IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1530 D1
Held at: Royal Free Hospital Archives Centre
Title: Priory Medical Society, Hampstead
Date(s): 1890-1939
Level of description: Collection (Fonds)
Extent: 0.5 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Priory Medical Society, Hampstead
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Priory Medical Society was founded in 1890, the first Chairman was Dr Thomas Morton. It was a local medical society with 15 members, all medical practitioners working in the Hampstead area, some members held consultant posts at Hampstead General Hospital and the Children's Hospital, Hampstead. The Society met fortnightly between October and April at members' homes. Each member was required to present a paper, or cases or pathological specimens in each session. The Society's activities were suspended in October 1939, it is not known if it was reformed after the war.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Minute books of the Priory Medical Society, Hampstead, 1890-1902, 1910-1926, 1934-1939, containing accounts of papers, patients or pathological specimens presented by the members, who included Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the eminent forensic pathologist.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronological
Conditions governing access:
Researchers wishing to consult the Archives should first contact the Archivist, Royal Free Hospital Archives Centre, 'The Hoo', 17 Lyndhurst Gardens, London NW3 5NU, for an appointment
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish, or to quote from. original material should be submitted to the Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
List available at the Archives Centre.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
These records were donated by Mrs James, the grand-daughter of Dr Morton, who was the first Chairman of the Society.
Immediate source of acquisition:
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The Centre also holds the records of Hampstead General Hospital and the Children's Hospital, Hampstead.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled Feb 2001, revised by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Created 20 Feb 2001, revised Dec 2001