First minute book of the Leeds General Infirmary Anaesthetists' Committee
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: First minute book of the Leeds General Infirmary Anaesthetists' Committee
Classmark: MS 2032/27
Original reference: MS 1589
Date(s): May 1946- Jul 1955
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 volume
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7389
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Comprises the full record of the committee's earliest meetings, starting from 16 May 1946.
Dark red, ruled exercise book, with the title 'INFIRMARY ANAESTHETISTS COMMITTEE MINUTES MAY 1946-JULY 1955' written in ink on a piece of white paper and attached to the front cover. Inside the front cover there is a list of honorary anaesthetists, visiting anaesthetists and the reader in anaesthetics, detailing their name and address.
Loose papers found throughout the volume, include:
- A memorandum on the training of specialist anaesthetists in the United Leeds Hospitals, by the Anaesthetists Committee, 8 Mar 1949
- Copy letters to the Board of the United Leeds Hospitals
- A page of draft minutes
- Copy of an agenda for the Committee meeting for 29 Sep 1949
- Memorandum on anaesthetists work schedules
- Memorandum on the relationship of the reader in anaesthetics to the consultant anaesthetic staff
- Memorandum on the general principles for the guidance of anaesthetic officers
- Agenda for Committee meeting on 6 Feb 1952
Biography or history
Leeds General Infirmary Anaesthetists' Committee was formed in 1946.
Provenance
This volume was presented to the University of Leeds Medical Library, 1983. Previously catalogued under the artificial collection SC MS Case notes.
Catalogued as part of the Wellcome Trust-funded Medical Collections Project (2015-2018).
Access and usage
Access
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Physical and technical conditions
Binding is damaged and front cover is coming loose. Some of the loose papers throughout the volume are fragile and have damage from paper clips or pins. Also some damage from adhesive tape staining.