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The archives contain a number of collections, some of which are currently more accessible than others. They fall into the following categories:

Personal papers and manuscript material
Administrative records of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Photographs, artwork and ephemera

More collections will come to light as the archivist discovers what is held in the archives and surveys the organisation for records. CALM 2000 software is being used to catalogue the archives. The catalogue is currently only available to researchers visiting the archives but will be accessible via the web in the future. For more information on how to access these collections, please see our access conditions

Personal papers and manuscript material

Collection level descriptions exist for the following and are listed on the AIM25 project website, click on title to see full description

Balfour, Sir Andrew (1873-1931) lectures, speeches, manuscripts and papers on tropical medicine; research notes; publications; papers and correspondence relating to his appointment as Director of School, illness, death and memorial.
Dates: 1907-1946

Corkill, Norman Lace (1898-1966) articles used by Corkill in his work with particular reference to the geography and health of the Arabian area; articles and notes concerning nutrition; reports and documentation on WHO Project Iran, and the Aden Protectorate Health Service; detailed reports by Corkill on his examination of Prisoner of War camps in the Sudan, World War Two.
Dates: 1939-1965

Hodges, Lt Col Aubrey Dallas Percival (1861-1946) copies of diaries concerning sleeping sickness in Uganda.
Dates: 1898-1906

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Manson, Sir Patrick (1844-1922) correspondence and papers; research papers; lectures; publications; diaries; photographs; scientific artefacts; volumes of medical examinations of candidates for service in the colonies and protectorates (1898-1919).
Dates: 1865-1964

Marshall, John Frederick (1874-1949) papers mainly relating to the establishment of the British Mosquito Control Institute on Hayling Island; programmes, addresses and reports of meetings and conferences concerned with mosquito and malaria research; press cuttings relating to mosquitoes and malaria in Britain, and to the malaria outbreak of 1927.
Dates: 1920-1965

Newsholme, Sir Arthur (1857-1943) articles, reports and notes on the following areas: tuberculosis with particular reference to compulsory notification; infectious and epidemic diseases; preventive medicine; public health, all aspects including 'social' and 'moral'; rheumatic fever; child health and welfare including morbidity and mortality; maternity and midwifery; phthisis; proprietary and patent medicines, dangerous drugs; statistics; scarlet fever; small pox, and cancer.
Dates: 1891-1935

Rogers, Maj Gen Sir Leonard (1868-1962) papers including manuscripts of three books: Rogers' memoirs, published as Happy Toil. Fifty-five years of tropical medicine, third edition of Fevers in the Tropics and a collection of papers on cholera, published as Cholera and its treatment; papers on the following areas: kala-azar; cachexial fever; leprosy, phthisis, pneumonia and smallpox in India; leprosy in East Africa; cholera (treatment and epidemiology); dysentery; sprue; tuberculosis; dengue fever.
Dates: 1894-1957

Ross, Col Sir Ronald (1857-1932) correspondence, manuscripts, reprints and newspaper cuttings on the major campaigns for the control of malaria, closely documenting his own work through his notebooks, diagrams and thousands of letters from medical scientists, principally with Sir Patrick Manson in regard to Ross's research into malaria in India; correspondence relevant to the early discoveries in trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis; papers and correspondence relating to Ross' efforts to improve the pay of research workers and the improvement of sanitation in the colonies, papers relating to Ross' work at the War Office, and his visit to South East Asia and India in 1926-1927, including photographs, medals, diplomas and copies of his literary works; papers relating to Ross' literary interests; photographs and biographical information on Ross.
Dates: 1894-1957

See Ross project for further information on Ross

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The School also has material relating to the following:

Alcock, Alfred William (1859-1933): autobiographical notes on his life (1876-1926) and correspondence on the status of zoology in India and the unsatisfactory condition of the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
Dates: 1906-1920s

Barnard, Cyril Cuthbert (1894-1959): correspondence and papers relating to his employment at LSHTM; handwritten translation of 'The Book of Rheumatism of the Famous Parisian Physician Gulielmus Ballonius'; publications.
Dates: 1924-1968

Beattie, Mary V F (b.1900): application, correspondence and reports relating to her work at the School and as the Wandsworth Scholar studying the physico-chemical factors of water as possible determinants of mosquito breeding.
Dates: 1925-1932

