Records of the Hampton Isolation Hospital, 1901-1940, comprising deeds, conveyances and licences relating to the hospital site and other land adjacent to it, used for allotments and nursery gardens.

Staff regulations for attendants on the patients at Metropolitan Asylums Board imbecile asylums, 1905.

Photographs of London scenes relating to the government of London and the provision of education, healthcare and welfare services in the 1930s and 1940s. On the backs of the photographs there are typescript captions.

Scenes include the election of the Lord Mayor in the Guildhall; Corporation of London meetings held at Mansion House after Guildhall was burnt out by incendiary bombs; the Lord Mayor's Show; a policeman standing next to Big Ben; Tower Bridge and Pool of London; River Police boarding a coasting steamer moored in the Thames; Covent Garden Market with sacks and baskets stacked outside; County Hall taken from across the Thames; London County Council in session at County Hall; photograph of a sketch map showing location of London County Council housing estates; flats recently completed by London County Council; mains sewer with repair work in progress; map showing open spaces maintained by London County Council; view from Richmond Hill showing stretch of country beside River Thames maintained as an open space by London, Middlesex and Surrey County Councils; babies being weighed at a Child Welfare Centre; exterior view of Honor Oak girls' secondary school maintained by London County Council; cookery class at Carlyle School, Chelsea, a London County Council Girls' secondary school; lunch time at an elementary school; school medical inspection; evacuation of London mothers with children under five, with boy scout assisting; boys in dormitory of a school camp; balconies at the ends of ward blocks, North Eastern Hospital for infectious diseases, later St Ann's Hospital, Tottenham; ward with female patients suffering from tuberculosis at Pinewood Sanatorium, Surrey; verandah of Claybury Hospital, Essex, a London County Council mental hospital; exterior of New Malden Branch Library, Surrey; interior of children's library, New Malden Branch Library, Surrey; women using an ironing machine in a communal laundry.

Also photographs of wartime services including women entering a memorial hall used as a wartime restaurant by the London County Council Londoners' Meals Service; British Restaurant kitchen; Rest Centre for people suddenly made homeless; Air Raid Heavy Rescue Workers in action; patient on stretcher being lifted into London County Council ambulance; London Fire Brigade Headquarters; Fire Service dealing with a fire in Central London caused by incendiary bombs; Fire Service on River Thames fire float provided by the London County Council for dealing with fires in the docks.

Records of the City of London Mental Hospital (previously the City of London Asylum and commonly referred to as Stone House Hospital) including:
Visiting Committee Minutes (1857-1949);
Medical Superintendents' Records (1897-1959);
Annual Reports (1866-1947);
Statistics and Returns (1871-1946);
Rules and Regulations (1907-1973);
Correspondence related to Patient Admissions (1938-1947);
Visiting Committee Visitors Books (1930-1960);
Ward Meetings (1972-1978);
Female Case Books (1866-1959);
Male Case Books (1866-1929);
Medical Registers (1907-1950);
Discharge, Transfer and Death Records and Registers (1866-1958);
Indexes to Patients (1866-1963);
Registers of Private Patients (1892-1952);
Mechanical Restraint and Seclusion (1890-1950);
Burials and Post-Mortems (1921-1968);
Patient Files (1919-1979);
Rate Aided Patients: Civil Registers (1907-1952);
Admissions (1885-1997);
Records of Monthly Visits (1930-1962);
Records of Continuation Certificates (1936-1965);
Board of Control: Patient Book (1947-1960);
Ward Reports (1970-1986);
Staff Service Registers (1887-1947);
Wages, Salaries and Pensions (1866-1949);
Artizans' Workbooks (1889-1939);
Matrons' and Head Nurses' Report Books (1937-1949);
Compensation Claims (1929-1942);
Staff Files (1925-1949);
Staff War Service (1920);
Patients' Accounts Books (1932-1979);
Patient Maintenance Files (1910-1947);
Guidance and Procedures (1932-1949);
Chaplain Diaries (1866-1977);
Plans, Designs and Details (1860-1958);
Photographs (c 1860-c 2000);
Printing Blocks (c 1900-c 1929);
Publicity Material (c 1940-c 1959);
Chaplaincy Papers (1884-1971); and
Entertainment (1914-1931).

Records of Bridewell Hospital, 1660-1960, including administrative papers, reports, orders and recommendations.

Records relating to the management of the Royal Hospitals, 1547-2002, including Acts of Parliament regarding the hospitals; copies of patents, charters and decrees; minute books of the Royal Hospitals Committee; papers regarding the Presidents of the Royal Hospitals; petitions; manuscript and printed lists of Governors of the Royal Hospitals, 1683-2002 (with some gaps) and other administrative papers relating to the Governors.

