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Hutchison, David (1920-2001)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GP/4

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Hutchison, David (1920-2001)

Date(s): 1942-1980

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Hutchison | David | 1920-2001 | general practitioner

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

David Hutchison MRCGP, FSA (1920-2001) was a general practitioner in Musselburgh, Scotland.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of David Hutchison, 1942-1980, including copies of partnership accounts, 1951; plans and photographs of 1960s alterations to practice premises; audio tapes of reminiscences: description of general practice pre- and post-war, mainly relating to record keeping and surgery, description of alterations to premises (with transcripts), school and student days, service in the RAF medical service in South East Asia during the Second World War and gypsum 'wart stones' .

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:

Enquire at the Wellcome Library

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession 15 was received from Liz Coyne of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), who had received these items from Dr Hutchison, in 1980. The additional material was among materials transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre by the Royal College of General Practitioners in September 1997; it had been given to the Museum of the RCGP in 1990-1991.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See A&M sources leaflet: War, Medicine and Health after 1918.

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: Jul 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Aerospace medicine | Medical sciences
Autobiographies | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
General practice | Medical sciences
General practitioners | Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Tropical diseases | Diseases | Pathology
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Personnel

Personal names
Hutchison | David | 1920-2001 | general practitioner

Corporate names

Places