Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria 1936-1966

Component identifier:

Series 42

Content Summary:

When the Anti-cancer Council of Victoria was constituted in 1937 Ivy Brookes became its Vice-president. The series contains correspondence from 1936 until 1966 with executive members; the Anti-cancer Act 1936; an incomplete set of minutes of meetings from 1936 until 1967; plans for the Central Cancer Institute (later Peter MacCallum Clinic) 1945; reports and financial statements from 1938 until 1966; pamphlets and press cuttings.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Herbert Brookes were presented to the National Library in April 1967 by his widow Ivy Deakin Brookes. In October 1967 she deposited her own extensive collection, and together they form the Brookes Papers.

Names:

Brookes, Ivy

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