MS 9304

Papers of Timothy Murrell



Scope and content note

Papers

MS 9304

1951-2000

18.76 m. (134 boxes)

Available for reference (box 127 closed until 2060)

Timothy Murrell donated the papers to the Library in five instalments between 1996 and 2000.

The collection spans Murrell’s entire career from the 1960s when he was as a medical officer and researcher in Papua New Guinea, until 1996, when his official relationship with the University of Adelaide’s Faculty of Medicine ended. Murrell’s early experiences, both as a student under the notable ‘human ecologist’ Clifford Jungfer, and as a patient suffering from poliomyelitis, were doubtless formative, and contributed to his view of general practice. Unfortunately, there is little direct evidence of these early experiences here, only the evidence of later achievement. Apart from the research series on pigbel and other enteric or intestinal infections, the strength of this collection lies in its tracing the development of the various teaching programs and facilities for the University of Adelaide’s Department of Community Medicine over three decades, in the development of general practice education, and in related public health research.

Dating from the late 1960s, there is correspondence, notes and readings that reflect Murrell’s early interest in general practice and community medicine. From his appointment as Reader (1973) and then commencement of the Department of Community Medicine in 1975, and the elevation of Murrell as its first professor, the papers reflect the approach to medical education and various organisational arrangements in which Murrell was instrumental. These include the establishment of teaching health centres at St Agnes, Ingle Farm and The Parks, the innovation of a Foundation for Multi-disciplinary Education in Community Health managed for a time by Murrell’s Unihealth Research and Development Trust, the Family Practice Unit at Highbury, and later the General Practice Teaching Unit at Modbury Hospital.

Murrell’s research and teaching philosophy come together in his public health research work, reflected here in the series regarding Sudden Infant Death Syndrome which, in common with the pigbel work, reveals his interest in the mesh between the micro- and macro-environmental medicine. Ecological principles and Murrell’s belief in general practice as a venue for meaningful research outcomes are manifested in the progress of later research into fibrocystic disease and breast cancer, Dupuytrens contracture and Multiple Sclerosis. Likewise, the undergraduate and other teaching series illustrate his emphasis on the patient-doctor communication within general practice as a primary factor in achieving successful consultations.

Interestingly, while Murrell maintained long working relationships with colleagues such as John Moss, and collaborations with researchers including P. D. Walker, C. R. B. Blackburn, and Gregor Lawrence (pigbel), D. J. Deller (intestinal motility), and H. R. Winefield (general practice education), it is his connections with institutions that are most apparent in this collection. Research and teaching relied on bonds with organisations such as the Wellcome Research laboratories (UK), the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Mothers and Babies’ Health Association, South Australian Health Commission, the Adelaide Children’s Hospital, the S.I.D.S. Foundation and others.

Arrangement note

The papers were received by the Library in ‘working condition’: that is to say there was much interfiling of research, administrative and teaching material. In many files, research, teaching and administration are often inextricable. As one would expect, especially in regard to a public health educator such as Murrell, much early research work has been cannibalised. The pattern of re-using drop-files without necessarily reorganising or purging has not lent itself to the creation of an accessible file order based on the order in which the files were found. Where it is clear that the file title reflects the bulk of file content, the title has been retained in quotation marks. In many cases, however, existing file labels were inaccurate. Consequently, many folders are described by content listings, and placed within a series heading according to a ‘majority rules’ logic. Even so, there are some file-runs, which have been kept intact, such as for the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome material, some of the pigbel and other research subjects. In any event, the researcher would be well advised to review folder descriptions carefully, as a considerable amount of material relevant to more than one area has of necessity been given a single location.

While the content of most series are self-evident, there are two long series (4-5) relating to the Department of Community Medicine that are more complex. The first is administrative, and covers Murrell’s lengthy involvement with the Department of Community Medicine at Adelaide University, the development of teaching courses and facilities, research, study leave arrangements and so on. The other, focusing on Murrell’s undergraduate teaching, contains largely notes, instructional materials and course information, often re-used and containing a certain amount of research material. Other series are comprised of administrative material, research and teaching together. All series are arranged chronologically, though occasional exceptions occur where the file order within a particular series presents a coherent logic of its own.

The three volumes in series 14 are particularly valuable, representing Murrell’s entire body of published work and considerable amount of unpublished material, including papers outlining Murrell’s approach to community health teaching.


Biographical note

Timothy Murrell was the foundation professor of Community Medicine, in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Adelaide from 1975. In the following two decades he was involved in setting up and running medical education facilities that placed the general practitioner within the community, and, according to this ‘ecological’ model, highlighted the qualities and potential of general practice. He developed a divisional trinity of clinical epidemiology, medical sociology and general practice.

Murrell’s research and teaching philosophy emanated in part from his formative experiences as a medical student. Born in Adelaide on 8 April 1933, he was educated at the Anglican collegiate school, St Peter’s, in Adelaide. He graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1958. While there he spent his voluntary fifth year General Practice elective with Clifford Jungfer, co-founder of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Jungfer practised as a human ecologist, at the community in the Adelaide Hills town of Lobethal. Murrell’s other profound experience was during his first year as a medical student. His encounter with the tail end of a polio epidemic of 1950-52 rendered him almost totally paralysed. He recovered fully from this event, though he spent several months ward-bound in the Infectious Diseases Hospital at Northfield.

After a year as an inaugural R.M.O. at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, Murrell served out a bond with the Department of Territories. Between 1960 and 1964, as District Medical Officer at Goroka, Wabag and Kundiawa, he defined the aetiology and epidemiology of pigbel, a gangrenous intestinal disease predominantly affecting children in the Highlands of New Guinea. His survey, case work and reports led to measures that significantly reduced mortality from the effects of the disease. During the late 1970s, World Health Organisation Fellowships in Tehran and Nepal focused attention on pigbel on a wider scale, and in 1978 Murrell was awarded a World Health Organisation Medical Staff Society Medal. A colleague, Gregor Lawrence, described the pathogenesis and control of pigbel by vaccination, and was awarded the Eric Susman Prize by the Royal College of Australian Physicians in 1980.

Murrell returned to Adelaide as a temporary lecturer in medicine at the University of Adelaide, where he wrote up his M.D. thesis on pigbel. In 1967 he went to work at the General Practice Research Unit at Guy’s Hospital, London, as the Nuffield Dominion Travelling Fellow in Medicine for Australia. Soon after his return Murrell set up the St Agnes Health Centre, based on a concept that had been developed for Thamesmead, an outer suburb of London. As Reader in Community Medicine attached to the Department of Psychiatry at Adelaide University from 1973, Murrell designed and taught subjects in three years across the medical course, introducing community medicine into the undergraduate medical curriculum. His design for the new Department of Community Medicine in the ensuing years was one in which general practice and public health were interrelated. The Family Practice Unit at Highbury, based on his own clinical arrangements, and General Practice Teaching Unit at Modbury Hospital were pioneering centres for undergraduate teaching and research at the Adelaide University, surpassing and complementing general practice education based entirely on preceptorships. The community model advocated by Murrell was similarly reflected in the establishment of teaching health centres at Ingle Farm, The Parks and elsewhere. The Foundation for Multi-disciplinary Education in Community Health was established to provide conjoint education for students from a range of health and social welfare professions.

Murrell was convinced that the general practitioner was an under-utilised player in the world of medical research, and that community-centred general practice provided the opportunity for extending research on a number of frontiers. The idea that a general practitioner should immerse himself or herself in the community shaped Murrell’s own research work, including work on the role of sexual activity in male uric acid metabolism, the hormonal response to female breast stimulation, and the influence of poverty on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Ideas on the association of raw farm products with Multiple Sclerosis were generated by his experience serving as medical officer to the Multiple Sclerosis Society in Adelaide for five years. The pathogenesis of Dupuytren’s contracture came from observations at Murrell’s lawn bowling club. Interest in doctor-patient communication found expression in his teaching, and in later career research into general practitioner-patient communication.

Murrell’s long association with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, liaison with government health services, applications to private and government and private organisations are apparent in his reorganisation of teaching at the University of Adelaide, and in his later research work. Notable private service achievements have included presidency of the Australian Association of Academic General Practitioners, 1989-93, the Royal Society for the Blind, 1990-92 and the Centre of Personal Education (COPE) from 1993. Murrell is also a member of the Adelaide Club. In 1992, he was awarded a Visiting Fellowship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and the following year was elected to the Jenner Educational Trust.

References:

John Moss, ‘Timothy Murrell: the general practitioner as human ecologist’, Australian family physician, November 1994.

Timothy G. C. Murrell, ‘Publications’, volumes 1 and 2, 1996; ‘A chronology of unpublished work, 1971-96. (Murrell papers, MS 9304, Series 15)

University of Adelaide, Department of Community Medicine, Annual reports.


Series list

  1. Pigbel and intestinal motility research, 1960-91
  2. Pikbel Foundation, 1963-92
  3. General Practice Research Unit, Guy’s Hospital, London, and research into family and community medical services, 1962-75
  4. Department of Community Medicine, 1973-96
  5. Department of Community Medicine, teaching, 1973-95
  6. Foundation for Multi-disciplinary Education, and Advisory Board for Multi-disciplinary Health Studies, 1976-91
  7. Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree, 1985-94
  8. Community health centres and facilities, 1972-82
  9. Highbury Family Practice Unit and Modbury General Practice Teaching Unit, 1975-93
  10. Public health research: Multiple Sclerosis, 1977-94
  11. Public health research: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, 1968-94
  12. Public health research: Serum uric acid epidemiology, breast cancer and other subjects, 1973-94
  13. Professional associations and consultancies, 1975-91
  14. Honorary associations, personal and family papers, 1952-99
  15. Writings and publications, 1955-96
  16. Other papers, 1956-2000

Series Description

Series 1 Pigbel and intestinal motility research, 1960-91

The series consists of two primary sequences. The first contains original research material pertaining to Murrell’s time as Medical Officer with the Papua New Guinea Department of Health, 1960-64. The reader should note that a copy of Murrell’s M. D. thesis is contained in series 15. A small amount of material pertaining to Murrell’s subsequent work on intestinal motility at Guy’s Hospital is also included here. The remainder of the series, dating in the main from the late 1970s, focuses on Gregor Lawrence’s work in developing a vaccine, and Murrell’s World Health Organisation Fellowships. Additional material concerning pigbel and enteritis necroticans, including papers taken from Murrell’s original pigbel research, is included in the series for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (series 11).

