Contact: Mr. Alan Jubb
Tel: ++44.1277.653.891

Contact: Mr. Allen Payne
Tel: ++44.1243.266.130

Contact: Tel: ++44.1535.643.087

Secretary: Mrs. C. Bolton
9 Prospect Place
Easter Compton, Bristol BS35 5SB
UK
Tel: ++44.1454.632.159

Contact: Mr. Martin Smith
Catalina, Howell Hill Grove
East Ewell, Surrey KT17 3EB
UK

Contact: Mr. Phillip Cottrill
Tel: ++44.1298.815.610

Contact: Secretary
Tel: ++44. 1223.233.623

Contact: Mrs. Judith Edwards
Cyfronydd, Welshpool
Powys, Wales SY21 9ER
UK

Contact: Mr. John Rawlins
Tel: ++44.1245.420.196

Corresponding Secretary: Mr. James T Lee
P.O. Box 770913
Cleveland, Ohio 44107
USA

Secretary: Richard Everett
29 Diomed Drive, Great Barton, Bury St.
Edmunds, Suffolk 1P31 2TN
UK

Affiliated to the A.P.S.

Chairman & Editor "Pratique" DENIS VANDERVELDE 25 Sinclair Grove LONDON NW11 9JH Tel: +44.181.455.91.90

Honorary Treasurer & Membership Secretary HANS A. SMITH 99 North End Road LONDON NW11 7TA Tel: +44.181.455.08.17

STUDY CIRCLE SCOPE AND AIMS

The D.M.S.C. was founded in 1973, with blessing of the late Dr. K. F. Meyer, the World Health Organisation authority on Plague, and editor of the definitive work, Disinfected Mail. It was his wish that research into the topic should cont9inue, leading ultimately to the publication of authoritative books and monographs on practice of disinfection and quarantine in all parts of the world : many countries had not even been considered in his seminal work.

Since then, specialists, including medical and social historians as well as collectors, have been researching and publishing accounts of the treatment of mail, from 14th century up to the 20th, in Pratique. Almost every country in the world has been the topic of one or more articles: and for many of these, (including Egypt, Gibraltar, Hawaii, 20th century USA, Serbia and Russia), the result has been the equivalent of a specialist monograph.

The scope of the journal has been extended to cover related topics, including maritime and other Certificates of Health; ship’s documents of pratique; public health proclamations restricting or restoring the freedom to trade with ports or regions suspected of harbouring infectious diseases; maps, prints, postcards or descriptions of lazarettos ; and vaccination ephemera, including anti-compulsory vaccination envelopes and postcards. Pratique, the journal of the Study Circle, is now published three times a year, and has won many international awards for original research. Back numbers are available for purchase. It is usually accompanied by a postal auction of several dozen lots of member’s relevant material for sale, at realistic estimate.

Enquiries and applications for membership, (currently £12 per annum in the UK; £15 elsewhere in Europe; and £20 or U$ 32 beyond), should be made initially to the Chairman.

Contact: Mr. Tom Handley
Byways, Allerton
Axbridge BS26 2NG
UK

Secretary: Bill Tonkin
23 Bramley Way
West Wickham, Kent BR4 9NT
UK
Tel: ++44.181.777.88.61

Contact: Mr. Norman Hudson
28 Enfield Road
Ellesmere Port, South Wirral L65 8BY
UK

Contact: Mrs. Gwenda Shaw
Tel: ++44.181.922.04.17

Contact: Mr. Keith Tranmer
100 Ramsgill Drive, Newbury Park
Ilford, Essex IG2 7TP

Contact: Mr. Tony Wilkinson
3 Buttermere Close
Brierley Hill, West Midlands DY5 3SD
UK

Contact: Mr. John Corscaden
Tel: ++44.1923.673.347

Contact: Mrs. Gwenda Shaw
Tel: ++44.181.922.04.17

Contact: Mr. P. Garth
5 Orchard Lane, Brampton
Huntingdon PE18 8T
UK

Contact: Indian Study Circle
P.O. Box 145, High Wycombe
Bucks HP14 4PX
UK

Contact: John Payne
Kelso, Devonshire Avenue
Amersham, bucks HP6 5JE
UK

Contact: Mr. Richard Harlow
7 Duncombe House, 8Manor Road
Teddington, Middlesex TW11 8BE
UK

Contact: Tel: ++44.1535.643.087

Contact: Mr. J. Ronis
7 Lowes Avenue
Brampton, Ontario L6X 1R8
CANADA

Contact: Mr. G. Barling
9 Victoria Terrace, Borstal
Rochester, Kent ME1 3JQ
UK

Contact: Mr. R. J. MacMillan
Cluny, 11 Cullaloe Court
Dalgety Bay, Fife KY11 5NW
Scotland