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CA NL0001 021 · Fonds · 1966, 1971-2013

The fonds contains materials pertaining to the Health Sciences Library at Memorial University.

The fonds is composed of the following series:
1.0 Health Sciences Library Faculty and Staff Christmas Photographs, 1996-2002
2.0 Slides and Audio Cassette of the Health Sciences Library, No. I, 1981
3.0 Health Sciences Library Librarians’ Records, 1984-1994
4.0 Committees, 1975-1978, 1990
5.0 Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, Publications, 1972-2004
6.0 Retreats, 1994-2002
7.0 Memorial University of Newfoundland, Publications, 1966, 1995
8.0 Memorial University Library, Publications, 1993-1999
9.0 Miscellaneous, 1991-1992
10.0 Correspondence and Meeting Agendas, 1974-2000
11.0 Faculty of Medicine Founders’ Archive, 2000
12.0 Health Sciences Library, Annual Reports, 1971-1991
13.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – Documentation, 2009-2013
14.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions - Library Administration, 2005-2013
15.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – Public Services, 2009-2-13
16.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – Information Resources Management, 2012
17.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – Faculty of Medicine Founders’ Archive, 1999-2011
18.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – Collection Development, 2011
19.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – Library Systems and Support, 2012-2013
20.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – NLHKIN, (no documents)
21.0 Heath Sciences Library Email Notifications, 2007-2013
22.0 Health Sciences Library - Administration

Health Sciences Library
CA NL0001 010 · Fonds · 1969

The Medical School and University Hospital project was first considered in the period 1961-1963, and its need and feasibility was supported by Lord Brain in his study and subsequent report on the Health Services in the Province in 1965-1966. It also demonstrated and reaffirmed the MacFarlane report of 1966. Following a conference held in St. John’s in the fall of 1966 to discuss the effects of the establishment of a health sciences centre, a Brief to the Government of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador was prepared and submitted by the University in November 1966. A commitment in principle was made by Premier Smallwood on behalf of the Provincial Government on 18 April, 1967, recognizing the immense benefits, which would accrue to the Province’s health resources as a result of the institution of a medical school and university hospital.

The publication of the Royal Commission on Health Services in Canada and the subsequent establishment of the Health Resources Fund by the Federal Government confirmed the local and national need to train more medical and para-medical practitioners and assisted in no small measure in establishing the viability of the project terms and initial cost. The University, in recognising the close disciplinary relationships between the Health and Life Sciences and the academic and economic benefits, which would be achieved, decided in 1967 to integrate the Life and Health Sciences into one physical and administrative complex. The facilities in this complex would include schools of the health-related professions in a similar close association to the continuing benefit of Newfoundland and Labrador.

In the summer of 1968, following the appointment of the Dean of Medicine, work began on functional planning and development of a master plan for the Health and Life Sciences Centre within the framework of Sir Frederick Gibberd’s master plan for the University as a whole. This planning and development document found here in this collection, is divided into two parts and defines the functional objectives of the proposed Centre, outlines its functional requirements and organization in terms of personnel and space and recommends a plan or framework for its physical development.

The Functional and Development Plan for the Health and Life Sciences Centre at Memorial University represented a further, positive step towards the realization of Newfoundland’s Medical School and University Hospital. Also, it defined the future expansion of the important programmes of the Life Sciences and the establishment of training facilities for the health-related professions.

The functional and development plan was developed to meet the specific needs of Newfoundland and Labrador’s medical system not only in relation to the health services of the Province but also to ensure that fiscal demands arising from the construction of the Centre could be met by the Government in a flexible way. The development concept recommended in this report was not a rigid plan but a system of building the facilities for this very exciting and forward-looking Centre.

The wide range of alternative phasing possibilities meant that the plan would need to be monitored, ensuring that the University’s needs were met, phase by phase, and the Centre’s full potential was realized without inhibiting the basic aim of integration of the disciplines. It was also intended the plan be extremely functional to produce an efficient and economic Centre, both in construction and in operation, and that the design concept proposed would enable the Provincial and Federal Government to embark upon the construction of this Centre with confidence.

The study was performed by Llewellyn-Davies Weeks Forestier-Walker & Bor of London, England and Ottawa, Ontario. The fonds consists of the following series:

1.0 Publications, April 1969

CA NL0001 011 · Fonds · 1969

In February 1968 a report entitled “St. John’s and the Avalon Peninsula - Future Integration of Hospital Services” was submitted to the Department of Health. Combined in this report, at the specific request of the minister, were recommendations for the future role of the St. John’s General Hospital in the region and for a phased upgrading of the hospital. The development plan in this collection is based on the recommendations in that Hospital Services Report, developed into necessary detail, and was completed by Llewellyn-Davies Weeks Forestier-Walker & Bor of London, England and Ottawa, Ontario in June 1969.

The need for a medical school and a university hospital located on campus had been firmly established at the time of this report, first by Lord Brain in the Royal Commission on Health Services in Newfoundland and Labrador, and later by the MacFarlane Commission. Subsequently, the proposal was further endorsed by a Planning Conference to which had been invited distinguished members of the medical professions from Canada, the UK and the USA. Despite the fact that planning and movement had begun on the new 400 bed University Hospital, it was clear that several years would elapse before the new facilities would become available. In the meantime, the General Hospital was intended to maintain essential services to the community and to continue its role in graduate medical education. Pending completion of the University Hospital, the “General”, as it was commonly known, was to participate in undergraduate clinical teaching with the likelihood of maintaining this participation, relative to its later role in the region, as an affiliated teaching hospital.