Folders

1-13 Background material, including maps, first-aid manual, photographs, case histories and hospital reports, c. 1961-62

14-15 Notes and final report on Enteritis necroticans research to Papua New Guinea Department of Public Health, 1962-64

16 Correspondence and other material regarding Murrell as Medical Officer, Papua New Guinea Department of Health, including participation in 1963 World Health Organization training course on the epidemiology and bacteriology of enteric infections; Murrell’s candidature for degree of Doctor of Medicine, 1962-65

17-26 Readings, notes and World Health Organization reports on diarrhoeal effects, enteric infections and infant deaths, 1963-64

27-28 Correspondence regarding bacteriological results, specimen tests, test notes; correspondence regarding paper on necrotizing enteritis, 1963-66

29-31 Notes and data, correspondence and drafts of Murrell’s doctoral thesis, 1963-65

32 Readings for haemolytic aenemia and human red-cell morphology

33 Test results for Papua New Guinea sera

34 Readings on nutrition and child health in Papua New Guinea and ‘other undeveloped countries’, c. 1950s-60s

35 Drafts and publishing correspondence for article, ‘Pigbel: epidemic and sporadic necrotizing enteritis in the highlands of New Guinea’, 1966, and other papers

36-38 Readings on abdominal and intestinal conditions

39 Cirrhosis and hepatitis case reports and readings, 1962-64

40-42 Notes and readings on the pathology of the Kuru, 1964-67

43-44 Drafts and correspondence regarding paper, ‘Pigbel – enteritis necroticans. A study in diagnosis and management’, T. Murrell, L. Roth, J.Egerton, J. Samuels, P. D. Walker

45 Reprints and readings, 1964-66

46 Correspondence regarding pigbel, 1960s-70s

47-81 Correspondence, reports, drafts, notes, with Wellcome Research Laboratories, regarding nomination by Murrell of Gregory Lawrence and Peter Walker for 1977 Nobel Prize, paper contributed to World Organization of National Colleges and Academic Associations of General Practitioners’ World Conference on Family Medicine (8th, 1978, Montreal, Switzerland), and 1978 Geneva W.H.O Medical Society meeting, 1978-79; notes, draft papers, reports, concerning World Health Organization Medical Society meeting, Geneva, 1978; draft methodology and readings, notes and readings for paper, ‘The first six years of pigbel: a historical analysis’; bibliography, 1979-90s for paper, ‘Pigbel in Papua New Guinea: an ancient disease rediscovered’; correspondence and related material concerning publication and research proposals made by Murrell to W.H.O, 1978-79, including notes of W.H.O training program ‘Epidemiology and bacteriology of enteric infections, Tehran, 1963; Readings, correspondence, reports and notes, 1964-78; study leave report 1965, ‘Pikbel and primary health care’, 1978; notes, readings, correspondence regarding visit to United Kingdom to develop vaccine proposals, 1978-79, including material relating to General Practitioner group meeting in Amsterdam; notes, readings, reprints of intestinal motility papers, 1958-90; reprints of intestinal motility papers, 1967-91; readings, notes, correspondence, literature search concerning Pikbel research, 1977-1990; reprints of pikbel papers, 1974-1991; ‘Miscellaneous reprints’: reprints and notes for pikbel and other articles

Added 3 August 1999

82 Pigbel display, Kundiawa, 1964 (photographs)

83 Pigbel correspondence, Adelaide, 1965-66

84 Pigbel photographs, 1960s

85-86 Files relating to pigbel in Nepal and Thailand

Added 13 December 1999

87 Pig-bel slide presentation

88-89 Enteritis necroticans file: PhD, Goroka, 1961-80

Series 2 Pikbel Foundation, 1963-92

Murrell began the Pikbel Foundation in 1979, following the work of Gregor Lawrence in describing the control of pigbel, and his own work for the World Health Organization. Essentially, the Foundation kept the disease before the public eye with the aim of providing financial support and expertise for research, treatment, training health workers, laboratory equipment and information dissemination. The Foundation’s work documented here focused on epidemiological work in Nepal, identification of the disease in Thailand, and development of laboratory facilities in Adelaide. This brief series contains Foundation material minutes describing the administration of the Foundation: its objects, publicity and charitable arrangements, progress and financial position. Intermingled are research papers on pigbel, reworked for Foundation purposes.

Folders

1-11 Foundation minutes, readings, reprints, historical notes concerning establishment of Pikbel Foundation, correspondence, 1981-86;
‘Pigbel 1986’: reports, notes, correspondence, maps, World Health Organization reports, 1963; papers, 1977-78; examiners’ reports, research statements concerning application for Faulding Prize 1989; correspondence with Pikbel Foundation vaccination program in cooperation with Catholic Relief Services, Pikbel Foundation reports and minutes, cuttings and correspondence regarding incidence of Pikbel in Thailand and elsewhere, 1983-86; speech notes and correspondence concerning pigbel film ‘Belly on fire’, and other symposia; correspondence and related material regarding development of vaccine, 1978-79; ‘Pikbel 92’: literature search for Murrell and pikbel, readings, early cuttings regarding pigbel.

Series 3 General Practice Research Unit, Guy’s Hospital, London, and research into family and community medical services, 1962-75

This series marks the beginning of Murrell’s career as a teacher, administrator and promoter of general practice. It consists largely of readings, papers, correspondence and notes prior to the establishment of the Department of Community Medicine, including his early interest in British health centres while at Guy’s Hospital in 1967-68. Subsequent material in this series represents Murrell’s initial connections with South Australian health and medical institutions in developing primary care, general practice and community health care services. Readings on various subjects are included. Additional material concerning the development of community medicine is included with Faculty of Medicine papers at the commencement of the following series.

Folders

1 Reports of University of Oxford medical record linkage studies, 1962-68

2 Reports of visits to health centres in northern Britain, 1966-67

3 ‘Area surveys’: Hindmarsh area research, including cadastral maps showing distribution of general practitioners; report for Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment, c. 1960s

4 ‘Medical benefits town planning’: leaflets and reports pertaining to Commonwealth government medical benefits and health schemes; correspondence with St. Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, and others, c. 1967

5 Notebooks

6 Circulars, minutes, correspondence, reports and pamphlets concerning attendance at Thamesmead Community Health Services, 1967-69

7 Correspondence regarding General Practice Research Unit, 1967-68

8-9 ‘Public health information’: readings, 1960s

10 Reports and miscellaneous readings on general practice, 1960s

11-12 Addresses, notes and readings on general practice, medical education and services

13 ‘Nursing homes’: readings, c. 1971

14 ‘Family medicine’: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ report on departments of family medicine; report on Murrell’s study tour in the United Kingdom, 1973

15 Staffing and accreditation, Modbury Hospital, 1973

16-17 ‘Drugs’ and ‘Drug education’: readings, c. early 1970s

18 ‘Drug companies’: correspondence with Hillcrest Hospital regarding sponsorship of undergraduate and postgraduate training, 1973

19 Correspondence with Urban Systems Corporation regarding proposed ‘Welfare Action Project’ for the City of Adelaide Development Plan, 1973

20 Copies of medical education and general practice leaflets; copy of community health report to National Hospitals and Health Services Commission, 1973

21 ‘College of Nursing’: correspondence and address, ‘Drink and drugs – the doctors’ dilemma’, for ‘Study day’, 1974

22 Reports on establishment of Flinders University School of Medicine, foundation chair in primary care, c. early 1970s

23 Correspondence with the Family Planning Association of South Australia, 1974

24 Counselling and crisis intervention: University of Adelaide Department of Psychiatry course material, c. early 1970s

25 ‘Patient management problem’: questionnaire

26 ‘Australian assistance plan’: progress report, 30 August – 31 December 1973, Australian Government Social Welfare Commission

27 ‘Australian morbidity survey’, 1973

28 ‘Nurse practitioner’: readings on the role of nurses and ‘first contact decisions’ in general practice, notes on suggested course outline for ‘Certificate Course in Community Health Nursing’, minutes of working party, correspondence with Dr O. C. Fuller, South Australian Department of Public Health, reports, readings and notes; synopsis of the reorganization of community medicine in the early 1970s; notes and correspondence with the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Post-Graduate Committee in Medicine, University of Adelaide, and medical professionals, including John Pemberton, Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine, Queen’s University, Belfast, regarding the University of Adelaide centenary; draft lecture regarding Multiple Sclerosis; and statement of objectives and development, Department of Community Medicine, c. early-mid-1970s

29 ‘Community Medicine Degree Courses’: correspondence and notes regarding ‘Community Health Nursing’ course, in cooperation with College of Nursing, 1975; copy of 1971 Canadian report on ‘Nurse Practitioner Educational Program; copy of ‘Community Health Nurse Report, 1974’

30 Referrals and other correspondence regarding health services, 1973-76

31-32 ‘Articles of interest’: readings on health education, influenza, illness behaviour, homosexuality, health care, gonorrhoea, gallstones, maternal and infant welfare, management of handicapped children at home, depression, health indicators, pap smears, c. 1960s-70s

33-34 ‘Community health care’: readings, c. early 1970s

35-36 Miscellaneous readings on community medicine and related subjects, c. early 1970s

37 Miscellaneous readings on psychology and mental health, c. early 1970s

38 ‘Behavioural science’: notes, readings, assignments, 1973-74

39 Miscellaneous readings on family medicine, c. 1973

40 Miscellaneous readings on schizophrenia, childhood accidents and first aid, early 1970s

41 Miscellaneous readings on schizophrenia and psychologists in medical schools

42 ‘Social worker’: readings, c. early 1970s

43 Essay, C. T. Cowell, ‘Social worker participation in general practice’

44 Abortion and therapeutic treatment: readings

45 ‘Alcoholism’: readings

46 ‘Asthma’: readings

47 ‘Epidemiology’: readings, c. early 1970s

48 ‘Examinations’: readings on clinical examinations

49 ‘Obesity’: readings, c. early 1970s

50 ‘Occupational health’: readings, c. early 1970s

Series 4 Department of Community Medicine, 1973-96

This large series traces the formation and work of the Department of Community Medicine and its relationship with the University and outside organisations. The correspondence, memoranda, committee minutes, reports, reviews and other material contained here refer largely to the construction of individual courses and teaching facilities, the advancement of research sponsored by the Department, and on the progress of the Department of Medicine within the Faculty and the University. The series complements the one following on the substance of Murrell’s teaching, and to some extent traces the development of the teaching and community health centres contained in later series.

