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Catalogue description Department of Technical Co-operation and successors: Medical Department: Registered Files (MED Series)
| Reference: | OD 29 |
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| Title: | Department of Technical Co-operation and successors: Medical Department: Registered Files (MED Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains files of the Medical Department relating to the promoting and assisting of medical facilities and training in developing countries. It also contains files pertaining to conferences, commissions and international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) on matters like population control and technical assistance in the medical field. |
| Date: | 1964-1967 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | MED file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department of Technical Co-operation, 1961-1964 Ministry of Overseas Development, Medical Department, 1964-1970 |
| Physical description: | 78 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Medical Department was concerned with supporting research into medical problems which affected the developing world, and international co-operation on medical issues. In 1969, the department was absorbed into a Science, Technology and Medical Department which combined medical with broader scientific, engineering and social research work. In 1978, the department was renamed the Science and Technology Department, with medical research moving to a new Health and Natural Resources Department and the following year these two departments were separated to form a new Science and Technology Division. From 1980, medical questions were dealt with by the Natural Resources Department. |
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