The report is divided into the following chapters:

Introduction

  1. The Consultants Terms of Reference
  2. The Future Functional Plan
  3. The Redevelopment Requirement
  4. The Existing Hospital
  5. Programme of Redevelopment
  6. Phasing
  7. Engineering
  8. Cost Estimates
    Space Programmes
    Illustrations
CA NL0001 039 · Fonds · 1959-1999

Fonds contains past papers of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada for various subjects including anaesthesia, anatomical pathology, cardiology, cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, clinical immunology, dermatology, etc. Not all dates are available for each paper, either because they were not distributed by the RCPSC or because the library did not retain a copy. Fonds consists of the following series:

1.0 Examination papers (1959-1999)

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
CA NL0001 038 · Fonds · 1894-2006

The collection includes Newfoundland Medical Board Directories (1915-2006) and Registers of licenses issued by the Newfoundland Medical Board (1894-1982). Newfoundland Medical Board Directories are an annual publication providing a complete list of medical practitioners resident in Newfoundland who are registered and licensed. Their professional address, and the date and location of their alma mater are given. The registers of licenses issued to medical practitioners usually indicate the doctor’s name, the date they were given the license, their address, the license number, and their alma mater. A menu from the Newfoundland Medical Association’s annual dinner (1955) is also in the collection.

Newfoundland Medical Board
CA NL0001 008 · Fonds · 1926

The photograph contains names of 46 delegates who attended the 1926 Annual Meeting of the Newfoundland Medical Association.
Dr. Whelan’s papers cover the time he was president of the NMA (1968-1969) and consist of minutes of the various committees of the NMA, correspondence, annual reports and proceedings of an open meeting of a planning conference for the Health Sciences Centre (1966). Pertinent issues in Dr. Whelan’s time as NMA president include: planning for the medical school, introduction of Medicare (MCP), and inefficiencies in outpatient care.

The fonds is arranged in the following series:

  1. Photograph, 1926
  2. NMA Minutes
    2.1. Medical Advisory Committee, February 1968 - January 1970
    2.2. Miscellaneous Minutes, November 1968-September 1969
    2.3. NMA Executive Minutes, 11 February, 1969-21 March 1970
    2.4. Excerpts from Exec minutes concerning specialists 1962-1969
  3. Newfoundland Medical Directory, 1969
  4. Planning Conference for a Health Sciences Centre, MUN Sept 1,2,3, 1966. Proceedings of an open meeting, Sept 3, 1966
  5. NMA AGM Minutes and Reports
    5.1. NMA Minutes and Reports AGM 1969
    5.2. NMA Minutes and Reports AGM 1970
  6. Correspondence June 1968 - March 1970
  7. By-Laws of the Medical Staff of the Salvation Army - Grace Hospital. St. John’s, Nfld. February 1966
Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association
Dr. Kenneth B. Roberts fonds
Fonds · 1976-1989; predominant 1982-1987

The fonds consists of material relating to Dr. Kenneth B. Roberts and his work while in the John Clinch Professor of Medical History position in the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Also contains work on monographs, (published and unpublished) completed and organized by Dr. K.B. Roberts. Fonds is composed of the following series: 1. Correspondence; 2. History of Medicine Material; 3. Newspaper Articles; 4. Slides and Photographs; 5. Materials relating to Caring for the Sick in Newfoundland - unpublished collection of essays edited by Dr. Roberts.

Roberts, Dr. Kenneth B.
Dr. Jan Snellen fonds
Fonds · 2000

Fonds consist of a videotape made during a gathering to celebrate the life of Jan Snellen. The introduction was given by a friend and past colleague in Physiology, Dr. Brian Payton, which was followed by addresses and tributes by friends, family, colleagues and former students who each shed light on the life and career of Dr. Jan Snellen and his involvement with the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Snellen, Dr. Jan B.
Dr. Ian Rusted fonds
Fonds · 1930-1999; predominant 1953-1998

The fonds is composed of the following series: 1. Professional and Administrative Files, 1952-1997; 2. Committees and Councils, 1930-1994; 3. Retreats, Meetings, Seminars, Visits, etc., 1966-1998; 4. Briefs, Reports, Papers, etc., 1950-1988; 5. Hospitals, 1953-1991; 6. Discipline of Medicine Files, Grants and Studies, 1957-1987; 7. General Files, 1957-1998; 8. Universities, Colleges and Health Sciences Divisions, 1949-1998; 9. American College of Physicians, 1957-1998; 10. School of Nursing, 1972-1998; 11. School of Pharmacy, 1966-1991; 12. Vice President (Health Sciences and Professional Schools), 1969-1997; 13. Personal Material, 1948-1995; 14. Faculty Material, 1965-1975; 15. Research, 1957-1991; 16. Societies, Foundations and Associations, 1953-1999; 17. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 1952-1986; 18. Tapes, Slides and Films, 1966-1986; 19. Photographs; 20. Publications.

Rusted, Dr. Ian E.
Dr. H. Bliss Murphy fonds
Fonds · [19-]

The Dr. H. Bliss Murphy fonds contains 159 glass slides, which are arranged by subject in six series. The slides consist of individuals, families, landscapes, buildings, religious ceremonies and work in India, various microscopic images, anatomical diagrams taken from the Anatomy Department, London Hospital Medical Collection, physicians, including famous physicians such as Pasteur, Fleming, and Koch, diagrams of medical experiments, procedures, and microscopic images, as well as unrelated subjects such as biblical images, a human skull, a mummified corpse and a poem.

Fonds consists of the following series: 1.0 India (65 slides); 2.0 London Hospital Medical Collection (12 slides); 3.0 Physicians (11 slides); 4.0 Medical Diagrams (26 slides); 5.0 Microscopic Images (34 slides); 6.0 Miscellaneous (12 slides).

Murphy, Dr. H. Bliss