The present series includes material pertaining to hospitals and other institutions, the role of professional bodies, including the Professors of Community Practice group, Family Medical Practice of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the South Australian Health Commission, politicians and others in the development of community-based health care delivery systems, and in undergraduate training programs in community medicine and general practice. The Family Medical Practice correspondence is of particular relevance in describing Murrell’s community health relationships, and the development of community medicine in Australia during the 1970s. A significant quantity of Departmental correspondence with medical foundations, institutions and universities is included. This pertains in large measure to Murrell’s St Agnes Health Centre and other proposed centres, and papers sketching a framework for teaching community medicine. Later material charts the development of research protocols and general practice education within and outside the Department, including the impact of the Kerr White Review in the mid-1980s. Also evident are ongoing communications with the South Australian Health Commission, South Australian Health Department, and state and federal politicians. Files concerning Murrell’s proposed publication ‘More cutting the tripe’, and correspondence, notes, readings and other material concerning Murrell’s 1992 sabbatical at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, are included.

Folders

1-4 Faculty memoranda and correspondence regarding programs for teaching community medicine, 1973-74

5-7 Departmental correspondence, 1974-78

8-10 Departmental correspondence, 1975-80

11-14 Departmental correspondence, reports, minutes and agendas, circulars and related material, 1975-81

15-27 Departmental correspondence and related material, 1982-85

28 Correspondence, notes, report concerning establishment of Community Medicine as a subject for the Bachelor of Medical Science Honours Degree, 1975-79

29 ‘GEMCO health workshop’: questionnaires and related material, 1976

30-32 ‘Family medical practice’: correspondence, newsletters, reports and papers, 1974-83

33-35 University Study Leave Committee forms, procedures, reports and correspondence, 1975-77; University Research Review Committee notices, memoranda, reports; MUO2 tutorial groups, 1979; miscellaneous correspondence1977-78; University publications calendar and staff lists, 1976-78

36 Study leave notes and correspondence; report of University of Adelaide study leave committee, 1976-78

37 Study leave itinerary, correspondence and notes, Canada, 1978

38 Readings and notes on evaluation of primary health care, c 1970s

39 Illawarra Region Health Committee report: Wollongong University College and Wollongong Hospital submissions on undergraduate and post-graduate medical education, 1973; correspondence and travel arrangements for sabbatical to the United States, 1976

40 Reports and readings on United States public health programs, including geriatric care, c. 1976

41 ‘Health services research’, 1975-78

42 ‘Primary Health Care’: correspondence, readings, papers, including paper by Murrell and J. R. Moss for Australian Society for Epidemiology and Research in Community Health 1975 Dunedin conference; minutes and reports of Australian Society for Epidemiology and Research in Community Health, 1975; copy of application by Murrell to the Department of Community Medicine Research and Publications Committee, 1977

43-46 Readings, course material for University of Adelaide Diploma in Clinical Science, 1976; 6th Year course timetable, notes, overheads; report of Hospital and Allied Services Advisory Council Research Committee, New South Wales; reports and memoranda concerning structure of community medicine courses; MUO2 Community Medicine course material, 1978-88; proposal for integrated Community Health Program; Memorial Hospital redevelopment proposals

47 Miscellaneous conference material and notes, 1976-77

48 Faculty minutes, newsletters and memoranda, 1979-84; submissions to University Council for the 1982-84 triennium

49 Minutes correspondence and notes for Professors of Community Practice group convened by Murrell, 1976-77; seminar paper, Neville Hicks, ‘Coping with the Department’; correspondence with federal Department of Health, Hospitals and Health Services Commission, State ministers of health, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, 1976-77

50-51 Proposal and correspondence, regarding establishment of Masters Degree in Community Medicine, 1977; minutes of Faculty of Medicine committee regarding issue of careers for medical graduates, 1976-79

52-54 Correspondence regarding M.D. and Ph.D. candidates, pigbel, United Kingdom sabbatical, 1977-78, notes on 1981 Weight-Watchers seminar, 1977-83

55 Departmental memoranda and correspondence regarding proposed geriatric rehabilitation unit, 1977-78

56-58 Departmental correspondence and minutes, 1976-79

59-62 Departmental and personal correspondence, 1978-79

63 ‘Study leave – report 1978’: draft report, ‘A study of attachment schemes in a country borough with all its health visitors, home nurses, and domiciliary midwives in general practice attachments’, Timothy Murrell, Mary Ambler, J. A. D. Anderson, Michael Black, Peter Draper, Janet Lewis and W. Moss

64 ‘Study leave’, 1978

65 Correspondence, minutes and proposals to establish teaching and health facilities, 1980

66 Departmental minutes, 1978-82

67 Departmental correspondence, 1980-81

68-69 Faculty minutes and reports, 1978-81

70-72 Correspondence, notes and memoranda regarding M.D. supervision, 1979-80

73 Correspondence regarding arrangements for Centre of Environmental Studies, 1981

74 ‘Promotion appeal’, 1980

75 ‘Conferences – correspondence’: correspondence, programs, readings and abstracts for South Australian Council on the Ageing seminar, 1980, and Second Australian behaviour modification conference, May 1979

76-77 Correspondence, notes, draft papers and related material for conferences and seminars, including Ninth Annual Environmental Health Conference, 1982, discussion of report to Royal Australian Nursing Federation, 1981, 9th International Congress on Hygiene, Preventive and Social Medicine, Belgrade, 1981, general practice seminars, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, 1980-82

78 Departmental correspondence, memoranda and reports, 1980-82

79 Correspondence regarding community medicine, 1981; minutes of University superannuation scheme, 1980-82

80 Correspondence with University departments and Royal Adelaide Hospital regarding introduction of 2nd Year clinical training

81 Correspondence regarding Community Medicine, 1981; letter from Dean of Medical School regarding mentoring, 1982

82 ‘Reports and references’, 1982-83

83-84 Board of Environmental Studies minutes, correspondence and memoranda, 1982-83

85 Referees reports, 1983-84

86 Faculty Ethics Committee, project applications, 1985, 88

87-88 ‘Study leave conferences’, 1986

89 Report and details of leave taken for attendance at the Association of University Teachers of General Practice, Nottingham University, July 1987

90-93 Departmental correspondence, bulk 1987-88

94-95 Departmental correspondence, memoranda, notes, circulars and reports, 1976-79, 1987-88

96 ‘Other departments of community medicine’: correspondence, reports and leaflets, 1988-90

97 Draft submissions to S. A. Health Commission review of general practice; minutes, memoranda regarding Department of Community Medicine Primary and Preventive Care Research Group, 1988

98 ‘UK scholarships’: departmental memoranda concerning scholarships, 1989

99 Conferences, registration and correspondence, 1989-90

100 Correspondence and memoranda regarding committee for appointment of the University of Adelaide Foundation Chair of Rehabilitative Psychology, Hillcrest Hospital, 1989

101 Correspondence and general practice paper by Max Kamien, University of W. A., 1989-90

102 Notes on curriculum for Medicine in the Community, 1989

103 ‘Visiting academics/fellows’: correspondence, minutes, application forms and related material, 1989-91

104 Correspondence, minutes and reports regarding research protocols, c. late 1980s

105 Submissions to S. A. Health Commission regarding establishment of general practice department, 1989

106 Board of Graduate Studies minutes, scholarship proposals, applications and reports, 1991

107 Faculty minutes and reports, 1988-90

108-9 Minutes and memoranda, University executive development programs, 1988-91

110 Applications for clinical titles, 1988-89

111-115 Correspondence, notes, applications and references regarding departmental personnel, 1979-91

116 Memoranda regarding Kerr White review, 1989-91

117 Correspondence with Bob Catley, M. P., regarding improvement of general practitioner education, 1989-94

118 ‘Primary and Preventive Care Group meeting’: minutes, 1990

119 S. A. Health Commission, ‘Primary care strategic plan’, c. 1990

120 ‘University administration’: governance, c. 1990

121 Correspondence with Bob Catley, M. P., regarding funding for undergraduate medical education, 1991

122 Correspondence concerning proposed publication ‘More cutting the tripe’, and on development of general practice with Federal Health Minister Brian Howe, 1991

123 Reports and correspondence with South Australian Health Department and Health Commission concerning primary health care, 1991

124 Departmental memoranda concerning Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee, 1991

125-126 Departmental review and reports, 1991-93

127 Correspondence with S. A. Health Commission regarding Primary Health Care Policy Implementation Steering Committee and related material, 1990

