SOAS Library www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives SOAS Special Collections Guides: Introduction Archival Sources on Medicine & Health The purpose of this guide is to provide an overview of archival sources held by SOAS Archives & Special Collections relating to medical and health matters. The collections at SOAS contain a wide range of material on This guide health and medicine, the majority of which relates to highlights a Western medicine practiced in African and Asian selection of regions, but there is also some material relating to archives at SOAS indigenous medicine. Library As a result of the extent of the material available, it is not containing possible for this guide to be exhaustive in content. material relating Therefore, the collections included are those which to medicine and contain either a substantial amount of relevant material health or something considered to be worth highlighting. A note on content Nurse at the Red Cross Hospital , Changsha, Hunan. Please note the text for this guide was compiled in 2000. China, c.1940. [London Missionary Society Therefore material added to the Library’s collections collection]. since that date will not be mentioned in this guide. This post-2000 material has been listed on the SOAS Archives References and text compiled by Emily Tarrant, Catalogue. Please contact Archives & Special September 2000. Revised May 2012. Collections staff for further details. 1 SOAS Library www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives Key to descriptions Each collection description and collection sub-section in the guide includes a highlighted line of information, for example PP MS 13; Agence France Presse; 1965-1972; Fonds; 17 boxes These comprise five elements: Reference code (i.e. PP MS 13) Title (i.e. Agence France Presse) Date (i.e. 1965-1972) Level of description (i.e. Fonds) Extent (i.e. 17 boxes) Ordering Material The guide is intended to lead the user on to the relevant finding aid for each collection. On the whole, specific box or volume numbers, which are needed to order material, are not given. It is therefore necessary to check the finding aid for ordering details. 2 SOAS Library www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives Contents Mackenzie, Melville Douglas 47 Medical Services Ministries 49 Melanesian Mission 51 List of Collections Methodist Missionary Society 53 Agence France Presse 4 Moore, Rev Reginald John Beagerie 60 Banks Photograph Collection 4 Perlman, Melvin Lee 60 Barnes, Leonard John 5 Powell, Ifor Ball 61 Blatch, Gledhill Stanley 6 Presbyterian Church of England 62 China Inland Mission 7 Scott Family Papers 70 Christian Aid 12 Sewell, William Gawan 71 Cole, Dr Robert Benjamin Ageh Wellesley 16 Wareham, Harold Edgar 72 Conference of British Missionary Societies 18 Appendix A: London Missionary Society Missionaries Involved Council for World Mission 25 In Medical Work 74 Cousins, (Ethel) Constance 36 Francis, Rev David Lloyd 37 Appendix B: Methodist Missionary Society Missionaries Involved Hake, Andrew 38 In Medical Work 98 Hardyman, James Trenchard 41 Appendix C: Presbyterian Church of England Missionaries Jellicoe, Marguerite K 43 involved in Medical Work 117 Jones, Barbara Whittingham 44 Lockhart, William 45 Mackay, Donald James, 11th Baron Reay 46 3 SOAS Library www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives Agence France Presse Banks Photograph Collection PP MS 13; Agence France Presse; 1965-1972; Fonds; 17 boxes MS 380389; Banks Photograph Collection; c1897-1952; Fonds; 16 albums, 4 volumes Administrative History This is a collection of press reports chiefly by Brian May, Biographical History from Jakarta, Indonesia. Rev Alexander L Banks served as a missionary with the Regions Beyond Missionary Union. He was based at Scope and Content Siwan, Northern India. The Regions Beyond Missionary The collection of press reports contains material relating Union, which worked in India, Africa and South America, to general health matters, rehabilitation of flood victims, concentrated on areas beyond those in which other famine relief, plague, small pox epidemics, cholera missionary societies had already worked. This inter- epidemics, and family planning. denominational union was formed in 1899 in order to Finding aids carry on the work begun by the East London Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in 1872. Unpublished handlist SOAS Archives Catalogue Scope and Content The collection consists mainly of photographs, however it also contains some other material such as correspondence, a diary, and publications of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union. Finding aids Unpublished handlist SOAS Archives Catalogue 4 SOAS Library www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives Albums Barnes, Leonard John MS 380389/Albums; 1897-1949; Series; 16 albums PP MS 9; Barnes, Leonard John; 1913-1977; Fonds; 26 boxes Scope and Content Biographical History The photographic albums contain pictures of the plague Leonard John Barnes (1895-1977) had an interest in encampment at Siwan, the hospital at Harnatanr, and colonial and development issues. From 1936 to the late the Gopalganj dispensary. 