Saunders-Jacobs, Emily Virginia

Saunders-Jacobs, Emily Virginia, 1900-1992

Date:: 1929-1966

Reference:: GC/158

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Saunders-Jacobs, Emily VirginiaGC/158

About this work

Description

Correspondence, reports, circulars and other papers as Medical Officer in South London, 1920-1960s.

Publication/Creation

1929-1966

Physical description

1 box

Contributors

Saunders-Jacobs, Emily Virginia, 1900-1992

Arrangement

Arrangement is as follows:

GC/158/1: Personal papers re applications, posts, etc., 1929-1964

GC/158/2: Correspondence with the BMA, 1963-1964

GC/158/3: Correspondence with other societies and organisations, 1955-1966

GC/158/4-6: Papers on tuberculosis, c.1950-1963

GC/158/-87: Various reports on thyroid tests, drug daily dosages, erythromycin, Q-fever, maternity and child welfare, out-patient clinics, 1943-1950s

Acquisition note

01/08/1993

Biographical note

Dr Saunders-Jacobs, MA, MD, DPH, spent most of her career as a Medical Officer in South London. While she had experience in most of the areas covered by local government public health work, for some time she seems to have concentrated on Maternal and Child Welfare, as women doctors in public health posts often did. Later on she appears to have taken particular interest in tuberculosis and diseases of the chest.

Appraisal note

They included a number of abstracts of published papers, which have been weeded along with various local government returns and circulars which would be found among the records of the authorities concerned.

Ownership note

These papers were received by the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now Archives and Manuscripts, Wellcome Library) from Dr Saunders-Jacobs' niece, along with a number of books (now in the Modern Medicine Collection of the Wellcome Library) found while she was clearing the house after her aunt's death. These papers were in a fairly confused state when they arrived, and are certainly not a complete record of Dr Saunders-Jacobs' career.