128 Correspondence regarding staff promotion, 1991

129 ‘Overseas students’: scholarship applications for overseas students, 1991-92

130-132 University Board of Graduate Studies minutes, 1992; applications for Priority Awards, University Board of Graduate Studies, 1992

130-33 Papers regarding world conference on family medicine, 1992

134-136 ‘Study leave 1992’: correspondence, notes, readings and other material concerning sabbatical to Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, also concerning Murrell’s proposed book, ‘Great masters of general practice’, 1992-96

137 Correspondence, leaflets, notes, administration regarding Corpus Christi visiting fellowship, 1992-93

138-39 Departmental correspondence and minutes, 1993

Series 5 Department of Community Medicine, teaching, 1973-95

The teaching materials contained in this series are broadly described in the item headings below. As suggested previously, some intermingling of material, while useful in the description of Murrell’s teaching processes, will be confusing to the reader. There are extensive course materials relating to 2nd and 3rd Year Medicine in the Community courses (MUO2/MUO3) from the mid-1970s. Murrell was instrumental in the design of these year levels, and, along with colleagues such as Bob Douglas, coordinated both 2nd and 3rd Years during his time with the Department of Community Medicine. The 2nd Year material covers teaching of epistemology, epidemiology, health economics and social analysis subjects, and arrangements for tutorial electives. The reader should note also that 2nd Year students took part in the Relationships in Community Health program, under the Foundation for Multi-disciplinary Education in Community Health, referred to in series 6. Third Year material represents social and preventive medicine, including arrangements with visiting lecturers. Material relating to Murrell’s 6th Year teaching is included. This generally describes arrangements made for general practice preceptorships, country placements, and course material covering ‘Patient management interviews’, ‘Viva’ and ‘Counselling teaching’ subjects.

Folders

1-2 Readings and notes, c.1973-1978

3 ‘Medical Education Epidemiology’: overheads, lecture notes, overheads, c. 1970s

4 Seminar notes, ‘Spouses of country GPs’, c. late 1970s

5 2nd and 3rd Year, notes, course programs: Community Medicine, general practice counselling, diagnostics and epidemiology, c. 1974

6 Course outlines and timetable, seminar notes for Department of Community Medicine courses, 1975

7 ‘Miscellaneous health problems’: readings, teaching notes and lecture notes, particularly for MUO2/3, c. 1976

8 Policy documents, objectives relating to community medicine course, Departmental agendas and minutes, memoranda and course material, readings, 1976-79

9 ‘1st Year Curriculum Development’: readings, clinical summaries from Modbury Hospital, 1976-79

10 Readings, overheads, handouts and notes for ‘Medicine in the Community’, 1977

11 Overheads and laboratory notes for ‘Laboratory and the Community’

12 MUO2 tutorial lists, syllabi, readings, case histories, Australian Bureau of Statistics survey ‘Recent illness’, 1977-78 (8/2/11d)

13 ‘MUO2 teaching’: examination papers, course materials, 6th Year handbook, memoranda and tutorial outlines, 1977-79

14 Readings, course notes, outline: ‘Community Medicine and the Medical Curriculum’, c. late 1970s

15 MUO2 course material, late 1970s

16-17 MUO2 examination papers, tutorial programs

18 Notes for Community Health Program

19 MUO2 memoranda, handbook and readings, 1980-81

20 MUO2 epidemiology lecture notes, and handbook, 1981

21 MUO2 examination results, tutorial readings, feedback sheet, 1982

22 Memoranda and handouts to tutors for ‘Community Practice’, 1981; ‘Topic Teaching’ programs, 1982-83

23 MUO2 and MUO3 readings, notes and course material, 1982-83

24-26 MUO2 readings and course material, c. 1982; readings on ‘Health Economics’, c. 1982

27 MUO2 seminar, publications, questionnaire, readings, 2nd Year results, 1984

28 ‘2nd Year Teaching’: tutorials, examination papers, course summary, c. 1985

29 MUO2, readings, notes, overheads, c. 1987

30-31 MUO3-4 course and examination material, notes, readings and correspondence, 1977-85

32 Correspondence, examination and course material for Med III and MUO3, 1977, 1986

33 MUO3 lecture, ‘Screening, what value?’, South Australian Health Commission policy statement, notes, correspondence and surveys, c. 1980

34 MUO3 readings and notes, 1981

35 ‘Medical Education Senescence’: MUO3 tutorial readings, 1981

36 Readings on community health care

37-38 Reports, memoranda and correspondence, 1980-82

39-43 MUO3 readings and course material, 1982-84

44 MUO3 syllabi, readings and notes for undergraduate courses, including ‘Prevention in General Practice’, 1983

45 MUO3 course material, guidelines, circulars and correspondence with tutors and students, and with participating general practitioners and organizations, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Family Planning Association, 1983

46 MUO3 field visit lists and breast cancer readings, 1983

47 MUO3, course summary, 1982-4

48-49 3rd Year readings, student streaming, tutorials and related matter, c. late 1980s-early 1990s

50 ‘Medical Education’: readings

51 MUO3, lecture notes

52 MUO3, course notes, tutorials, overheads, c. mid-1980s

53 Readings on health services

54 Student handbook, course outline, selected readings, 1994

55 4th Year, handbook, memoranda, reports, seminar notes, exercises, report to curricula conference, c. 1990

56 5th Year student project reports, 1981

57 5th Year, course material, 1991-92

58-61 6th Year examination and course material: correspondence, circulars, handbooks, course evaluations, student lists, results, examination papers, 1976-82

62 6th Year Community Medicine Assessment Board minutes

63 6th Year course evaluation material

64-65 6th Year course material and notes, correspondence, 1980-84

66-67 6th Year Patient Management Interviews: notes, correspondence, memoranda, readings, list of preceptorships, handouts regarding counselling, 1984

68 6th Year course material: handbook, correspondence, ‘Patient Management Interview’ and ‘Viva’ examination questions, 1985 (8/2/10a)

69 ‘Counselling Teaching’: 6th Year course material, c. mid-1980s

70-72 6th Year course material and placements, c. 1980s-90

73 ‘Excellent essays’, 1989

74 6th Year, essays, 1990-91

75 6th Year examination, course material and correspondence regarding examiners, c. 1990

76 6th Year Examination papers, course notes, memoranda to tutors, country placements, 1988-90

77 ‘Teaching – general’: largely 6th Year course material and notes, c. early 1990s

78 Overheads for ‘Patient Management Interviews’; Community Medicine essays; draft paper on Multiple Sclerosis, c. 1990; reprint of pigbel article 1983; MUO3 mission statement, timetable and syllabus

79-80 ‘General practice’: ‘Ethos of GP’ seminar papers and readings relating to 6th Year and Nursing Studies 2, 1991; research in general practice notes; teaching notes and readings on problem-oriented medical records and medical record-keeping

81 Reports and readings, medical education and training, c. 1986-89

82-83 ‘Teaching references’: readings on cardiac reconditioning centres, coronary heart disease, occupational health, nutrition, smoking, drug abuse, chronic illness

84 Readings for Social and Preventive Medicine, 1995

Series 6 Foundation for Multi-disciplinary Education in Community Health, and Advisory Board for Multi-disciplinary Health Studies, 1976-91

This administrative and teaching series charts the development of multi-disciplinary courses in community health at Adelaide University, bringing together students from medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nursing, psychology, social work, speech pathology, pharmacy and health surveying, and includes details of Murrell’s relationships in community health course during the 1980s. The reader should also refer to the general administrative series 4, and teaching series 5.

The Foundation for Multi-disciplinary Education in Community Health operated under the auspices of the Unihealth Research and Development Trust Incorporated established by Murrell in 1976. This was a key instrument for the administration of a number of teaching facilities, and features in Departmental papers. Following the Kerr White Report in 1985 the University of Adelaide received a financial package from the Commonwealth for the Department of Community Medicine, expanding the staff and accommodation. Another consequence was the amalgamation of the Foundation for Multi-disciplinary Education in Community Health with the Department. Agreement was reached between the University, the South Australian Health Commission and the Foundation for Multi-disciplinary Education in Community Health that its functions be transferred to the Department of Community Medicine. This took place in July 1987.

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1 Memoranda, notes and syllabi for 6th Year participation in multi-disciplinary courses, 1976-77

2-3 ‘Medical Education – FMECH’: correspondence, progress reports, memoranda, list of participating general practitioners, handbooks, minutes, 1977-78

4 Annual report, ‘Multidisciplinary Education in Community Health’, 1983

5 ‘Relationships in community health’: multi-disciplinary course handbook, memoranda, notes, 1981

6 ‘Relationships in community health’ correspondence, memoranda, student assessment, readings, 1983

7-12 ‘Relationships in community health’ correspondence, notes, course outlines, readings, tutorial groups, assessment procedures, assignments, reading lists, timetables, notes, handbook, memoranda, list of participating institutions,1985-87

13 ‘RICH Program’: student results, 1986

14-16 ‘RICH course material’; Nursing Studies, course outline and readings, c. 1987

17 Course material for Community Health Program course ‘Relationships in Community Health’, 1987

18 ‘Bachelor of Health Sciences’: schedule, 1989-90

19 Diploma of Occupational Health, timetable, course outline, 1990

20 Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, ‘Multidisciplinary Education Foundation’, 1990

21 Paper: ‘An ecological perspective of primary health care, Community Nursing Studies 2’, 1991

22 ‘Health care organisation’: notes, course objectives, Flinders University School of Medicine, ‘Introduction to health care organisation’

23 ‘Health notes’: notes on deviance and drugs

24 Miscellaneous course notes and readings on support therapy and counselling, including draft for lecture, ‘The problem of deviance’, an address given to the annual Papua New Guinea Medical Symposium, 1979.

