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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

Mass-Observation Studies 1937-55

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