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Medical Archives at National Library of Wales Lorena Troughton March 2019

Medical Archives at National Library of Wales Lorena Troughton March 2019. Archive collections. Welsh National Memorial Association (WNMA) Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association (MSWCOA) NHS Shared Partnership Services NLW Manuscripts Collection.

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Medical Archives at National Library of Wales Lorena Troughton March 2019

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  1. Medical Archives at National Library of WalesLorena TroughtonMarch 2019

  2. Archive collections Welsh National Memorial Association (WNMA) Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association (MSWCOA) NHS Shared Partnership Services NLW Manuscripts Collection

  3. Welsh National Memorial Association (WNMA) Records Background: • Established 1910 – supported by David Davies, MP (Lord Davies of Llandinam, 1880-1944) • Charter granted 17 May 1912 • Chief aim to combat the prevalence of tuberculosis in Wales • Legacies and gifts of property funded its work • Provided four main services: dispensaries, research, residential institutions, educational programmes • Temple of Peace and Health (Cardiff) 1938 • Disbanded following the National Health Service Act 1948

  4. Content of Collection • Charter of Incorporation, supplemental charters, statutes, and related materials 1912-1961 • Trustee minute books 1910-1940 • Annual reportsand accounts 1923-1945 • Financial records 1910-1945 (sampled) • Deeds and documents relating to properties owned by WNMA 1907-1939 • Staff Journals 1921-1925 • Staff records - salary registers 1921-1924; war service pay and allowances 1940s • Inquiry into the Anti-Tuberculosis Service in Wales, 1937-1939 • Professorship of Tuberculosis, Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff, 1935-[1960s] • South Wales and Monmouthshire Necessitous Areas Committee, 1928-1937 • Temple of Peace and Health, Cardiff 1930s • Swansea Institute – provision of shelters for TB patients

  5. Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association Background: • 1864 Aberdare Steam Collieries Association ; 1890 Monmouthshire and S. Wales Coal Owners Association • Management structure – group of officers, main and district committees and sub-committees • Districts: Cardiff, Newport, Swansea • Objective: safeguard business interests (productivity, profit) • Employee welfare actively supported in 1930s and 40s: pension schemes, education for miners, health and safety legislation and rules • Areas of research – contributions to national agendas • Coal Industry nationalized 1947

  6. Content of Collection Administrative Files Pneumoconiosis Miners’ Nystagmus Silicosis Coal Dust Experiments Committee Papers Coal Dust and General Research Committee Pneumoconiosis Joint Sub-committee

  7. Rescue and First Aid • Rescue Brigades Committee – 1907-8; working rescue brigade stations in the South Wales coalfield • Rhondda Collieries Rescue Association – 1946; history of rescue work in Rhondda Valley and establishment of permanent brigade at Dinas mine • Ambulance services – 1939-45; provision of transport, first aid stations, and nurses at collieries

  8. NHS Shared Services Background: • Welsh Hospital Board 1947; NHS Shared Services Partnership – Facilities Services 2011 • No patient records; records relating to property matters • Provide advice on strategic issues • Construction of healthcare buildings • property management • Procurement of primary care facilities • Environmental management

  9. Content of Collection Contract documents: • tender documents • inspections; surveys • Drawings (working copies with contract documents) • Certificates • project reports • Specifications • planning correspondence • bills of quantity • final accounts

  10. NLW MS and NLW Minor Deposits Nursing Associations • Penllyn District Nursing Association 1896-1937 • LlanwndaNursing Association 1906-1912 • UwchaledNursing Association 1927-1940 • Llanrhystud and Llangwyryfon District Nursing Association 1937-1948 • Penydarren (Dowlais) District Nursing Association 1934-1949 • Llansadwrn and LlanwrdaNursing Association 1919-1955 • Llandeilo (North Ward) District Nursing Association 1921-1956 • Rhaeadr & District Nursing Association (Penralley Papers) 1936-1946

  11. NLW MS and Minor Deposits Other items • NLW ex 2569: Development of ophthalmology in St Asaph; 50 years of NHS ophthalmic service in North Wales [1954-1984] • University of Wales Archive, Welsh National School of Medicine: Meetings of the Board of Medicine, 1921-5 • Papers of DrEmyrWyn Jones, [1920x1988], comprising essays, articles, addresses, reviews and adjudications, mainly of a medical, historic or literary nature • R. J. Rees Manuscripts, pocket notebooks [1900x1922] recording journeys of inspection in England and Wales as medical officer under Local Government Board; officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI • NLW MS 23711iA & iiC: Medical recipes, A manuscript volume in English and Welsh, 1854-1858, compiled by Griffith Griffiths, shopkeeper, Pen-y-graig, Llangwnnadl, Caernarvonshire, mainly containing medicinal recipes; and a medico-botanical map of the world, [c. 1868] • NLW MS 16648A: A notebook, [mid-19 cent.], containing remedies and medical recipes, together with notes and extracts mainly on medical topics, general health and science

  12. NLW Archive Collections Online catalogue: https://www.llyfrgell.cymru https://www.library.wales Enquiries: gofyn@llgc.org.uk enquiry@llgc.org.uk lorena.troughton@llgc.org.uk Gwendoline Ward, Cardiff Infirmary c.1905

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