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25 Photographs, 6th Year student projects and seminars, 1976

Series 7 Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree, 1985-94

The Master of Public Health Degree was introduced in 1986 to accommodate part and full time students in a post-graduate course involving thesis research projects. The series includes details of compulsory and elective subjects, and extensive materials for Working in Health Care and other courses. The degree attracted students from many branches of the medical profession, and from nursing, law, social work, administration and medical research. Provision of extra resources by the federal Health Department in 1987 provided enlarged student quotas and expanded course organisation.

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1 Correspondence and material related to establishment of Master of Public Health degree, 1985

2-3 ‘MPH teaching file’, 1988

4-5 ‘Working in Health Care’: notes and readings, 1987-88

6 Notes, overheads on lecture to nurses, ‘Diseases of Public Health Importance’, c. 1988

7-8 ‘Working in health care’ lecture notes, readings tests, tutorial questions, c. 1988

9 Course objectives, 1987-88

10-11 ‘Working in health care’ field trip notes and handouts; written and oral examination questions and assessment, 1988

12 ‘Epidemiology’: readings, 1989

13 Working in Health Care seminar, notes and related material, 1989

14 ‘Working in health care’, course program for non-medical and medical students, 1989

15 ‘Working in health care’ memoranda, lecture notes, student profiles and papers, 1989

16 Readings on diseases of public health importance, 1988

17 ‘Diseases of public health importance’ program, student lists, readings and circulars, 1989

18 ‘Diseases of public health importance - teaching file’: notes and assessment, 1989

19-23 ‘Diseases of public health importance’: readings, course summary, program objectives, examiners’ reports, student feedback and coordinators’ comments, handouts to staff and students, c. 1992

24-25 Tables and overheads concerning ‘diseases transmitted from person to person – Malaria’

26 Course notes, multiple-choice question and answer papers for ‘Control of smallpox and malaria’, 1991

27-28 ‘Working in Health Care’, handbook, student evaluation sheets, course notes, minutes of Board of Graduate Studies, 1992

29 Master of Public Health Board of Studies minutes, 1992

30 Postgraduate teaching: course outline and readings, ‘Diseases of Public Health Importance’, 1992

31 Course evaluations, 1992

32 Readings and course material, ‘Public health biology and disease’, 1994

33 Readings and leaflets, c. 1993

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34 Leaflets, 1986

Series 8 Community health centres and facilities, 1972-82

The series contains details of arrangements made with community bodies to establish community health facilities in a number of centres, including Murrell’s own practice at St. Agnes, and health services attached to centres in Ingle Farm, Flinders Medical Centre, The Park Community Centre, Christies’ Beach and elsewhere. The series covers research into health centre models, management committee minutes, reports, program and funding proposals and supporting documentation. Information regarding University affiliation with the centres may also be found in Departmental minutes and other papers contained in series 4.

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1-5 Reports, correspondence and related material concerning the development of health centres in South Australia, including reference to the planned settlement of Monarto, and development of the Parks Community Centre, 1972-74

6-7 ‘Health Planning – Monarto’: reports and planning models, c. 1970s

8 ‘Ingle Farm Health Centre’: research report, 1974-75; correspondence, minutes, submissions and reports, 1973-79

9-10 ‘St Agnes practice’: reports, notes, draft of ‘An experiment in comprehensive medical care in an urban community’, plan of St Agnes building, correspondence, partnership agreements, minutes, fee schedules, financial statements, 1973-81

11 Notes and correspondence regarding establishment of St Agnes practice; minutes of St Agnes Community Health Centre, 1978

12 Correspondence regarding health and lifestyle centre at St Agnes, 1977

13 Report on Angle Park and Thebarton Community Health Centres; preliminary functional brief correspondence and memoranda regarding income, for ‘modular transportable health centres’; 1975-79

14 R. M. Douglas report on evaluation of primary health care, Royal Adelaide Hospital, 1975

15 R. M. Douglas lecture notes and related material on epidemiology, demography and evaluation of health care, 1976

16-17 ‘ Memorial Hospital’: grant proposals, correspondence, executive minutes, financial statements, audits and reports concerning establishment of Stroke Rehabilitation Unit, 1977-79

18 Correspondence and report for feasibility of community drug information service, 1978

19-21 ‘CHCs’: readings and notes concerning community health centres, correspondence and program material for ‘Issues in community health care’, workshop, Melbourne, July-August 1975; paper on ‘Health centres for Australia’, and other reports, tables, diagram and minutes of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ Community Medicine Sub-committee, 1973; readings, notes and proposals for establishment of a health and lifestyle program, Parks Community Centre, 1980

22 ‘Hospital patients satisfaction survey’: questionnaire, results of day-patient survey, including correspondence with participating hospitals, 1980

23-25 ‘Teaching references’: program for Angle Park Community Health Centre seminar, ‘Health Promotion – A New Role For The G. P.’; readings on general practice and child and adolescent health, sexual function, geriatric health, c. 1980

26 ‘Depts Com Practice’: readings, correspondence, reports about curricula and operations of community health centres, with reference to the Parks Community Centre, 1976; notes, readings and agenda for Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ Council meeting regarding hospitals and health services and university departments of community practice, and submission to government, 1975

27 Official notification from Jennifer Adamson, S. A. Minister for Health, regarding incorporation of Park’s Community Health Centre, 1981

28 ‘Parks Community Health Centre – correspondence’: correspondence, minutes of Management Committee, draft paper on ‘Origins of the Parks Community Health Centre’, and other reports, c. 1975-80; teaching notes and arrangements for 6th Year attachments, and notes in regard to counselling in health care, 1983

29 ‘Parks Community Health centre, Management Committee’: minutes, reports, proposals and supporting documentation, 1980-82; correspondence from South Australian Minister for Health, Jennifer Adamson, notifying incorporation of Parks Community Health Centre, December 1981, constitution, minutes, government gazette notice and correspondence, 1981-82

30 Miscellaneous correspondence 1976, including with Robyn Williams, ABC Science Show

31 Correspondence with Bob Douglas concerning establishment of Health and Lifestyle Promotion Service at Royal Adelaide Hospital, 1980-81

62 Questionnaire and notes for hospital study on health promotion

Series 9 Highbury Family Practice Unit, and Modbury General Practice Teaching Unit, 1975-93

The series includes administrative papers describing the establishment and progress of the Family Practice Unit in the northern Adelaide suburb of Highbury, managed on behalf of the University. Murrell was the central figure in this innovation, which complemented the Department’s reliance on preceptors in the development of general practice education. From its beginnings, the Family Practice Unit combined medical practice and teaching, involving all 6th Year medical students. The series highlights the role of the Unihealth Research and Development Trust, the development of a computer-based record system, introduction of a registrar in community practice, and community partnerships essential to the running of the Unit.

The establishment of a ‘Teacher Training Practice’ connected to Modbury Hospital, was unsuccessfully attempted by Murrell around 1980, partly due to opposition within the medical fraternity, and it was not until 1990 that Murrell further committed the Department to family or general practice teaching facilities. Included in the series are submissions, reports, minutes, notes and other material that depict the early attempt by Murrell to relocate his St. Agnes practice, and the later successful development of the General Practice Unit with the appointment of Dr Robert Moorhead as director.

Murrell’s general practice communication studies with Helen Winefield, are also included in this series. It is important to note that in addition to material pertaining to the Family Practice Unit and General Practice Unit included here, relevant material may also be found in series 4.

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1 Correspondence, notes and report, ‘The use of casualty services by the population of north-east Adelaide’, 1975

2 United Healthcare Corporation, service agreements, 1979

3 Correspondence with Department of Premier and Cabinet concerning medical initiatives, 1979-84

4 Family Medical Practice report; Department of Community Medicine statement of objectives, 1976-82

5-8 ‘Teaching general practice’: correspondence, memoranda, notes, readings, papers, proposal for a ‘University General Practice Unit’, and other material concerning General Practice Unit, 1980-81

9 Correspondence, advertisements and notes concerning establishment of Family Practice Unit, c. 1979

10-11 ‘Highbury Practice Management Committee Minutes’: correspondence, including with Unihealth Research and Development Trust, 1982; Family Practice Unit statement of receipts and expenditure, 1981-82; Unihealth Management Committee minutes and agendas, 1984; Department of Community Medicine correspondence 1979-81; Family Practice Unit client list; copies of Pikbel Foundation handbills; Family Practice Unit correspondence, 1984; corporate plan and minutes of Unihealth Research and Development Trust; list of publications and Family Practice Unit student work supervised, 1981-85; project outline, ‘Effect of unemployment stress on coronary heart disease risk (economic downturn)’; grant application to National Heart Foundation; correspondence, 1981-85

12 Correspondence, 1981-82

13 Correspondence regarding proposed teaching facility at Gumeracha Hospital, 1982

14 ‘F.M.P. – family medicine programme review’: correspondence and reports concerning establishment of Family Medical Practice, c. 1982; correspondence and notes on vocational training for general practitioners, 1977-78

15 Drafts and notes for paper ‘Computer applications for teaching community medicine’, Practice computing, 1985

16-17 ‘Registrar in community practice’: correspondence with W. T. McCoy, Director, Central Section, South Australian Health Commission, regarding establishment of a registrar for the Family Practice Unit, 1985

18-19 Correspondence, grant applications, memberships, minutes, 1985-87

20 Correspondence, minutes, report, Corporate Plan, 1985-86, 1991-92

21 Correspondence and grant application regarding National Community Health Program pilot registration training scheme in general practice, 1986-87

22 Correspondence, notes and drafts, 1981 Working Party Report on Primary Care Teaching Units in Hospitals, 1981-88

23 Family medicine abstracts and articles, 1987-88

24-26 Family Practice Unit memoranda and notes regarding computer study, 1987 (including Thamesmead record linkage study material, 1967)

