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MMS/Home & General/Minutes/Box 1385
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| Summary: |
Volume labelled 'Minute Book Medical No. 1' comprising:
Pages 1-97: Signed minutes of the Medical Missions Committee from 30 March 1915 until 11 June 1928 (the last few being typed). Paragraph numbers used. Matters discussed or recorded include: expenditure and budgets; the Medical Fund; grants to individuals and institutions (for training, equipment, etc); appointments, transfers and resignations of medical missionary staff; noting deaths of medical missionary staff; supply of medical equipment; re-acting to medical emergencies; training (particularly scholarships); noting of staff unable to work due to ill-health; furloughs; building projects; promoting medical missions and facilitating staff recruitment; liaising with other medical missionary organisations.
Pages 98-119: Notes on candidates (varying in detail but often containing information on medical history) and lists of medical missionary candidates, c1949-c1952.
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1 volume
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Almost half of the volume is blank.
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| Admin history: |
The Medical Missions Committee, which succeeded the Medical Sub-committee, was tasked with overseeing medical mission work; ascertaining any special needs of specific missions and to develop an 'authorised medical policy'; consider hospital reports, plans and proposals touching upon medical mission work and make recommendations, in conjunction with the Medical Board, to the General Committee; publicise medical mission work and raise funds for them. Further clarification was given in 1913 that this committee's focus was on administration and fund raising whilst the Medical Board's focus was on the professional medical. From 1916 officers from the Women's Auxiliary sat on the committee. |
The Medical Missions Committee, which succeeded the Medical Sub-committee, was tasked with overseeing medical mission work; ascertaining any special needs of specific missions and to develop an 'authorised medical policy'; consider hospital reports, plans and proposals touching upon medical mission work and make recommendations, in conjunction with the Medical Board, to the General Committee; publicise medical mission work and raise funds for them. Further clarification was given in 1913 that this committee's focus was on adminis ... View more |
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Closed
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| Closed until: |
01/01/2053
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| Access conditions: |
Closed under Data Protection legislation.
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| Copyright: |
Copyright held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes |
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For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance |
| Language: |
English
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| Physical description: |
Bound volume
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| Format: |
Archive
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