Records of the North-Western Fever Hospital (NWFH), (later the Lawn Road or North-Western Branch of the Royal Free Hospital), 1887-1972, comprising: Nursing Staff Registers, containing service records for nurses and ward orderlies, 1887-1951; Nurse training records, for probationer and student nurses trained at NWFH, 1937-1946; Domestic Staff Registers, containing service records for domestic staff, including housekeeping, laundry and catering staff, 1887-1923.
Royal Free Hospital, Lawn Road (or North Western) Branch: In-patient Registers, 1965-1972; Patients Property Register, 1944-1962; Joint Consultative Staff Committee minutes, 1951-1954.

Records of Sophia Jex-Blake including papers relating to her time as a Trustee at the London School of Medicine for Women (1874-1897). They include some of her letters to the Council of the School, copies of pamphlets she wrote, a portrait, and material relating to various memorials to her.

Records of Fulham Hospital (1886 - 1971) including: Visitors Books; Specifications for Building Works; Engineers Department files; Staff Records; Baptism Register; Plans and Photographs. Also includes the following patient records: Registers of Cases (Births); Operations Books; Registers of Deaths and Patients' Notes.

Records of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, including minutes and papers of the Board; National Hospital Reserve Sub-Committee; Establishment Committee; Medical Staffing Sub-Committee; Nursing Sub-Committee; Finance Committee; Finance Committee Investments Sub-Committee; Drugs Expenditure Sub-Committee; Medical Advisory Committee; Planning Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Building, Land and Works Sub-Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Clinical Research Sub-Committee; Mental Health Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Mental Health Sub-committee and Steering Committee.

North West Metropolitan Regional Committees including minutes and papers of the North West Metropolitan Area Nurse Training Committee; North West Metropolitan Area Nurse Training Committee Finance Sub-Committee; Joint Consultative Committee for Inner London Hospitals in the North West Metropolitan Hospital Region minutes and papers; Joint Working Group of the Metropolitan Joint Consultative Committees; North West Metropolitan Hospital Regional Staff Advisory Committee, and the Regional Staff Committee.

North West Thames Regional Health Authority minutes and Departmental Records, including papers of the Regional Centres for Specialised Treatment; Major Accidents Procedure; Joint Consultative Committee for Inner London Hospitals; Planning: Central London Area and Planning: Regional Joint Liaison Committee for transfer to new authorities.

National Hospital Service Reserve, including papers of Mrs Grieb, Regional Coordinating Officer comprising scrapbook and photographs.

Papers relating to a bazaar held to raise funds for the Convalescent Home for Children, Highgate.

Records of the Le Neve family, including deeds for properties in Southwark; documents relating to the bankruptcy of Edwin Morgan of 6 Three Crown Square, hop merchant; and agreement for custody of a mentally sick person.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, Upper Street, Islington, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; registers of preachers and church services; minutes of Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; Churchwardens' financial accounts and correspondence; statistics; papers relating to the construction and maintenance of the church buildings including plans and elevations, faculties and correspondence; legal documents relating to church property, such as deeds; parish magazines; papers relating to parochial charities and schools; and records of the Mutual Assurance Society and other parish societies.

Church rate books and papers relating to the collection of rates; minutes of various committees including the Trustees of the Parish and committees relating to highways and the workhouse; papers relating to civil functions of the parish, including the appointment of watchmen and constables, regulation of weights and measures, surveyor's papers, sanitation and medical care, workhouse and poor relief, apprentices, settlement examinations and removal orders.

Records of the Corn Exchange Benevolent Society comprising rules, minutes, annual reports, a record of pensioners, and photographs and correspondence relating to the centenary.

Papers relating to Lying-In hospitals, comprising an almanack with a print of the City of London Lying In Hospital, 1773 and a cutting from the Nursing Times relating to the closure of the General Lying In Hospital, 1971.