27-28 Readings on general practice research, c. late 1980s

29 Reports, corporate plan, trust document and notes on confirming management of the Family Practice Unit, 1988-94

30 Memoranda concerning B. Med. Sci. Candidate, 1989

31 Approval of candidature and correspondence regarding ethics protocol and research, 1989

32-34 Minutes, memoranda, submissions concerning Modbury Hospital Primary Care, Department of General Practice, 1989-91

35 Material related to submission to S. A. Health Commission and Modbury Hospital for a Department of General Practice, 1987-89

36 Paper submitted to Australian Family Physician, 1989-91

37 ‘Unihealth Research and Development Trust’: agendas, minutes, reports and financial statements, 1989-91

38 Departmental correspondence regarding development of the General Practice Unit, 1990

39 ‘George Murrell’: literature searches, abstracts, papers and correspondence, c. early 1990s

40 ‘General Practice communication study’: correspondence, grant applications, papers and notes, c. late 1980s

41 ‘General Practice communication study’: Helen Winefield study, c. early 1990s

42 Miscellaneous research on general practice, c. early 1990s

43 Article on counselling general practitioners c.1980

44 Minutes, service agreement, audits and financial reports for Family Practice Unit, 1989-92

45 Conference agenda, readings and reports for multicultural medicine conference, Adelaide, 1990

46 ‘M.D. research’: material relating to Murrell’s supervision of research into disadvantaged groups, 1989-91

47 Correspondence with S. A. Health Commission and review of general practice in South Australia, 1989

48 S. A. Health Commission discussion paper on area health services, 1990

49 Prospectus and letter to participating hospitals regarding ‘Health Omnibus Survey’, 1990-92

50 Readings and papers regarding general practitioners; Modbury Hospital Department of General Practice Newsletter, 1991

51 Draft papers, data, survey material and readings concerning Murrell’s presentation to University of Sydney workshop on development of rural general practice units, 1991

52 Correspondence, discussion documents, proposals regarding establishment of Chair of General Practice, Modbury Hospital, 1991-92

53Correspondence, grant applications, 1991-92

54 Notes for Rural General Practice Units workshop, University of Sydney, 1991-92

55 ‘Rural health’: research program concerning health and well-being of general practitioners’ wives, 1991-92

56 Correspondence, notes and related material concerning Rural Health Care Task Force, 1990

57 Hippocampus, journal of General Practice Research Unit, 1991

58 Correspondence, reports on general practice teaching, 1990-92

59-60 National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health discussion papers regarding general practitioners, 1991-92

61 Memoranda, reports, correspondence, 1992

62 Ian Steven thesis on general practice management of hypertension, 1992

63 General practice student report

64-65 Teaching notes and readings on general practice

66 Modbury General Practice Unit, correspondence, minutes, reports, 1992-93

67 Readings on general practice, including S. A. Health Commission review, 1992

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68 Correspondence, working party report and other papers, 1984-86

Series 10 Public health research: Multiple Sclerosis, 1977-94

Murrell’s work on the disease multiple sclerosis asserted that an environmental factor was involved in the aetiology of the disease. Contained in this brief series are papers, drafts, correspondence and notes that review Murrell’s interest in the sheep-Multiple Sclerosis connection. Murrell’s initial observation was that that the disease occurred with greater frequency in country districts. This anticipated development of a hypothesis that connected farm animals and raw products with involvement of the central nervous system through exposure to brucellosis.

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1-4 Readings, research notes, questionnaire data, correspondence regarding Multiple Sclerosis and sheep; correspondence, including with Professor M. G. McColl, I. Milbank (former Director, Multiple Sclerosis Society), Dr Bill Taylor, Neal Blewett (Commonwealth Minister for Health), John Kurtzke, Dr Richard Burns, and others; Sarcocystis readings; Bureau of Agricultural Economics statistics, notes and correspondence regarding sheep; notes, correspondence and drafts regarding paper, ‘Review of the sheep-Multiple Sclerosis connection; readings on Visna virus, Enterotoxaemia in sheep; correspondence, including with Multiple Sclerosis Society, hospitals and laboratories, Commonwealth Department of Health, National Heart Foundation, Pikbel Foundation, Welcome Institute, Dr Bill McCoy, South Australian Health Commission, c. 1977-80

5 Correspondence concerning grant applications for research into relationship of Multiple Sclerosis with Clostridium perfringens type D. epsilon toxin and sheep meat proteins or sarcocystis infection, 1982-83

6-7 Hyperbaric oxygen therapy research, notes and correspondence, 1980

8 Notes, readings and correspondence regarding hyperbaric oxygen therapy research applications, 1985

9 Hyperbaric oxygen therapy readings and correspondence; Royal Adelaide Hospital, copies of geriatric case assessments, 1983

10-14 Reprints of paper, ‘Multiple Sclerosis – one manifestation of neurobrucellosis’, Medical hypotheses, 1990; paper for typing and submission to Community health studies; research application and related material on hyperbaric treatment, 1984-89; study proposal

15 ‘MS study’: correspondence with Julia Farr Centre and Multiple Sclerosis Society, 1983-84

16 Readings on epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis

17-18 Correspondence regarding research applications, 1984-86; ‘MS – UK research data’: correspondence and reports, questionnaires, notes

19 Miscellaneous readings

20 Research application with John Casley-Smith, 1984; draft paper and correspondence, 1986; Multiple Sclerosis distribution, correspondence, 1985

21-22 Readings, papers, citation lists, correspondence with Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis (London), with Multiple Sclerosis Society, Catholic Relief Services, research applications, 1986-90

23-25 Research notes, correspondence, draft paper, ARMS applications, readings and reports, 1989-90

26 Elisa technique results, 1987

27 ARMS leaflets and pamphlets

28Offprints and correspondence for paper, ‘A review of the aetiology of Multiple Sclerosis: an ecological approach’, 1990

29 Draft paper on polio

30 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1990

31 Miscellaneous readings

32 Correspondence, notes, readings and paper on Multiple Sclerosis and brucellosis, 1991

33 Correspondence, reprints and related material, 1990

34 Multiple Sclerosis and brucellosis citation list and references, 1991

35 Notes, correspondence and memos and research proposals, 1991-94

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36 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis correspondence, 1982-85

37 Lawn bowling project (therapeutic benefits of indoor bowling), 1986

Series 11 Public health research: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, 1968-94

This series is quite discrete compared with others in the collection. It is limited in the main to Murrell’s relationship with the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Association of Australia and the Adelaide Children’s Hospital. The files have generally been retained in their original order.

Murrell’s research into anaerobic toxins contributed to a model for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome related to his observations of a cot death case early in his general practice experience at Tea Tree Gully. The series contains draft papers, hypotheses, notes, readings, research funding applications and reprints that represent Murrell’s ecological view of the disease, investigations into the reducible risks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and hypotheses regarding bacterial toxins and the possibility of vaccine potential.

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1 Readings on social paediatrics, c. late 1960s-1970s

2 Papers, research, readings, correspondence and grant applications regarding cot deaths, c. early 1980s

3 Draft papers, hypotheses, correspondence, slide negatives, 1989

4 Readings concerning ‘Second National S.I.D.S. Workshop’, St Mary’s College, Melbourne, 1979; notes and paper contributed to Medical Hypotheses, 1987: ‘A hypothesis concerning Clostridium perfringens type A. enterotoxin and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)’

5 Readings on abortion, contraception, emotional and psychological aspects of hospitalisation and children, c. early 1970s

6 Paper ‘Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): are common bacterial toxins responsible, and do they have vaccine potential’, 1987; application to Sudden Infant Death Foundation, correspondence, notably with The Lancet, regarding bacterial theory, 1979; correspondence with Mothers and Babies’ Health Association, regarding food hygiene, 1980; correspondence and paper on child-rearing to Child, Adolescent and Family Health Service conference, 1982; miscellaneous notes

7-9 Correspondence, readings concerning S.I.D.S. and botulism, with South Australian Health Commission, Adelaide Children’s Hospital, South Australian Minister for Health, 1979; presentation by Murrell to ‘Second National S.I.D.S. Workshop’ on Pikbel and S.I.D.S., 1979; correspondence with Central and district Boards of Health, regarding S.I.D.S. and botulism study, 1980; miscellaneous S.I.D.S. correspondence, 1980-82

10 Citation list, 1982

11 ‘Case control study’, 1980-81; serum study, 1982

12-13 ‘SIDS references’

14 Correspondence, 1982-85

15 Correspondence, research notes, reports, 1989-90

16 Papers, notes, overheads relating to 1991 article in The Lancet by Murrell and J. R. Moss; copy of 1987 article by Murrell; correspondence and notes between Murrell and Dr W. G. Murrell, Department of Microbiology, University of Sydney, Dr A. Farrante, Department of Immunology, Adelaide Children’s Hospital, W. B. Taylor, Department of Statistics, University of Adelaide, regarding development and testing of a polyvalent vaccine for S.I.D.S.; copies of applications for laboratory work through Australian Commercial Research Development Limited, and LUMINIS Proprietary Limited. c. late 1980s

17 Copy of W.B. Taylor’s statistical study of infant deaths; a laboratory study on Clostridium perfringens; results of 1984 Western Australian study of infant death pathology results; notebook containing notes on history of cot deaths since 1955

18-19 Research applications to: Adelaide Children’s Hospital Research Trust, Channel 10 Children’s Medical Research Foundation of South Australia, National Health and Medical Research Council, particularly regarding the role of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin in S.I.D.S., 1981-82; to South Australian Department of Labour, Job Creation Unit, 1983, for research assistant; to Australian Commercial Research Development Limited, 1989, LUMINIS, 1989, and to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Foundation Research Grants, 1991; pathology report, correspondence to Mothers and Babies’ Health Association regarding seasonal variation, and subsequent circular to child centre staff; application, Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, 1980-81

