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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Institutional versus Domiciliary Midwifery/Maternity Services/Obstetric Services Committee


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 M24

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: Institutional versus Domiciliary Midwifery/Maternity Services/Obstetric Services Committee

Date(s): 1946-1957

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 folders, 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Institutional versus Domiciliary Midwifery Committee was established by the RCOG Council under the chairmanship of R C Thomas in 1951 to assess National Health Service obstetric services, to study trends in places of birth, and to define objectives for the next two decades. It changed its title to the Maternity' Services Committee later in 1951 and to the Obstetric Services Committee in 1954. It published its report in the same year; a revised version was published by the College in November 1956. The committee does not appear to have met after 1954. According to a note in T5, p. 17, this committee continued the work of an earlier RCOG committee, the Maternity Committee, 1929-1939.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes, correspondence of Miss Mallon, College Secretary, background papers and reports of the RCOG Institutional versus Domiciliary Midwifery Committee, 1946-1957, including the committee's Report on the Obstetric Service under the National Health Service, July 1954 and 1956 revised edition.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: vested in the College.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

It is not known when or by whom the material was passed to the Archives; Miss Mallon, the College Secretary, provided secretarial support for the committee, and the records were probably originally included with her files.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

RCOG Archives hold a microfilm copy of the committee's minutes for 1951-1954 (Ref: MR/2).

Related material:

RCOG Archives hold the minute book of the committee, 1951-1954 (Ref: T7); minutes of its predecessor, the Maternity Committee, 1929-1939 (Ref: T5).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.

Rules or conventions: National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Birth | Life cycle
Hospitals | Health services
Maternal and child health | Health policy | Health
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences
National Health Service | Health services
Obstetrics | Medical sciences
Professional associations | Associations | Organizations
Surgery | Medical sciences
Medical institutions
Social sciences
Social welfare

Personal names

Corporate names
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists x British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | Institutional versus Domiciliary Midwifery Committee

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