Records of Leslie R Wolfson's dental practice, 1934-1987, consisting largely of accounts such as balance sheets, cash books, bills, receipts and tax papers relating to Mr Wolfson's dental practices in Enfield; sample of patients' record cards (patients unidentifiable); booklets, pamphlets, and so on regarding aspects of dentistry, National Health Service leaflets and other leaflets on dental charges; and correspondence concerning property transactions in Enfield including agreement for sale of general practice at Grange Park, Enfield.

The records consist of the three surviving minute books of the Hampstead Provident Dispensary together with a minute book of the United Provident Institution which is only partly used, entries becoming increasingly brief in the late 1860s before ceasing altogether.

Letter of recommendation from the Finsbury Dispensary, including details of Medical Officers, instructions for patients and foot treatment, 1937.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to administration, 1901-1965, including minutes of Staff Conferences; minutes of meetings of Heads of Sections; reports made to the Middlesex Local Medical Committee; minutes of meetings of Area Chief Clerks; examples of forms in use; general files relating to infant welfare, day nurseries, midwifery, home nursing, vaccination and immunisation, home helps, children in care, clinics, dental care and record keeping; papers relating to the National Health Service; papers relating to the Ambulance Service; papers relating to Regional Hospital Boards; papers relating to public health matters; statistics and returns; circulars from the County Medical Officer to the area medical officers; and papers relating to the reorganisation of London government in 1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to financial accounts, 1950-1965, including the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation Fund; car allowance policy; tuberculosis settlements; recuperative holidays and loan of nursing equipment.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to mental health services, 1915-1965, including papers regarding staff training; papers relating to psychiatric hospitals; papers relating to residential homes for the mentally ill; policy on after care for mental patients and alcoholics; investigation into autism; survey of children with Down's Syndrome; papers relating to guardianship cases; papers regarding the care of mentally ill or disturbed children; papers relating to training centres, education, occupational therapy and workshops for the mentally ill or disabled; photographs of Enfield Adult Training Centre and papers relating to individual institutions. Also sample case files for mentally defective persons and mentally ill persons: please note that access to case files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to staff, 1947-1965, including general files relating to: medical staff, dental staff, uniforms and protective clothing, midwives, home nurses, training, health visitors, day nursery staff, medical auxiliaries, residential special schools, airports, chest clinics and health education.

Minutes and presented papers of meetings of the Middlesex County Council, 1889-1965. Also minutes and presented papers of Middlesex County Council Committees, as follows:

Aerodromes and Development Committee

Agriculture Committee

Air Raid Precautions Committee

Asylums Committee

Buildings Committee

Children's Committee

Civil Defence Committee

Coordinating Committee

Costs and Policy Review Committee

Diseases of Animals Committee

Drainage Committee

Education Committee

Emergency Committee

Establishment Committee

Estates Committee

Finance Committee

Fire Brigade Committee

General Purposes Committee

Highways Committee

Housing Committee

Industrial Schools Committee

Land Committee

Licensing Committee

Light Railways Committee

Local Government Committee

Luncheon Club Committee

Maternity Committee

Office Accommodation Committee

Parliamentary Committee

Planning Committee

Public Health Committee

Rates Committee

Rivers Committee

Selection Committee

Small Dwellings Committee

Small Holdings Committee

Staff Committee

Standing Orders Committee

Supplies Committee

Taxation Committee

Valuation Committee

War Committee

Welfare Committee

Records of the North Surrey School District, 1849-1930, including minutes of the Board of Managers; minutes and reports of various Committees; medical reports; annual reports and statements of accounts; pamphlet 'A Short History of the North Surrey District School'; orders of and correspondence with the Poor Law Board and Local Government Board; admission and discharge registers for Anerley School; registers of apprentices and servants; staff lists and superannuation registers.

Records of the Paddington Poor Law Parish, 1845-1936, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; standing orders; reports and accounts; orders from and correspondence with Government departments; orders of removal to and from the Union; registers of lunatics and imbeciles; registers for Harrow Road Workhouse; apprenticeship indentures; register of children sent to the Training Ship Exmouth; registers of children sent to the West London District School; registers of children at the Trenmar Gardens Receiving Home; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of the South Metropolitan School District, 1849-1905, including minutes and reports of the Board of Management; annual reports and statements of accounts; standing orders of the Board and its Committees; correspondence with and orders from the Poor Law Board; papers relating to building works and maintenance; admission and discharge and creed registers for Brighton Road School, Banstead Road School, Witham School and Herne Bay School; registers of apprentices and servants; and staff records.

