cross Society

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe