Correspondence from 1947 Typescript correspondence with manuscript annotations from the year 1947. Some of the issues discussed are as follows: information requests to various medical schools, institutes and publications, tuberculosis, enteritis, typhus, Dr James Ryan new Minister of Health, relief in Europe, acute anterior poliomyelitis, diphtheria immunisation, Noel Browne, patient referrals and discussion, BCG vaccine, Sacred Heart Convent, Bessboro, Cork, accepted and rejected invitations, departmental administrative duties, chemicals used Dept of Health medical services, small pox, lecture given and attended, typhus, enteritis, Health Act, white paper on future of the Health Services, cholera outbreak in Egypt, vacancies. Numbers run RCSI/IP/Deeny/01/01/04/001-257 1947