Parsons, Allan Chilcott (d. c. 1946)

Ministry of Health 'Office guide to records of work carried out by A C Parsons 1919-1936' covering his visits, inspections, inquiries and interviews, mainly re cases of infectious diseases (particularly meningitis, diphtheria, encephalitis lethargica, scarlet fever and poliomyelitis) tropical diseases (such as malaria) and occupational diseases (such as Baker's Dermatitis) in England, appraisals of Sanitary Officers, and welfare of hop-pickers.

1919-1936

1 volume

This volume as given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in July 1999 by the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, which had received in 1993.

Allan Chilcott Parsons, MRCSEng, LRCP, DPH, (d.c.1946) Medical Officer, Ministry of Health.

Details of Parsons' career can be found in the Medical Directory 1946.

He was a specialist in tropical medicine, serving with the RAMC in western and southern Africa in the early 1900s.

He was the author of a chapter on Malaria in The Practice of Medicine in the the Tropics edited by W Byam and R G Archibald (London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1922) and Report on encephalitis lethargica: being an account of further enquiries into the epidemiology and clinical features of the disease; including an analysis of over 1,250 reports on cases notified in England and Wales during 1919 and 1920, together with a comprehensive bibliography of the subject with contributions by A Salusbury MacNalty and J R Perdrau (London: HMSO, 1922). Copies of both of these publications are held in the Wellcome Library.