20 Correspondence relating to 1986 article by Murrell and J. R. Moss

21 Research reports, notes, particularly regarding study of baby and family health care, 1978

22-24 Applications for research funds, questionnaire and research results, drafts of paper, ‘Clostridium perfringens Type A. enterotoxin and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)’, for New England Journal of Medicine, 1986; Draft paper, correspondence, research data and application for project grant assistance, including report to United Nations Border Relief Operation, 1986; research, data, correspondence on feeding practices, 1980

25 Draft paper, notes, data, correspondence with Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, regarding Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin article, 1982-85

26-30 ‘Enteritis Dis.’: correspondence, chapter drafts, notes for contribution to Anaerobic infections in humans, Finegold and George (eds.), 1986; readings on Dupuytrens contracture and iron absorption, calcium absorption, on medical anthropology, epidemiology, 1960s-70s

31 Reprints, draft papers and readings on Enteritis necroticans and Pikbel; readings, citation lists and some correspondence for United Nations Border Relief conference, Bangkok c.1985-90

32-35 Readings on necrotizing enteritis

36 Reprint of Clostridium perfringens paper, readings, research application to LUMINIS Proprietary Limited, 1989

37 ‘SIDS 1992’: student papers, early 1980s; delegates list for Second SIDS Family International Conference’, Sydney, 1992; readings, including reprint of paper by William Murrell et al, ‘Role of Enterotoxigenic bacteria in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; grants-in-aid information, National SIDS Council of Australia; reprint of Murrell’s paper, ‘An environmental approach to the aetiology of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome’, other readings and references

38-42 Notes and draft for Clostridium perfringens paper; readings and draft paper, ‘A hypothesis concerning C. perfringens type A enterotoxin and SIDS’, publishing correspondence with The Lancet, application to the SIDS Foundations, 1979-84

43 ‘SIDS research papers’: draft and photocopies of article in Medical hypotheses, 1987; questionnaires and correspondence with Mothers and Babies’ Health Association, 1980, statement of hypothesis, tables and graphs, readings, Adelaide Children’s Hospital statistics, South Australian statistics, notes, correspondence and related material, c. 1980

44 Readings and student essays, c. 1985

45-46 ‘SIDS references’: correspondence and cuttings regarding alleged link between S.I.D.S. and honey, 1979; S.I.D.S. leaflets, maps, correspondence with APEX, 1982; statistics, notes, readings and minutes of meeting between Murrell, D. Bowler, D. Morris, J. Moss, 1981 outlining strategy for a case control study of S.I.D.S.; readings and papers on S.I.D.S., C. perfringens, respiratory infections, botulism, Pikbel, c.1980s

47-49 Readings on S.I.D.S. and Clostridium perfringens, progress report for study of S.I.D.S. and feeding and sucking; readings and reading lists on smoking and pregnancy and S.I.D.S., c. late 1970s

50 ‘Sudden Infant Death Research Foundation Inc’: applications and notes, 1988

51-53 ‘SIDS – toxins’: readings, leaflets, notes and correspondence, including with the Mothers and Babies’ Health Association, concerning draft of paper, ‘Cot death – a toxigenic ecological hypothesis’, 1980; correspondence with Dr Trevor Willis, Public Health Service, Luton, U.K., and with the Adelaide Children’s Hospital, readings and draft of paper concerning ‘The role of enterotoxigenic bacteria in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome’, 1988; readings, correspondence drafts and tables for paper, 1989-90

54 ‘SIDS – climate’: data supplied by Bureau of Meteorology, 1986-89

55 Miscellaneous research grant applications, 1989-91

56-57 ‘SIDS – case control study’: survey of infant sucking and feeding practice, using metropolitan and country Board of Health reports, c.1980; research method for control study

58-59 ‘SIDS toxin references’: correspondence, leaflets, readings, drafts and galleys for ‘Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): are common bacterial toxins responsible, or do they have a vaccine potential’; enterotoxin overheads; readings, especially on Clostridium perfringens, 1993-94

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60 Early SIDS research, 1982

Series 12 Public health research: Serum uric acid epidemiology, breast cancer and other subjects, 1973-94

The readings, research proposals, notes, reports, hypotheses, correspondence and other material contained in this series provide evidence of applied and hypothetical research on a broad range of public health questions. Much of this work arose from Murrell’s general practice emphasis. Most notably, Murrell’s research into uric acid levels in men and breast cancer in women posed behavioural solutions. The series contains research material, including draft papers and notes focusing on these two issues, followed by research and readings on a variety of subjects, including hypothetical work on the drug allopurinol and the resolution of Dupuytren’s contracture.

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1-3 Cross-tabulation, factor analysis regarding uric acid and heart disease, readings, correspondence, survey material, concerning uric acid and heart disease, pertaining to Bus drivers’ survey, c 1976-1980

4 ‘S.U.A. research’: draft paper, ‘Behavioural variables and serum uric acid values; lecture notes, 1973-84

5 Dr Ramesh Jadham – alcoholism study and related material, 1977

6 Age-serum uric acid cross-tabulation printout, 1976

7 ‘Health screening research’: data, correspondence, readings, citation list, 1980

8 Research application form for grant-in-aid, Life Insurance Fund of Australia and New Zealand, 1979

9 Correspondence, grant applications, questionnaire results, c. 1979

10 Royal Adelaide Hospital uric acid questionnaire, 1981

11 Correspondence regarding ischaemic heart disease and serum uric acid levels in men, 1981

12 Questionnaire regarding stress factors and work

13-14 Readings on uric acid research and coronary risk factors

15-16 Miscellaneous readings and serum uric acid studies, 1980s

17 Readings and questionnaire for drug and other high blood pressure treatment protocols; correspondence with South Australian Health Commission 1987; correspondence with SANZOZ Australia, Pharmaceutical Division Proprietary Limited regarding protocols and assessment of LOMIR, 1987; draft of ‘A Proposal to Improve Arrangements for the Training of General Practitioners in South Australia’, 1981

18 Brief correspondence, Julia Farr Centre Ethics Advisory Committee minutes, 1985

19 ‘Research project participation’: correspondence and reports; LOMIR comparative study, 1988; SCH 39720 efficiency and safety study, 1987

20 Reprint of ‘Behavioural variables and serum uric acid values – a new hypothesis’; draft paper, notes and speculations on male sexual behaviour, readings, 1984

21 ‘Heart research’: notes and readings, 1980s-90s

22 ‘Hypertension study’: reports and readings, 1988

23-24 Publications and correspondence concerning uric acid research, including paper by William Murrell; correspondence and minutes Medical Research Advisory Committee; grant application Children’s Medical Research Foundation; correspondence regarding proposal to Drug Addict Treatment Aboard; miscellaneous abstracts; correspondence regarding ‘Science of Alternative Medicine Conference’, alcohol and drug treatment workshop, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australian Medical Association General Practitioners’ conference, application concerning Tobacco Rich Foundation, c. 1980-90

25 Miscellaneous research applications and correspondence, 1986-87

26 Correspondence regarding Murrell’s paper on breast cancer in Medical hypotheses, 1991

27 Readings and statistics on cancer and mortality, c. late 1980s

28-30 Draft papers, cuttings and correspondence and related material concerning nipple stimulation, oxytocin secretion and breast cancer, 1989

31 Study proposal for the New South Wales Cancer Council, 1990

32 Information leaflets, notes and South Australian statistics for breast cancer, 1991

33 Correspondence and memoranda regarding cancer and particularly breast cancer, 1991

34 Readings for breast cancer research, 1992-93

35-36 Readings, papers and correspondence, student reports on nipple stimulation and breast cancer, 1994

37 Pap-smear research, Dr Moorhead

38 ‘Human ecology study’: correspondence, reports and associated material for proposed ‘biomedical survey’, including detailed proposal ‘for an holistic, integrated study of human ecology of Adelaide’, 1977-79

39 Notes, correspondence, questionnaire and results for hospital patient survey, 1979

40 Correspondence and other material, allergic disease research, 1980

41 Notes, protocol, questionnaire to general practitioners regarding pneumococcal vaccine trial; notes on statistics regarding females treated for gout; morbidity survey, 1980-82

42-43 ‘Research – general’: reports, readings, memoranda and drafts concerning Murrell as referee, c. late 1980s-90s

44 Dr A. J. Michael (Division of Human Nutrition, C.S.I.R.O.): correspondence regarding ‘Health Statistics Workshop’, 1985; paper, correspondence, notes and data, 1987, regarding ‘healthy worker effect’

45-47 Report on LOMIR diuretic, 1988

48 Study proposal for a chronic illness study, c. 1990

49 Research listing and handbook for Perth convention of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, 1990

50 Report, ‘Sexually transmitted diseases in Australia’ and notes

51 ‘Surveys’: brief correspondence regarding participation in public health and A.I.D.S. surveys, 1985-91

52 ‘AIDS’: various readings, c. mid-late 1980s

53 Draft paper for ‘Child poverty in Australia’ conference, 1988

54 ‘Social Welfare Research Centre’: conference paper by Michael Howard, 1989

55 Publishing correspondence and data for ‘Living loving longevity’, Journal of sex research, c. 1990

56 ‘Living loving longevity’: reprint, draft, correspondence and notes, 1990

57 Letter from Warren Dowsett, and report on mercurialism, 1991

58 ‘LIKON study’: Myalgic encephalomyelitis paper, 1991

59 Readings on back pain and neck injury, c. 1991-92

60 Correspondence, readings and George Murrell’s paper concerning treatment of Dupuytrens contracture with Allopurinol, 1992

61-62 Readings, reports and paper by George Murrell concerning Dupuytrens contracture and nitric acid, c. 1986-92

63 ‘Departmental research’: proposals for research projects, 1991

64 ‘Diet and asthma study’: Murrell supervised study report and readings on free radicals and ganglia, readings on fibrosis, c. 1987

65 ‘Free radical research’: correspondence, papers concerning G. A. and Dedee Murrell work on free radicals, 1992

66 Readings on Popperian approach to epidemiology

67 Aboriginal health reports

68-69 Miscellaneous readings on serum uric acid, drugs and drug abuse

70 Correspondence, notes and abstracts for breast cancer conference, 1994

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71 Other projects: Dupuytren’s contracture, hypertension, ecology, SIDS enterotoxin, 1985-86

72 Dupuytren’s contracture study – patient records, 1985 (Closed for 75 years)

Series 13 Professional associations and consultancies, 1975-91

Murrell’s long association with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and other professional bodies are covered in previous series. This series provides a venue for material that does not on the surface conform to the services and institutional connections represented in previous series. Importantly, it includes material relating to Murrell’s ‘Lend-a-hand’ project with the St. Peters’ Bowling Club, and Jubilee Bowls Project.

