IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0809 Wilcocks
Held at: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Title: WILCOCKS, Charles (1896-1977)
Date(s): c 1927-1977
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 9 boxes
Name of creator(s): Wilcocks | Charles | 1896-1977 | Director of Bureau of Tropical Medicine
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1896, graduated Manchester University; served in World War One in Egypt and the Palestine Campaign 1915-19 (wounded at Gaza 1917); Graduating MB Ch.B in 1924; joined the East African Medical Service in 1927; became Tuberculosis Research Officer in Tanganyika in 1930; at the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (he took the DTM&H in 1941) from 1938; Director of the Bureau, 1942 to 1961; also consultant to Counties Public Health Laboratories, London, 1962-76.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Reports, correspondence, publications and related papers, 1927-1977, notably including US War Department Technical Bulletins/TB Med and related correspondence; BBC radio scripts and related correspondence; Medical and sanitary data on various countries, compiled by the Medical Intelligence Branch, Preventive Medicine Division, Office of the Surgeon General, US Army; Information relating to his role as consultant, The Counties Public Health Laboratories; Publications on tuberculosis; Wilcocks' autobiography and watercolour of a typical medical officer's residence in East Africa.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged into 7 series as outlined in the Scope and Content section above.
Conditions governing access:
This collection is open for consultation. Please contact the Archivist to arrange an appointment. All researchers must complete and sign a user registration form which signifies their agreement to abide by the archive rules. All researchers are required to provide proof of identity bearing your signature (for example, a passport or debit card) when registering. Please see website for further information at www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archivist
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
From the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases, date unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
LSHTM collection GB 0809 Buxton/02/04 includes notes on malaria in various countries by Buxton and Wilcocks.
Autobiography and other material at the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Tropical Medicine, reference : GC/55.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Victoria Killick, LSHTM Archivist. Sources: Prevention and Cure. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, A 20th Century Quest for Global Public Health. Lise Wilkinson and Anne Hardy. (2001). Kegan Paul Limited.
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: August 2004