Bradford-Hill, Austin (1897-1991): memoirs relating to his time at the School as Professor of Medical Statistics and as Dean.
Dates: 1980s-1990s

Browne, Stanley George (1907-1986): manuscripts and publications on leprosy.
Dates: 1960s

Budd, William (1811-1880): publications, correspondence on cholera and typhoid (1854-1869); certificates from medical institutions.
Dates: 1829-1869

Buxton, Patrick Alfred (1892-1955): correspondence; research notes; maps; diaries; publications relating to entomology.
Dates: 1908-1957

Carpenter, Geoffrey Douglas Hale and Amy Frances :joint diary recording their experiences including trips to Uganda for his research on sleeping sickness.
Dates: 1913-1930.

Castellani, Sir Aldo (1877-1971): correspondence and papers relating to his role in the School as lecturer and Director of Tropical Mycoses.
Dates: 1924-1951

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Chadwick, Sir Edwin (1800-1890): copies of letters to John Hill Burton on public health matters.
Dates: 1840-1851

Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen (1863-1937): correspondence file relating to his time as Chairman of the Court of Governors and member of the Board of Management.
Dates: 1931-1938

Crowden, Dr Guy Pascoe (1894-1966):correspondence and papers relating to his role in the School in applied physiology and industrial physiology.
Dates: 1927-1953

Daley, Sir William Allen (1887-1968): medals.
Dates: 1903-1913

Durham, Herbert Edward (1866-1945): reports and correspondence on beri beri on Christmas Island and the Malay States.
Dates: 1901-1908

Gajdusek, D Carelton (1923-): journals and publications relating to his work on kuru, notes on his expeditions.
Dates: 1954-1975

Greenwood, Major (1880-1949): correspondence and papers relating to his work as Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics, and as Acting Dean of LSHTM.
Dates: 1924-1950

Jameson, William Wilson (1885-1962): correspondence and papers relating to his employment as Professor of Public Health and Dean of LSHTM.
Dates: 1927-1967

Leiper, Robert Thomson (1881-1969):material on the British Guiana and West Indies Expedition; correspondence; half-yearly reports as helminthologist; photographs; postcards; publications.
Dates: 1880s-1960s

Lewis, Timothy Richards (1841-1886): scientific notebooks.
Dates: 1869-1886

Macdonald, George (1903-1967): diaries recording his war work, photograph albums.
Dates: 1937-1940s

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Macfie, John William Scott (1879-1948): lecture notes; correspondence.
Dates: 1910-1929

Manson-Bahr, Sir Philip Henrich (1881-1966): correspondence and papers.
Dates: 1925-1966

Murphy, Sir Shirley (1848-1923): research notes on slaughterhouses and meat inspection, letters from Ernest Pfeiffer.
Dates: 1890s-1900s

Napier, L Everard (1921-1940): publications, many relating to kala-azar.
Dates: 1921-1940

Pettenkofer, Max Von (1818-1901): handwritten manuscript 'On the self purification of rivers'.
No date

Pickles, William Norman (1885-1969): epidemiological tables.
Dates: 1929-1963

Scott, H Harold (1874-1956): correspondence, publications, press cuttings and reports concerning vomiting sickness and ackee poisoning.
Dates: 1886, 1915-1918

Thomson, John Gordon (1878-1937) : correspondence and papers
Dates: 1914-1929

Topley, William Whiteman Carlton (1886-1944) : publications relating to his work as a bacteriologist.
Dates: 1913-1944

Wilcocks, Charles (1896-1977): correspondence and scripts for BBC radio programme 'Doctor in the House', US War Department Technical Bulletins.
Dates: 1944-1969

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Administrative records of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Material relating to the establishment and development of the School since 1899

Minutes and agendas of School council

Attendance registers

Student registers

Material relating to the construction, move and opening ceremony of the Keppel Street building

Material relating to the establishment of the Ross Institute and its incorporation into LSHTM

 

Photographs, artwork and ephemera

Photographs of staff and students

Photograph albums of medical conditions

Images of the School building

Images used in past exhibitions relating to public health

Scientific slides

Microscope belonging to Sir Ronald Ross

Wooden box for transporting mosquitoes

Films and videos

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