Records of the Stepney Poor Law Union (called the Limehouse Poor Law Union from 1921-1925), 1836-1936, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; correspondence; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers for the Limehouse Children's Establishment, the Mile End Old Town Workhouse, the Ratcliffe Workhouse and Bromley House; registers of admission for the Stifford Children's Homes; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of Parish of Stepney Poor Law Union, 1910-1936, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; correspondence; admission orders for lunatics; registers for Bromley House and the South Grove Institution; registers for Gray Scattered Homes and Stifford Homes; financial accounts; staff records; plans of Gray's Children's Homes and contract works ledger.

Records of the Mile End Old Town Poor Law Union, 1848-1930, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; correspondence; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers for the Mile End Workhouse and Infirmary; apprenticeship indentures; registers for the Bancroft Road School and the Mile End Scattered Homes; financial accounts; staff records and monthly returns of infant deaths.

Records of Saint George in the East Poor Law Union, 1836-1927, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; correspondence; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers of lunatics in asylums; registers for the Saint George in the East Workhouse and Infirmary and the Raine Street Workhouse and Infirmary; registers for the Plashet School and Drouet's Home, Tooting; financial accounts; staff records and tradesmen's accounts.

Records of Whitechapel Poor Law Union, 1837-1943, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; correspondence; orders of removal to and from other Unions; admission orders for lunatics; registers of lunatics in asylums; registers from the Whitechapel Infirmary and the South Grove Workhouse; registers of children; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of Saint Marylebone Poor Law Parish, 1834-1943, including agendas, minutes and reports of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; order books of the Female Removal and Enquiry Officer; rules and regulations; orders of and correspondence with Government departments; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers of out-relief; orders for the reception of lunatics; medical officer's examinations of lunatics; registers of mechanical restraint; registers from the Northumberland Street Workhouse, the Ladbroke Grove Infirmary and the Grays Inn Road Workhouse; registers of apprentices, servants, and children sent to training ships; registers for Southall School; financial accounts; staff records; plan of Saint Marylebone Workhouse before 1876 rebuilding; and returns of births.

Records of Cromwell House, Highgate (Great Ormond Street Convalescent Branch), CH/3 Financial Records, comprising CH/3/1, Highgate Ledger, containing maintenance costs for Great Ormond Street Convalescent Branch (provisions, salaries, rents etcetera), January 1896 to December 1900; CH/3/2 Cromwell House Wage Book (for Nurses and Servants), September 1869 to December 1910.

Visitors' Books and Report Books, comprising CH/7/1, Cromwell House Visitors Book, 1869-1918, (with leaflet on Regulations for Admission.); CH/7/2 Matron's Report Book, November 1911- May 1922.

Correspondence, comprising CH/8/1 Letters and Press Cuttings Book re Cromwell House, 1867-1873 (includes plan of Dead House, staff memoranda, correspondence on patients and management, leaflets and advertisements about the house produced by the hospital, press cuttings and illustrations. draft regulations and maintenance proposals); CH/8/2 Report of the Sub-Committee on the desirability of retaining Cromwell House.

Patient Registers, comprising CH/9/1, Patient Admissions Register, 1869-1883; CH/9/2, Duplicate Admissions Register, 1869-1880 (with letter from Catherine J. Wood on staffing problems at Cromwell House, dated 9th May 1878); CH/9/3, Patient Admissions Register, 1883 -1891; CH/9/4 Patient Admissions Register, 1893-1898; CH/9/5 Patient Admissions Register, 1904-1910; CH/9/6 Admissions Register to Chronic and Surgical Wards, 1870-1904; CH/9/7 Duplicate Admissions Register to Chronic and Surgical Wards, 1870-1880; CH/9/8 Register of Out-Patients, 1884-1888.

