Ronald Winton research papers relating to Kanematsu's great gift, ca. 1989-1997

MLMSS 8733
MLOH 699

fonds

ca. 1989-1997

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Photographs, Clippings

153801

0.16 metres of textual material (1 box)
2 sound casettes

Ronald Winton (1913-2004) was editor and academic in the medical profession. He was editor of the Medical Journal of Australian 1957-1977 and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 1967-1977. From 1962 he lectured in the History of Medicine at University of Sydney. Publications include The Future of Professional Freedom (1977), Kanematsu's great gift : the story of the Kanematsu Memorial Institute at Sydney Hospital (1997) and numerous articles in Australian and overseas medical journals. In 1977, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian Medical Association.

The Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology, the first medical institute in New South Wales, was opened in Sydney Hospital in 1933. In 1958 the Institute was reorganised into two sections, Clinical Pathology and Medical Research and in 1982 the New South Wales Government announced the reduction of services at Sydney Hospital. The Clinical Pathology Department of the Institute was reduced and most of the staff members were dispersed to other hospitals. In 1983, the six integrated units which had made up the Research Department were split up, with the Renal and Cardio-Renal Units moving to The Royal North Shore Hospital, Haemorheology to The Rachel Forster Hospital, Immunology to The Royal Newcastle Hospital, and Clinical Haematology, Microcirculation and Histopathology to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

A small Clinical Pathology Department was retained on site and in 1985 the Kanematsu-Gosho Company agreed that the Kanematsu name also be retained by the Department of Clinical Pathology at Sydney Hospital. The Laboratories were renamed the "Kanematsu Laboratories" and are now a Department of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, physically situated in the Blackburn Building of The University of Sydney.


References:
Compiled from the collection
Library correspondence file
Sydney Local Health District. http://www.sswahs.nsw.gov.au/SSWPS/ToDelete/RPAH/KMI/history.html (accessed 23 July 2012)

Final draft typescript of ‘Kanematsu's great gift’ by Ronald Winton with, index, notes and amendments, ca. 1997

Transcript of interview by Ronald Winton with Senior Clinical Research fellow of the Kanematsu Memorial Institute Malcolm Whyte and notes of telephone
conversation, ca. 1993-1997. Manuscript and typescript

Published research material relating to the history of the Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology at Sydney Hospital collected by Ronald Winton, ca. 1997

Notes on the staff at Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology from 1933-1963

Photographs of Dr Eva Raik at Kanematsu 100th anniversary of celebration, ca. 1989-1991

Newscutting relating to Sydney hospital redevelopment bid, 1989

Reports of the Kanematsu Memorial Institute of Pathology at Sydney Hospital, ca. 1949-1965

Letter from Director of Sydney Hospital Dr Eva Raik enclosing copies of correspondence relating to the history of the Kanematsu Department of Clinical Pathology, 1997

Correspondence relating to research and requests for information on the history of the Kanematsu Memorial Institute, 1994-1997

ELECTRONIC FORMAT MATERIAL
Two floppy disks

SOUND RECORDINGS
Two sound casettes of interviews with F .C. Neale and Malcolm Whyte, no date

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