British Infection Society and predecessor bodies

This collection is uncatalogued. The following is an interim description which may be altered when detailed cataloguing takes place in future.

Meetings Attendance Book, 1959-1997 of the Association for the Study of Infectious Disease which became the British Society for the Study of Infection (BSSI)

Chain of Office of the President of the BSSI with names of Presidents + badge of Office of President.

Clinical Infection Society (CIS) - 3 Box Files, 1980s-1990s + Ring File (FIS):
File 1 -Details of the Scientific Meetings + general correspondence
File 2 - CIS General Correspondence
File 3 - CIS agenda of council meetings + minutes + expenses + details of the merger of the CIS with the British Society for the Study of Infection (BSSI) to form the British Infection Society (BIS)

3 Files of the British Infection Society (BIS) 2000s

Ring File of the Federation of Infection Societies (FIS) to which the CIS and later the BIS were affiliated members

1959-2000s

3 transfer boxes

Given to the library at Wellcome Collection in November 2012 by Professor Roger Finch, Emeritus Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Nottingham

Association for the Study of Infectious Disease became the British Society for the Study of Infection (BSSI) with both Scottish and English Sections. The BSSI merged with the Clinical Infection Society to become the British Infection Society (BIS)

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