Papers of Sir John Thomas Duckworth, consisting of a log, 1779 to 1780; letterbooks, 1800 to 1807 and 1812; order books, 1800 to 1806; an admiral's journal, 1807 to 1808; two rough journals, 1805 and 1810 to 1812, and correspondence. The loose papers cover the years 1790 to 1813. They consist of official and some private correspondence; reports and orders, including series from Lords Howe (q.v.), 1790, and Collingwood (q.v.), 1805 to 1806; an account of the battle of the First of June 1794; correspondence relating to Duckworth's Mediterranean command, 1799 to 1800, in particular to naval hospitals; correspondence with Sir Robert Calder (1745-1818), 1800 to 1805, mostly on their dispute over prize money, and other papers relating to the West Indies; congratulatory addresses on San Domingo; correspondence relating to the Dardanelles affair and letters and papers received as Governor of Newfoundland.

Records of the Aged Pilgrim's Friend Society, comprising papers relating to a proposed new asylum at Hornsey Rise; and annual reports.

Records of the Aged Poor Society. The records cover an incomplete collection of minute books and annual reports for the Society and Saint Joseph's Alms House, Hammersmith. According to the Society's 'Historic Records' report (1957), no records prior to 1820 have survived.

Despite the gaps in the records, the minutes and reports provide detailed information on the establishment of the almshouses, the use of funds from will bequests, the admission and discharge of aged poor beneficiaries, and the membership and patronage of the Society.

Records of The Home for Aged Jews (later called Nightingale House and later Nightingale). This collection contains a wide range of records of the Home including minutes, a good set of annual reports, accounts, property and building records, printed material, photographs, film and videos. The archive gives detailed coverage of changes in care work and the life of residents and staff working at Nightingale. Of particular interest are the residents' admission book (1914-1933) and official 'diary' of events (1916) which are a good resource for tracing residents admitted to the Home, and the annual reports (1896-1997) which cover all aspects of the work of the Home including the early introduction of Occupational Therapy and other facilties for residents.

The majority of the archive relates to the later half of the 20th century, although there is a small survival of records from the early period of the Home and its former Charities (from 1879) before its move to Wandsworth in 1907. The minutes include a minute book of the Wandsworth Hospital Group's Jewish Home of Rest, Birchlands Avenue, Wandsworth. The property deeds include deeds of the Farmiloe family, lead and glass merchants of Rochester Row, Westminster.

Records of the School Mistresses and Governesses Benevolent Institution. This collection contains records relating to the administration of the Institution which provide a comprehensive resource for researching the history of the Institution: its functions, buildings and achievements. For example, the records include a complete set of minutes for the Board of Management for 1843-1979, and a richly evocative set of secretary's letter books for 1846-1849.

The collection also contains records of the individuals that benefited from the accommodation, annuities and temporary assistance offered by the Institution. These records are of use to family historians or for those researching the social history of governesses, women teachers at independent schools, charities, and the care of aged women. They include, for instance, a set of candidate lists which record the personal circumstances of retired or needy governesses applying for annuities for 1924-1938.

Although based in London and Kent, the Institution assisted British governesses throughout the UK and Europe. There are a few instances where governesses stationed further afield were also assisted.

Records of Islington Community Health Council (1974-2003) including Meeting Papers (2001-2003) and Annual Reports (1974-2003).

Records of Lambeth Community Health Council (CHC) and predecessors (1974 - 2000). Includes Minutes (1974 - 2000).

Records of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions relating to local administration, 1590-1930. The number of series in MA reveals the wide scope of county administration dealt with at the sessions. A lot of the records date from the nineteenth century when there was an increase in central attempts at the regulation of many aspects of everyday life. MA/W deals with silk weavers' wage rates; MA/MW covers the work of Inspectors of Weights and Measures; MA/RS are reports from county committees and officers; MA/MS deal with military carriage rates; MA/S is concerned with the building and maintenance of the county's sessions houses; MA/MD covers the work of Inspectors of Animal Diseases; MA/C covers the work of the sessions' committees; MA/G is concerned with the building and maintenance of the county's prisons; MA/GS, likewise for Feltham Industrial School; MA/DCP are plans of county properties; MA/D and MA/DC contain deeds and contracts for county properties; MA/B are Bridge Committee papers; MA/A is concerned with the building and maintenance of the county's lunatic asylums; and MA/MN deals with military and naval recruitment in the county.