Folders

1 Australian Medical Association pamphlets and circular concerning ad hoc committee formed in regard to forthcoming State and Federal elections, 1974

2 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Education Committee minutes, reports and correspondence, 1974-76

3 ‘RACGP – SA Faculty – general’: reports, minutes and correspondence, 1974-82

4 ‘Conventions and seminars’: readings, correspondence and paper, ‘Crossing the frontier of discovery in family medicine’, for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners seminar, ‘Evaluation of primary care delivery and family medical practice’, May 1975; small amount of correspondence concerning presentation to Royal Australian College of General Practitioners convention, August 1975

5 Minutes of Clinical Professors’ Association, 1975-83

6 Leaflets, correspondence for ANZAAS congress, 1979-80

7 Correspondence, leaflets concerning World Organization of National Colleges and Academic Associations of General Practitioners’ World Conference on Family Medicine, Switzerland, 1978, 1981

8 Correspondence with Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Professors of Community Practice, and Research Committee of Council, 1985-86

9 Keynote address, ‘Contributions from general practice to human ecology’, to Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ symposium, 1985

10 Correspondence, reports and applications regarding Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Quality Assurance and Continuing Education Program, 1993-94

11 ‘Screening Chronic Illness’: readings, notes and report for Royal Australian College of General Practitioners ad hoc committee on computer techniques and multi-disciplinary screening with special reference to ‘preventicare’

12 Minutes, Australian Association of Community Physicians, 1985-86

13 Minutes, correspondence, leaflets regarding Australian Association of Community Physicians, 1988-90

14 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners correspondence and reports, 1988-91

15 Newsletter of the Australian Association of General Practitioners, 1991

16 Circulars and annual reports, General Practitioners’ Association (U.K.), 1988-92

17 ‘GP Writers’ Association’ (U.K.): Register of authors, 1987-88, programs for meetings and study days, excerpts from The GP writer, 1986-88

18 Minutes and related material, Environmental Health Committee, Australian Medical Association, 1989-90

19 Lymphoderma Association of Australia, Newsletter, 1990

20 ‘Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’: newsletters, 1990-91

21-22 ‘Jubilee Bowls Centre’: correspondence, minutes of Board of management, leaflets, report regarding ‘Lend-a-hand project for bowlers with disabilities, in cooperation with St Peters’ Bowling Club, 1990-92

23 Correspondence and minutes for Jubilee Bowls Centre, 1983-92

24 Jubilee Bowls Centre correspondence, fundraising, 1983-85

25-26 ‘Jubilee Bowls Project 1987’: application forms, reports and correspondence regarding fundraising, 1987-92

27 Addresses for GROW seminar, Kings Cross, 1976

28 ‘Human achievement skills training’: training materials, notes, assignments for Centre of Personal Encounter course, 1982

29 Leaflet, meeting agendas, minutes of Centre of Personal Encounter Incorporated (C.O.P.E.), 1995-97

30 ‘Menzies Foundation’: referee correspondence and applications, 1984-85

31 Reprints of papers for Medical Benevolent Society conference on health of doctors, 1989

32 Seminar paper, ‘An Ecological View of Primary Health Care’, delivered to GROW, 1989

33 ‘Citizen Ambassador Program’: correspondence and registration forms for People to People International program, toxicology delegation to the Soviet Union, 1991

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34 Recreation Association for the Disabled (SA), 1985

Series 14 Honorary associations, personal and family papers, 1951-99

Included in this series are papers giving evidence of Murrell’s University, community service, and private affiliations. In addition, there are curricula vitae, and a limited amount of personal and family history material.

Folders

1 Curriculum vitae, 1972-74

2 Curriculum vitae, certificates; curriculum vitae George Murrell; Murrell’s application regarding Foundation Chair in Community Medicine, Adelaide University, 1974; miscellaneous personal correspondence; family tree, James Morrisby, c. 1974-94

3 Appointment diaries, 1983, 1989

4 ‘Royal Society for the Blind’, 1991

5 ‘University Staff Association’: memoranda, 1990-91

4 Personal correspondence, 1989-96

5 Miscellaneous cuttings and correspondence, 1994-96

6 Miscellaneous papers and correspondence, c. 1994

7 Curriculum vitae, correspondence, leaflets, invitations, family writings, photographs, c. 1990s

10 ‘Hall of names’ charter for Calvert

11 Correspondence, cuttings, notes, certificates, 1995-96

12-13 Minutes, reports, correspondence and memoranda of St Peter’s Old Collegians Association, 1995-96

14 Correspondence, circulars and related information concerning the Adelaide Club and Adelaide Bowling Club, c.1990s

15-17 Minutes, reports, financial statements and related material regarding the Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, c.1981-1996

18 Correspondence, circulars and reports regarding the Woodlands Church of England Girls’ Grammar School, 1979-83

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19 Silver Jubilee Dinner, St Peter’s College, Adelaide, 1976-77

20 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1977-85

21 Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, 1985-87

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22 Personal correspondence, 1952-99

23 University of Adelaide lecture notes

24 Collegiate School of St Peter school magazines, 1946-52

25 Family photographs, 1978-95

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26 Personal correspondence, 1951-99

27 Diary, 1999 including photographs, newspaper cuttings, correspondence and other papers

Series 15 Writings and publications, 1955-96

The series consists of miscellaneous drafts, reprints and reviews. Importantly, the series contains three volumes of seminal published and unpublished writings compiled in 1996. His M. D. thesis is also included here.

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1 ‘Publications, Volume 1’: ‘Personal history’, ‘Pigbel & other PNG studies’, ‘Reports, addresses and presentations’, ‘Other small bowel research’, ‘Sudden Infant Death Syndrome’, ‘Multiple Sclerosis’, ‘Breast cancer’, ‘Uric acid epidemiology’, 1961-96

2 ‘Publications, Volume 2’: ‘General practice communications’, ‘Community health’, ‘Primary health care/ general practice’, ‘Reports, addresses and presentations’, 1955-96

3 Volume: ‘A chronology of unpublished works’, 1971-96

4 Various writings and publications, including Murrell’s thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine, University of Adelaide, ‘Pigbel (Enteritis necroticans): the recognition and study of a gangrenous enteritis in the highlands of New Guinea’

5 Reports produced by the University of Adelaide Department of Community Medicine and Foundation for Foundation for Multi-disciplinary Education

6-7 Miscellaneous papers, conference proceedings and publications

8 VHS video recording: ‘Belly on fire’ and ‘A place to call home’

9 Miscellaneous readings and reports

10 S. Beal thesis on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

11-12 Miscellaneous readings and reports

13 George Anthony Calvert Murrell’s 1988 thesis ‘Studies in Dupuytrens contracture’, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Oxford

14 Reviews and cuttings regarding Cutting the Tripe: paradigms about the practice of medicine in the community, edited by Murrell and Marguerite Barker, c. 1980

15 Miscellaneous correspondence and offprints, 1975-83

16 Correspondence regarding Murrell’s contribution to an unnamed publication by John Richards, 1989

17 Correspondence regarding textbook in public health, 1982

18 Correspondence and papers for proposed book, ‘Masters of general practice’, 1991

19 ‘Textbook in general practice’: correspondence regarding Murrell contribution to proposed publication on famous general practitioners, 1991

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20 ‘Enteritis necroticans in the highlands of New Guinea’ (MD thesis), early draft and papers, 1961-64

21 Articles by Murrell and others and correspondence, 1985-86

22 Papers regarding contribution by Murrell to Anaerobic infections in humans, 1985-86

23 Curriculum vitae of T.G.C. Murrell and articles by Murrell and others, 1968-86

24 Reprint requests, 1987-88

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25 'Report to Nuffield Foundation and Guy's Hospital Medical School' by T.G.C. Murrell, 1968

Series 16 Other papers, 1956-2000

This series contains files containing lecture notes, course information, photographs and other papers relating to Murrell’s university degree, studies in tropical medicine, work in New Guinea and his 1978 World Health Organisation consultancy.

Added 3 August 1999

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1 Film (8mm) Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956 and Anaesthetics (lecture material), 1958

2 Photographs, transparencies and slides, mainly Wabag, Kundiawa and Goroka, 1960-64

3 Wabag Hospital statistics, 1961-63

4-10 Diploma in Tropical Health and Hygiene, 1962

11 Research in Rhinoscleroma, 1962-64

12 Photographs (New Guinea), 1963-79

13 ‘Medicine in New Guinea’, lecture to medical students, 1965

14-18 Files relating to Murrell’s World Health Organisation consultancy with the Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, to review and evaluate the community medicine courses, 1976-78

Added 13 December 1999

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19 'Policy implications of health inequalities' by John R. Moss (Master of Social Science, 1984)

Added 13 March 2000

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20 General correspondence and research papers, 1992-2000

21-26 Appendices I-XXX, 1 Jan.-31 Dec. 1999. Ring binder maintained by Murrell containing research articles, correspondence, cards, agenda, family papers and other papers, 1991-2000


Box list

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16 23-25 132
May 1999
Last updated September 2001