Level of Description: fonds

Extent and Medium of the unit of description: 0.25 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Fletcher, Dr. Duncan J. B. (1922-1995), public health physician

Administrative/Biographical History
Duncan Fletcher was born in Mount Florida, Glasgow, on 11 April 1922. He was educated at Whiting Bay School and Hutcheson’s Grammar School. During five years’ National Service he trained as an engineer and on leaving the Navy returned to Glasgow and graduated from the University’s Faculty of Medicine in 1952. He held appointments in the Southern General Hospital, Western Infirmary, Royal Maternity Hospital and Hairmyres Hospital before returning to the University in 1954 to gain a Diploma in Public Health. He then joined the Public Health Department of Glasgow Corporation and was involved in the polimyelitis and tuberculosis campaigns. He was Deputy Superintendent at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Superintendent at Greenock. He ultimately became Unit Medical Officer in Western and Gartnavel hospitals and sat on the Management Committee of the General Council of Glasgow University.
His magical profession ran alongside his medical profession. He was President of the Scottish Conjurors Association for 30 years, and joined the Magic Circle in 1953 and the Inner Magic Circle in 1976. He died in 1995 at the age of 73.

Scope and content
Lecture notes 1954-1955, photograph of Western Infirmary residents, 1953, correspondence and papers relating to the Western Regional Health Board 1962-1973, miscellaneous booklets and publications 1914-1991.

Conditions governing access
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Conditions governing reproduction
Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Archivist. We will try to assist in identifying copyright owners but the responsibility for copyright clearance before publication ultimately rests with the reader.

Language/scripts of material
English

Finding aids
Descriptive list available at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Archivist's Note
Compiled by Charlotte Crooks, Archives Assistant, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Rules or Conventions
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2000).

Date(s) of Descriptions
November 2001