Records of the Bristol ethnic minorities health investigation including questionnaires, interview transcripts, cassette tapes, and published results of survey of concepts of illness, use of health services, etc, among Punjabi-speaking women in Bristol, 1986-1987.

Research papers of Diana Gittins, 1905-1998, for her book Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, (London: Routledge, 1998), including tapes and transcripts of interviews with staff, ex-patients and patients, and background information on the hospital.

Transcripts of 162 interviews with medical and nursing staff for a study on inter-professional relations between doctors and nurses (covering attitudes to patients, characteristics of good/bad staff, responsibility for medical decisions, training, etc.), 1989-1990.

Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Dr Stefan Cembrowicz with elderly general practitioners in the Bristol area, Dr Freddie Morgan, formerly Morgenbesser, Oct 2000, and Dr Ivor Ernest Doney, 2004.

Papers of Dr Brian Gough, 1920s-1990s, comprising personal, professional and patient correspondence, including material about local institutions with which he was involved, and on his interests in medical history.

Originals and photocopies of 58 papers and associated material, forming 'The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968' on mental health development, 1960-1968. Some papers include editorial notes.

Four volumes of administrative documentation relating to the Bath Casualty Hospital: two volumes relating to the Hospital's rules and orders, an account book and a register of wills in the Hospital's favour, 1788-1840.

Papers of Hugh Charles Herbert Candy, 1906-1931, including notes relating to chemical analyses, a report on the post-mortem examination on Doris Barwood, and notes and correspondence on two cases of poisoning, but largely concerning a suicide in Barking, Essex containing a police statement from the attending G.P., letters from the borough coroner, and records of post-mortem examinations conducted at Severalls Mental Hospital, Colchester and the London Hospital Medical College, Mile End.

MSS.1456-1499 comprise chiefly drafts of essays and papers by Cantlie, spanning his entire career but with the bulk (MSS.1461-1486) dating from his years in Hong Kong. The subject is generally tropical medicine; diseases discussed include leprosy, dropsy, kala-azar, beri-beri, cholera and malaria, with particular emphasis upon leprosy. Worth individual notice are MSS.1456, in which Cantlie describes a case of blood poisoning that he acquired in the dissecting room at Charing Cross Hospital; MS.1459, commemorating the military surgeon Paul Bennett Conolly (died at Khartoum on the Gordon Relief Expedition of 1885); 1461, 1466 and 1463, two diaries and a cashbook respectively to do with his Hong Kong medical practice; 1469, a fragment of a register of patients in the Hong Kong Hospital; 1480-1481, casebooks compiled in Hong Kong; 1489, a dummy copy of the first edition of the Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, founded by Cantlie; and 1499, a collection of questionnaire responses relating to the life history of Eurasian "half-castes" in which Cantlie is one of many respondents drawn from the western fringes of the Pacific (China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand). MSS.6931-6941 contain correspondence, personal and travel papers, medical notes, printed material (including much material relating to papers published in the Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene), illustrative material and certificates, the last also including items relating to other members of Cantlie's family.

Notes, 1957-1966, made by Sir Zachary Cope in preparation for a History of Dispensaries in Great Britain, plus a piece on his own writings. Produced in London.

Two notebooks of Claude François Déveille, 1807-1836, one recording pharmacy in use in military hospitals (plus some erotic poems) and the other a commonplace book.

The collection comprises case notes of patients in Amoy and Hong Kong, correspondence, including a typed copy of one to Sir David Bruce (1855-1931) and some miscellaneous papers; the correspondence includes some letters neither to nor from Manson but kept by him, including one from David Livingstone (1813-1873) to his family. Particularly noteworthy is MS.6133, typescript copies of letters from Ronald Ross to Manson written during the former's period of malaria research in India (1897-1899).