Records of the Court of Aldermen, 1495-2004, including repertories (proceedings), 1495-1998; subject index to repertories, 1495-1857; fair minutes, 1691-1716; rough minutes, 1691-1932; Town Clerk's rough books, 1957-1996; draft minutes, 1801-1936 and 1941-1955; printed minutes, 1853-2000; signed printed minutes, 1940-2000; agendas, 1938-2003; special agendas, 1928-2000; papers read in the Court, 1663-2004; various petitions, 17th and 18th century; printed reports, 1713-1714 and 1997-1998; pocket books, 1828-1999; papers relating to the election of Aldermen, 1443-1941; list of the names of Aldermen, 1270-1898; various papers regarding the admission, attendance and role of Aldermen, 1611-1979. Please note that some records are closed.

Records of the Royal Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem. About three-quarters of the records are solely of Bridewell Royal Hospital and have been catalogued as Bridewell Royal Hospital; the other quarter are joint records of the Royal Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem and have been catalogued under that name. A few records are essentially of Bridewell but have some Bethlem subject content. The joint records are largely constitutional, court, accounts and joint estate records, with some clerk's correspondence relating to both hospitals.

The archive has been catalogued in one block, regardless of whether individual records are of Bridewell Royal Hospital only or of Bridewell and Bethlem jointly. The archive includes Constitutional records; Minutes; Legal papers; Accounts; Clerk's papers; Prison records; Apprenticeship records; School records; Legacies; Estates records; Bridewell Chapel records; Bridewell Precinct records; and officers' private papers.

There is a general 30 year closure period. Pupil records have a 100 year closure period.

Records of the chaplain of Saint Charles Hospital, Kensington, comprising three registers of baptisms.

Registers of baptisms and Chaplain's journals for the Whittington Hospital (Highgate Wing), Highgate Hill.

Records of the Hospital of the Savoy, comprising grant of lands, bargain and sales, grant of annuity, and lease.

Printed material and circular letters relating to the Help Yourself Society, a fundraising charity.

Administrative records, Frimley Sanatorium Almoner's Department records, Chaplain's Department records, title deeds and related records, financial records, patient records, records of nursing education, photographs and illustrations, pharmacy records, surveyors' records, Works Office records and miscellaneous records.

Minutes of the House Committee and photographic postcards.

Comprises:

1. The Hospital: a weekly journal of Science, Medicine, Nursing and Philanthropy, editorial marked files, 1890-1923, containing manuscript annotations on each page identifying contributors to the Journal, with details of their remuneration;

2. The Hospital , incorporating the Hospital Gazette, bound volumes, 1935 - 1971, vols. 1-39 , continued as: The Hospital and Health Service Review, vols. 40-84, 1971 - 1988, vol. 85-87; continued as: Health Services Management, 1989 - 1991 (60 volumes + 60 volumes of duplicates);

3. Sir Henry Burdett [et al.]: Burdett's Hospitals and Charities: being the year book of philanthropy and The Hospital annual: 5th edition, 1894 - 38th edition, 1928;

4. . The Charity Record and Philanthropic News, vols. 1-4, 1881 - 1884 (4 volumes);

5. The Association of Clerks and Stewards of Mental Hospitals Journal, vols 5-17, 1920 - 1930; continues as The Incorporated Association of Clerks and Stewards of Mental Hospitals Journal, vols. 1-10, 1931 - 1942 (6 volumes);

6. Aldridge's Hospital Diary and Buyers's Guide, 1947 - 1953 (7 volumes);

7. Sir Henry Burdett [et al.]: Hospitals and Asylums of the World. vol. 1 Asylums; vol. 2. Asylum construction with plans and bibliography (1891); vol. 4. Hospital construction, with plans and bibliography (1892). J & A Churchill, London.

Administrative records, patient registers, nursing records and photographs.

Administrative records, chaplaincy records, clinico-pathological minute books, title deeds and other legal records, financial records, patient records, nursing records, photographs and records received from unofficial sources.

Comprises: Administrative Records; Financial Records; Estates; City and Hackney District Head Quarters; Management Services.

Comprises: administrative records; property and estate records; photographs; medical records; pathology records; staff records; external publications.

Records of Chartham Park Convalescent Home, comprising minutes of the Board of Governors and House Committee, 1950-1962, papers relating to the closure of the Home, 1961-1962 and lease of premises at Chartham Park, Lingfield, with plan, 1945.

Records of the Parkwood Convalescent Home, including Trustees' minutes, 1913-1950; House Committee agendas and minutes, 1950-1963; annual reports and accounts, 1926-1946; general administrative papers, 1962-1966; plans of the home, 1891; deeds, 1890-1954; scheme of regulation, 1946; registers of nurses, 1949-1963; photograph albums, 1890-1944; certificate of thanks from the Red Cross and St John War Organisation for loan of premises during World War Two, [1945] and an extract from The Quiver: 'Refitting for the Struggle - A visit to the hospital convalescent home at Parkwood', 1895.

