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HEALTH 1939-49
TC 13: 6 boxes
BOX 1: HEALTH AND MEDICAL SERVICES 1939-43
13/1/A: Health and Medical Services in Wartime 1939 - 42
Informal comments on how war affects health
Report on a visit to New End Hospital, Hampstead by an M-O investigator (15.12.41)
Report by PF (M-O investigator) on a week spent in University College Hospital, (June 1940)
Ministry of Health form for notification of civilian casualties admitted to hospital (1940)
Report from medical student (1939) DH Norman
Health in wartime - overheards (1940)
13/1/B: State Medical Service
Cuttings from newspapers and typed extracts from medical journals on health and proposals for a State Medical Service (1939)
13/1/C: Blood Donations
Report from donor 24.7.40
Report from NW London Blood Supply Depot on the transfusion service (1940)
Assorted letters (1940)
13/1/D: Correspondence 1943
Letters and papers between Mass-Observation and Central Council for Health Education on the possibilities of an M-O Health Survey for the CCHE
13/1/E: General Health in wartime
Health QQ, March 1943
Replies to nine questions asked in London about the effects of war on health (sleeping, special foods, shortages of food, fitness, medicines). Questionnaire enclosed
Analysis sheets
13/1/F: Hospitals QQ, April 1943
80+ replies to 5 questions about experience of hospitals and the way in which they are funded and organised. Questionnaire enclosed
13/1/G: Reactions to Health Poster March 1943
Replies to questionnaire about poster on hygiene and health
13/1/H: Dentists May 1943
Indirects (open ended interviews) with people about visiting the dentist. Approx 50 short comments; reports on results
Analysis charts
13/1/I: Medicine in Wartime 1942
Report on taking medicines based on Directive replies from panel
13/1/J-M: Health Survey 1943
13/1/J:
M-O plans - assorted papers and drafts including questionnaire about doctors and attitudes to a state medical service
13/1/K:
Investigators' notes on Health Survey 1943
General impressions gained during survey
13/1/L:
Analysis charts for Health Survey 1943
13/1/M:
Doctors 1943
199 indirects (open-end, informal interviews) with people about their use of doctors and their attitudes to a state-run system of health care
13/1/N: Press Cuts 1943
Reactions of doctors and BMA to Beveridge Report taken from national and provincial press
13/1/O:
Ancient Order of Foresters - Health Insurance, Sept 1940
BOXES 2 AND 3: HEALTH SURVEY 1943
Questionnaire replies
BOX 4: NATIONAL HEALTH SURVEYS 1949
13/4/A - C:
Questionnaire drafts and replies, Survey 02
April 1949. Attitude to the state medical scheme; improvements and problems; feelings about GPs; cost of the NHS; access and availability of nursing care; spectacles; specialists; medicines; dentists
13/4/D:
Questionnaire drafts and replies, Survey 07 July 1949. Use of doctors, illnesses, general health
13/4/E:
Analysis and coding of the above survey
BOX 5: National Health Service 1949
13/5/A:
Material used for Meet yourself at the Doctors 1949
13/5/B:
Panel replies to Directive April 1949 and Special Directive on NHS June/July 1949
Please note that these further replies are so damaged that access is not possible
13/5/C:
Experience of NHS, June 1949. Analysis of Panel results. M-O Bulletin July 1949. Report on NHS survey
13/5/D:
2 Christian Science booklets
BOX 6: Survey of Chemist Shops Feb. 1949 (BO/1)
Interviews with public on their knowledge and use of local chemists; opinions of services offered by chemists. Surveys carried out in London, Newton Abbot, Bolton and Winchester
13/6/A:
Draft and final copies of qq, include damaged copy
Instructions to Investigators
Maps of town areas
Coding and analysis of results
13/6/B:
Further coding sheets and analysis
Survey BO/2 QQ
13/6/C:
QQ replies from Newton Abbot
13/6/D:
QQ replies from Winchester
13/6/E:
QQ replies from Bolton
13/6/F:
QQ replies from London
Survey of Dentists 1955 (M-O 244)
Commissioned by the Dental Board to investigate lack of popularity of dentistry as a career
13/6/G:
Detailed interviews with education and careers personnel on choosing dentistry as a career
13/6/H:
Interviews with students about career choices
13/6/I:
Interviews with dentists about a career in dentistry
13/6/J:
Coding and analysis sheets