Scrap-book containing newspaper and journal cuttings and some programmes, invitations and cartoon illustrations

Date:
1905-1926
Reference:
MS.7925
Part of:
Cantlie, Sir James, F.R.C.S. (1851-1926)
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Contains: 111 images

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Scrap-book containing newspaper and journal cuttings and some programmes, invitations and cartoon illustrations. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Mainly contains reviews of Cantlie's book Physical Efficiency. A Review of the deleterious effects of Town Life upon the population of Britain, with suggestions for their arrest (London: Putnam, 1906), a manual for physical health, concentrating on Cantlie's views on boys' and girls' clothing, health benefits of kilted skirts for young boys, the decreasing birth rate, high infant mortality and decline of the Anglo-Saxon race, shrinking size of families, the evils of polluted city air, Eton jackets, bottle-feeding of infants, comforters and perambulators, and the health benefits of walking for the middle-aged, the Norfolk jacket, singing and dancing.

Subjects also covered in the scrap-book are: Cantlie's views on the degeneration of Londoners, exercise for the elderly, the perils of cigarette smoking; medical practice in the tropics; the ambulance movement and College of Ambulance established by Cantlie in 1914; obituaries of Cantlie and Sir George Evatt, co-founder of the Volunteer R.A.M.C., 1883.

Includes two cartoons of Cantlie from the Charing Cross Hospital Gazette, c.1899.

Index blank.

Publication/Creation

1905-1926

Physical description

103ff. 1 volume, (Index foliated in pencil pp.1-6; printed pp.1-152, blank from pp.50-152, with attached inserts foliated in pencil pp.1-5; front and end page. 14 loose pages of cuttings placed in a separate file].

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

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