Papers of Doctor Cicely Williams Medical Officer, British Colonial Service 1936-1948. Served in Singapore and Malaya and was interned at Changi during the war. Papers cover the work before and after the war and her reminiscences Box 1
1936-1948
Contains the following sub-files: 1) PP/CDW/B2/1 - Singapore - Medical Officer Correspondence. 1938 - Letters from the General Hospital, 3, 15 January. Attached is a booklet:- Pioneer Maternity and Child Welfare Work in rural Singapore from 1927 to 1938. Diary of work as Medical Officer in Trengganu. 1941 - Correspondence relating to Trengganu. Proposed new scheme for Government Midwives together with advice for midwives. Copy of a Journal of the Malaya Branch of the B.M.A. December 1938 - includes an article by Cicely Williams on diseases in childhood in Singapore. Enclosed is a draft article - The Development of Paediatrics in Singapore 1961 2) PP/CDW/B2/2 - Milk and Murder. Text of a lecture given to the Rotary Club of Singapore, 1939. Press comment on the article 3) PP/CDW/B2/5 - Preventive Paediatrics April 1948. Written whilst she was a prisoner in Changi 4) PP/CDW/B2/6 - Singapore. Correspondence, reports etc 1946-1947. Includes brochures from the Health Education Committee, Federation of Malaya and correspondence on child welfare, hygiene, social welfare in the Federation as well as a copy of the final report of the Joint Wages Commission. 1 March 1948. Some of the reports cover Singapore including the report on maternity and child welfare in rural Singapore. 1 April - 31 December 1946 5) 9.5 PP/CDW/B2/8 - Annual report of the Medical Department of the Colony of Singapore 1949. Poster with pictures in Chinese characters. Papers concerned with child welfare in Singapore, 1947 6) PP/CDW/B2/9 - Changi Goal. Notebooks etc. Reports on nutrition of women and children in internment, February 1942 to September 1945. Diet Survey. 1941 Rough notes in pencil, charts, patient notes, etc 7) PP/CDW/B2/10 - Correspondence from family and friends June 1942 to August 1944 Christmas cards and correspondence from other prisoners, letters, paintings, cards. Notes, newspaper cuttings, including a copy of the Straits Times, 10 September 1950 8) PP/CDW/B2/14 - Retreat from Trengganu - Account of her journey from Trengganu to Singapore on foot and by boat. She completed her journey by train and arrived in Singapore on 20 December 1941. Vividly describes her work with the children in the Tan Tock Seng Hospital during the bombing. Particularly detailed on the chaotic conditions between the surrender to the Japanese and the internment in Changi. Account of her internment and work with the women and children. Statement of Dr Cicely Williams, made for the police investigating the treatment of the internees by the Japanese Gestapo. Account of her interrogation by the Kempetei. Personal notes
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