MacNalty, Sir Arthur Salusbury (1880-1969)

MacNalty, Sir Arthur Salusbury, 1880-1969

Date:: 1903-1969

Reference:: GC/119

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

MacNalty, Sir Arthur Salusbury (1880-1969)GC/119
- Seven volumes of notes from MacNalty's undergraduate careerGC/119/A
- Historical writingsGC/119/B

About this work

Description

7 notebooks kept while he was a medical student, 1903-1907; drafts of chapters (written in 1960s) for Health and English History; drafts of chapter on medicine in First World War for History of the Twentieth Century, c.1968.

This collection includes material which has not been catalogued yet. Additions to an archive are referred to as 'accruals' and a summary of the uncatalogued materials in this collection is provided under 'Accruals Note'.

Publication/Creation

1903-1969

Physical description

Catalogued : 2 boxes | Uncatalogued : 2 boxes

Contributors

MacNalty, Sir Arthur Salusbury, 1880-1969

Arrangement

Arranged as follows:

A. Student notebooks, 1903-1907

B. Historical writings, 1960s

Acquisition note

Acc 26 (part) received 08/05/1980, Acc 650 received 04/07/1996, Acc 2797 received 03/06/2025.

Biographical note

Sir Arthur Salusbury MacNalty, KCB, MD, FRCP, FRCS.

Long career in public health: Medical Inspector HM Local Government Board 1913-1919; Medical Officer and Senior Medical Officer Ministry of Health 1919-1935; Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health 1935-1941. Secretary of the Tuberculosis Committee of the Medical Research Council 1920-1932. Editor in Chief for the Official Medical History of the Last War since 1941. A medical historian, author of several books on history of state medicine, diseases of the central nervous system and Tudor Kings and Queens.

For further details of his career, honours and awards see Who Was Who, the Dictionary of National Biography and obituaries in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal.

There is a brief biographical note at GC/119/B.4.

Terms of use

This collection is currently partially uncatalogued. Uncatalogued material cannot be ordered online. Requests to view uncatalogued material are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org for more details.

Appraisal note

Duplicate carbon copies have been weeded.

Accruals note

Acc 2797 : Diaries of Sir Arthur Salusbury MacNalty for the years 1931, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1969 (year of death). They contain daily handwritten entries, press clippings and ephemera relating to MacNalty's daily life and professional activities, including his career as Chief Medical Officer, 1935-1941, his family life, and the outbreak and course of World War II, including its impact on public health in the UK.

Ownership note

The volumes in Section A were found among the papers of Dr Edgar Ashworth Underwood (1899-1980), Director of the Wellcome Institute, when his papers came to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now Archives and Manuscripts, Wellcome Library) after Dr Underwood's death. They were found in a parcel addressed to Dr Underwood from MacNalty.

The historical writings in Section B were received along with a number of other collections from the Wellcome Unit, Oxford, in July 1996. They were presumably received there in 1988 along with a gift of books to the Unit by Sir Arthur MacNalty's daughter. From such items as are dated, Sir Arthur appears to have been working on this during the 1960s.