1940s he was a lecturer in education at the University of Liverpool and in the late 1940s he was a member of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union Publications Carr-Saunders Commission to Malaya, which was set up MS 380389/Regions Beyond Missionary Union Publications; to enquire into educational matters. In 1947 he was 1903-1952; Series; 2 items appointed Secretary and Director of the Delegacy for Social Training at Oxford University (later the Department Scope and Content of Social and Administrative Studies), which he retired This series includes a publication entitled The Duncan from in 1962. Following his retirement Barnes was Hospital, Raxaul, Bitar, India: an illustrated account of the employed by the United Nations Economic Commission work of the hospital from October 1946 to April 1952, by to examine how African countries were coping with Dr and Mrs Trevor Strong (Regions Beyond Missionary modernisation and sociological problems. Union, London: 1952) Scope and Content This collection consists of papers relating to Barnes’ interests in Africa and some papers relating to his educational work. Finding aids Unpublished handlist SOAS Archives Catalogue 5 SOAS Library www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives Notes and Writings on Visits to Africa Blatch, Gledhill Stanley PP MS 9/59-69; Notes and Writings on Visits to Africa; 1934- PP MS 28; Blatch, Gledhill Stanley; 1895-1987; Fonds; 13 boxes 1973; Series; 5 boxes Biographical History Scope and Content Gledhill Stanley Blatch (1916-1987) worked for Unilever in This series contains material relating to family planning the cocoa trade on the Gold Coast, 1937-1938. During and contraception, including minutes of the Family World War II he served as an intelligence officer for the Planning Association of Kenya and the International British Government and remained attached to the British Planned Parenthood Federation for the 1960s. Forces until his retirement in 1979. Blatch had an interest in Ethiopia which developed in the 1960s. Originally his General and Miscellaneous Notes interest was in the history and archaeology of Ethiopia, PP MS 9/70-74; General and Miscellaneous Notes; 1913-1973; however he later became interested in socio-political Series; 5 boxes affairs as well. Scope and Content Scope and Content The collection contains material relating to the Ethiopian This series contains press cuttings on family planning situation in the 1970s and 1980s, covering topics such as (1958-1962) and notes discussing health in relation to the famine, refugees, and religious discrimination. environment (c1951). Finding aids Unpublished handlist SOAS Archives Catalogue Related Units of Description Collection of books on Ethiopia also donated to SOAS Library 6 SOAS Library www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives Ethiopia China Inland Mission PP MS 28/47-176; Ethiopia; 1895-1987; Series; 8 boxes CIM; China Inland Mission (Overseas Missionary Fellowship); Scope and Content 1815-1989; Fonds; 161 boxes, 394 volumes This series contains material, such as correspondence, Administrative History press cuttings, and published articles, relating to famine The China Inland Mission (CIM) was founded in 1865 and relief (1975-1987). had missionaries working in China until 1953, when the last CIM missionaries left China. In 1951 its name was changed to China Inland Mission Overseas Missionary Fellowship and in 1964 to the Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF). The OMF continues under this name today. Rev James Hudson Taylor and William Thomas Berger officially set up the China Inland Mission in 1865. Its aim was the evangelisation of the inland provinces of China. Taylor was included in the first missionary party which left for China in May 1866, setting up the first base at Hangchow, Chekiang. In 1868 the headquarters were established at Yangchow. William Berger acted as Home Director until his retirement in 1872, when the London Council was formed to oversee home affairs. In 1873 the headquarters moved to Shanghai. 7 SOAS Library www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives Taylor was trained in medicine himself, having carried out there were 10 hospitals, 68 dispensaries and 50 opium a two years’ apprenticeship at the London Hospital and refuges. graduating as a member of the Royal College of Many CIM missionaries obtained their medical Surgeons in 1862. As part of his work in the field Taylor qualification in the USA, including James Cameron, W took on the medical care of his fellow missionaries. Douthwaite, and Horace Randle. During the 1870s two or three doctors participated in this work and from 1880 the medical work of the mission Further Reading increased. The CIM concentrated on curative medicine rather than preventive. • A J Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century. London, 7 volumes, 1981-1989 Dr Millar Wilson opened a hospital at Linfen at his own expense, and Dr William Wilson established one at • L Lyall. A Passion for the Impossible. London, 1965 Hanzhong in South Shanxi and one at Yibin (Suifu) in Scope and Content Sichuan. In 1902 Dr Whitfield Guinness and Dr Sydney Carr began medical work in Kaifeng.