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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0100 KCLCA KH/PP6
- Title
- FRANKLIN, Alfred White (1905-1984)
- Date(s)
- 1941
- Level of description
- Collection (fonds)
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 1 envelope
Context
- Name of creator(s)
Franklin, Alfred White, 1905-1984, Honorary Consulting Paediatrician
- Administrative / Biographical history
Born, 1905; educated, Clare College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London; Lawrence Scholarship and Gold Medal, St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1933 and 1934; Temple Cross Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1934-1935; Honorary Consulting Physician, Department of Child Health, St Bartholomew's Hospital; Honorary Consulting Paediatrician, Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, London; co-founder, The Osler Club, London; President, British Society for Medical History, 1974-1976; President, International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, 1981-1982; died, 20 September 1984.
Publications: Editor of The care of invalid and crippled children (Oxford University Press, London, 1960); editor of World-blindness or specific developmental dyslexia (Pitman Medical Publishing Company, London, 1962); editor of Cancer report 1948-1952 with M P Curwen (E & S Livingstone, Edinburgh & London, 1963); editor of Children with communication problems (Pitman Medical Publishing Company, London, 1965); editor of Selected writings of Lord Moynihan (Pitman Medical Publishing Company, London, 1967); editor of Assessment and teaching of dyslexic children with Sandhya Naidoo (London, 1970); compiler of The Tunbridge Wells study group on non-accidental injury to children: report and resolutions (Tunbridge Wells, 1973); editor of Concerning child abuse: papers presented by the Tunbridge Wells study group on non-accidental injury to children (Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1975); Pastoral paediatrics (1976); Widening horizons of child health: a study of the medical health needs of children in England and Wales [1976]; editor of The challenge of child abuse: proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine, 2-4 June 1976 (1977); editor of Child abuse: prediction, prevention and follow up (1977); editor of The abused child in the family and in the community: selected papers from the second international congress on child abuse and neglect, London, 1978 with C Henry Kempe and Christine Cooper (1980); editor of Family matters: perspectives on the family and social policy (1983).
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
King's College Hospital
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Photocopies of letters, 1941, to Franklin replying to his enquiries about papers of Sir George Frederic Still, Consulting Physician for Diseases of Children and Emeritus Professor of Diseases of Children, King's College London; includes a newspaper cutting listing the memorial service held for Still.
- System of arrangement
1 envelope
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
- Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
- Language/scripts of material
English
- Finding aids
Handlist available in the reading room of the College Archives.
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
King's College London College Archives
- Related units of description
Further sources for Franklin's work at King's College Hospital are King's College Hospital Committee of Management minutes (ref: KH/C/M/M), and the King's College Hospital Gazette (ref: KH/SER40), held by King's College London Archives.
Description control
- Archivist's Note
Sources: Who's Who 1897-1996, CD-ROM (A & C Black); British Library OPAC 97; Historical Manuscripts Commission online National Register of Archives. Compiled by Annabel Dodds.
- Rules or conventions
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second edition, 2000.
This catalogue is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. This catalogue may be updated from time to time in order to reflect additional material and/or new understandings of the material.
- Date(s) of descriptions
May 2000.
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Subjects
- Documents
- Information sources
- Manuscripts
- Medical sciences
- Paediatrics
- Surgery
Personal names
- Franklin, Alfred White, 1905-1984, Paediatrician
- Still, George Frederic, 1868-1941, Paediatrician
Corporate names
- King's College London College Archives
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