Holograph manuscripts of publications by Joseph von Schneller, notes, and some material by other persons collected by von Schneller, 1837-1885.

Personal papers of the Silvester family, 1844-1905 including (auto)biographical details of the three, copy correspondence, and diary entries. Specifically: T H Silvester's notebook includes personal and professional details, there is also a draft medical paper on venous bruit; Paul de Hookham's papers are an autobiography; whilst Henry Robert Silvester's papers mainly relate to his work on the resuscitation of the apparently drowned or asphyxiated.

Records of Manor House Asylum, 1870-1925, comprising six casebooks relating to male and female patients and one of voluntary boarders, both male and female. There is also a file of correspondence to members of the Tuke family and others. The collection includes undated material.

Records of the London County Council Public Health Department relating to personal health services, 1902-1963, including papers on Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics and Health Centres, including papers of individual clinics and brochure "Health Services and How to Obtain Them" (1958); papers relating to Domiciliary Midwifery Services including notices, rules, lists of certified Midwives, training, historical sketch of the service and the Midwives Bill, 1902; papers relating to day nurseries and home helps, including sample of applications for home helps and report on LCC Home Help Service by the National Institute of Houseworkers; papers regarding chest clinics for the treatment of tuberculosis, including sample of case papers for the boarding out of child tuberculosis patients, papers and case notes of tuberculosis patients, reports relating to tuberculosis and papers of individual chest clinics; papers relating to blind persons, including papers of the Departmental Committee on Welfare of the Blind, reports and schemes undertaken under the Blind Persons Act, 1920, papers on the prevention of blindness and investigation into myopia, the number and general classification of blind persons in London and ophthalmological research.

Records of the London County Council Public Health Department relating to the School Health Service, 1905-1964, including papers relating to partially-sighted children, medical examination of scholarship candidates, feeding of schoolchildren, sex education in residential schools, medical inspection of schoolchildren, medical and dental treatment of schoolchildren, statistics for annual reports, open air classes, treatment of stammerers and the Joint Working Party on Transfer to the London Boroughs.

Papers of individual hospitals, clinics and treatment centres which provided medical treatment for school children (please consult catalogue for full list). Papers relating to the cleansing of verminous schoolchildren including warm baths in schools, cutting of hair, use of paraffin for cleansing heads, procedures for cleansing, provision of mackintosh capes for cleansing verminous children, cleansing of children in open air schools, procedure for cleansing children when the parents are illiterate, synchronising of cleansing of homes and of children, vermicide experiments and papers of individual cleansing stations and shampoo stations.

Samples of case-papers of children dealt with under the Rheumatism Scheme; report 'The Ascertainment, Care, Education and Training of Educable Mentally Handicapped Children'; report on Social Workers and the Health Visiting Service; report on Psychological Services for Children in London; leaflets 'Health Hints to Parents' (1910) and 'The Health of Schoolchildren' (1912); leaflet of breathing exercises (1922) and samples of School Health Service forms.

Papers of the Manor Gardens Centre, 1918-2002, including minutes of the Executive Committee and minutes of the Finance, Staff, House, Mothers, Wards and Trustee Committees; administrative files including annual general meeting working papers, educational visits, requisitioning, health visitors, wards, wages, new building, fund raising, war savings, insurance, clinics, trustees, reports, letters to newspapers, certificates and staff; papers relating to the Holiday Scheme; annual reports; press cuttings; publications including booklets about the work of the Centre and a history of the North Islington Infant Welfare Centre and School for Mothers 1913-1973; financial statements; photographs and printing blocks of mothers and children, staff, special events and Centre buildings; architectural plans.

Papers of Dr John Dalziel Wyndham Pearce, 1933-1994, including published and draft papers re juvenile delinquency, and relating to RAMC psychiatry service, Second World War. Includes account of case of religious fervour in an ambulance unit, 1941.