| Description Of Item | Folder 1 - includes correspondence with Dr P W Brunt, Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen on establishing a working party within the Royal College of Physicians on alcohol abuse, January 1981; correspondence from David Player, Scottish Health Education Group on a possibly working party across the Royal Colleges including minutes of a meeting at the House of Commons in January 1981; memorandum on alcohol abuse signed by Player and Mike Daube, Department of Community Medicine, University of Edinburgh; 'An Econometric Analysis of Total Demand for Alcoholic Beverages in the UK 1956-75' by Tony McGuinness, May 1979; minutes of a meeting held at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, April 1981; Strong's notes on meetings held in October and November 1981 and July 1982; and correspondence from Sir John Crofton on advertising of alcohol.
Folder 2 - includes information on the Medical Council on Alcoholism and the Scottish Council on Alcohol; newspaper cuttings on the establishment of the Action on Alcohol Abuse; minutes of the steering group, April 1982; note by Strong of a meeting between Dr Wawman, the MO in the DHSS concerned with alcoholism and Margaret Pearson, an Assistant Secretary, June 1982; agenda of a meeting of Action on Alcohol Abuse held on 10th August 1982; letter from Strong to the Medical Council on Alcoholism on the intended role of the proposed Action on Alcohol Abuse; letters from Douglas Black, President of the Royal College of Physicians of London and J C Hasler, honorary secretary of the Royal College of General Practitioners to David Moody on the publication of the document on National Voluntary Organisations and Alcohol Abuse; letter from Professor John Strong to G M G Tibbs, Royal College of Physicians of London on Field Fisher & Martineau and the adaptation of Action on Smoking and Health's articles of association for Action on Alcohol Abuse; and copy of a letter from Professor John Strong to Professor Sir Gordon Robson, secretary, Conference of Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties in the UK on progress in establishing Action on Alcohol Abuse.
Folder 3 - includes minutes of a meeting June 1982; memorandum on Action Against Alcohol Abuse and the lack of representation offered by the existing Medical Council on Alcoholism and National Council on Alcoholism; papers for meeting August 1982; letter from Mike Daube to Strong on the Player's appointment to the Health Education Council and the implications for funding Action on Alcohol Abuse, November 1982; Strong's notes on a meeting of September 1982; and membership of the working party on Action Against Alcohol Abuse.
Originally in a folder with the title as given. |