IDNO

T.143108.JEN

Description

Place

Europe Mediterranean; ?Spain

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Jenner Collection

Source

Jenner, Richard (Dr)

Format

None

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Collector: Collected by the donor Dr Richard Jenner, now a Retired General Surgeon, Kettering, during a year’s Voluntary Service Organisation while a clinical student at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, Imperial College London. He was based at Nonga Base Hospital, Rabaul, New Britain and carried out health patrols throughout the island of New Britain, especially within Wide Bay. He also gave measles vaccination in the Mortlock and Tasman, and the Carteret atolls, May/June 1964 –May 1965.

Related Archives: The typed original of the donor’s report from the Wide Bay patrol with details of the population’s health, treatments and his handwritten diary of the Mortlock trip, April- Sept 1964 are offered to the archives along with several books, reports and items in pigin. Also an article by the donor printed in The Lancet and St. Mary’s Hospital Gazette.