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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Photographs of the Artificial Limb Centre, Pune

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0187

Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England

Title: Photographs of the Artificial Limb Centre, Pune

Date(s): 1956

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Hawkins | B | fl 1957 | Lieutenant General

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Artificial Limb Centre was set up in 1948 as part of Command Hospital, an Indian Army Hospital in Poona (now Pune), India. The centre is one of the oldest and largest of its kind in India.

No biographical information relating to Lieutenant General B Hawkins was available at the time of compilation.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to the Artificial Limb Centre, Pune, India, 1956, comprising an album containing photographs and descriptions of patients with artifical limbs.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

By written appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No photocopying permitted.

Finding aids:

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by Sir Cecil Pembrey Grey Wakeley. The album was probably passed to him by Lieutenant General B Hawkins, in 1957.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.