| Description | Minutes of ordinary or general meetings, and annual meetings of the Birmingham and Midland Counties Branch of the British Medical Association, starting with the inaugural meeting held on 13 December 1854. Minutes include the names of new members and those elected to the Council as well as explanations and revision of the rules and byelaws of the branch and its Council as discussed at various meetings. Information is also included about the formation of various sub-committees set up by the branch. Minutes also contain summaries of papers by members presented to the branch on medical practice illustrated by reports on patients, reports on the activities of doctors in the Birmingham area, discussions by the branch on medical policy, and balance sheets of accounts of the branch from February 1857.
Printed material is also inserted. This includes printed Rules and Byelaws of the branch and Council stuck on the reverse of the first page of the volume, cuttings, possibly from the British Medical Journal reporting on proceedings of the branch, cuttings, which may be the printed minutes of the branch meetings, giving summaries of the presidents address at the annual meeting of the branch and of papers given by members at other meetings,a printed booklet containing the Laws of the British Medical Association and the Rules of the Birmingham and Midland Counties Branch inserted towards the end of the volume and a printed list of members making donations to a fund for the Reception of the Members of the British Medical Association who were to hold their annual meeting in Birmingham in August 1872 together with the accounts for this fund.
The volume also includes some correspondence inserted towards the end of the volume, consisting of a letter to Oliver Pemberton, President of the branch from T. H. Bartleet resigning his post as honorary secretary of the branch, dated 8 February 1872, and a letter to the council from Thomas Pretious Heslop asking not to be recommended for the office of President of the branch due to other commitments, dated 13 June 1872. |