Records of Putney Hospital including Putney Hospital Committee minutes and papers, 1905-1910; Board of Management minutes, 1923-1948; minutes of various other Hospital committees including the House, Finance, Medical, Appeal and Building Committees, 1909-1948; annual reports, 1912-1948; rules and regulations, 1912-1947; correspondence and papers relating to founding of hospital, 1903-1927; papers concerning fundraising, 1925-1945; plans, specifications and drawings for proposed building work, 1910-1962; registers of patients, 1935-1978; admissions registers, 1948-1972; daily and monthly patient statistics, 1964-1974; casualty registers, 1964-1976; ward report books, 1965-1972; Matron's report book, 1959-1968; register of nursing staff and salaries book, 1912-1937; Training school prospectuses and lecture notes, 1958-1959; South West London Area Matron's Committee agendas and minutes, 1948-1955; financial records, 1911-1945; photographs, 1935; histories of the hospital, 1908-1934 and newspaper cuttings, 1930-1935.

Records of the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, including Committee of Management minutes, 1842-1907; financial records, 1881-1945 and papers relating to endowments, 1886-1914.

Records of the Elizabeth Garret Anderson Hospital, including Annual Reports for 1872-1947; Annual meetings of Governors minutes and papers 1891-1949; Departmental annual reports 1948-1968; Managing Committee minutes 1871-1948; North London Group H.M.C. minutes and papers 1973-1974; House Committee minutes and papers 1890-1961; Building Committees minutes and papers 1888-1939; Maternity Committee minutes 1890-1932; Finance Committee minutes 1892-1948; Drugs, Pathological, and Departmental Committee minutes 1896-1939; Nursing Committee minutes and papers 1898-1913; 1936-1959; Hospital Committee minutes and reports 1948-1966; Medical Council minutes etc. 1935-1967; Rosa Morrison House Committee minutes 1912-1953; Appeals Committees minutes 1916-1929; Coed-Bel Cottage Committee minutes 1898-1932; Various Committees minutes and papers 1922-1967; North London Group H.M.C. minutes and papers 1968-1974; Matron's and Hospital Visitors' report books 1894-1963. Financial Ledgers, 1872-1892; 1922. Papers regarding acquisition of property and extension of hospital 1909-1948; Building of Nurses' House 1936-1940; Oster House, St Albans 1945-1947; Hampstead Children's Hospital 1946-1948; Miscellaneous contracts 1948; Endowments 1885-1954; Centenary celebrations 1964-1967; Complaints 1948-1964; World War II Emergency Hospital Services 1938-1946; Historical papers 1861-1935; Matron's and Secretary's files relating mainly to nursing 1906-1951; World War II Emergency Hospital Services 1939-1950; Formation of National Health Service 1944-1964; Records relating to staff 1955-1966. Registers of nurses 1898-1948; Registers of student nurses 1936-1945; Registers of midwives 1926-1936; Register of sisters and nurses 1941-1946.

Newspaper cuttings 1871-1968; Printing blocks n.d.; Photographs of hospital [1890s]-1966; Photographs of special occasions 1938-1948; Photographs of patients and staff [1930s]-1962; Photographs of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and her family [1890-1936]; Publications 1890-1926; Papers of Dorothy Merrikin, Matron, mostly relating to fund raising 1888-1977; Guild of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital 1908-1933.

Patient records for Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital 1912-1922; Coed-Bel House 1906-1925; Rosa Morrison House 1946-1949; Royal Free Hospital District Midwifery Service 1948-1953 Withdrawn; Gordon Pollock and Chadburn Wards 1959-1960.

Records of the Council for the Promotion of the Higher Training of Midwives, comprising council minutes, 1903-1938 and cash books, 1916-1941.

The records under this heading include administrative, patient and staff records relating to the hospitals managed as part of the Lambeth Group of Hospitals, 1857-1990.

Records of the Holmhurst Home, comprising Managers' minutes, 1951-1969.

Annual reports of Hendon District Hospital, 1937-1948.

Records of the Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, including minutes, 1954-1959; annual reports, 1875-1947; registers of operations, 1955-1966, matron's correspondence, 1950-1968 and general correspondence, 1908-1931.

Records of the Brook General Hospital, Woolwich, including patients' registers, 1897-1963; register of staff, 1926-1930; steward's report book, 1929-1936; account book, 1896-1930; inventories, 1896-1924; administrative files and histories of the hospital.

Records of the Banstead Hospital, 1835-1985; the Horton Hospital, 1900-1990 and the Horton Hospital Malaria Treatment Unit, 1889-1979. Papers include minutes, patient registers, case notes, treatment books, staff records, reports, visitors books, research papers, glass plate negatives, financial records, diaries, correspondence with the Public Health Laboratory and subject files relating to malaria and mosquitos.

Records of the Malaria Therapy Unit, Horton Hospital, including patient casebooks, 1931-1962; patient ward books, 1949-1950; malaria documentation books, 19-- -1966; indigenous malaria subject files arranged by location, 1917 - 1962; Public Health Laboratory Service correspondence and malaria case questionnaires, 1966-1979; mosquito surveys of places in Britain arranged by place and mosquito nuisance subject files, 1920-1968 and research files, 1910 - 1963, including notes on best practice in malaria therapy, lecture scripts, malaria on ships, mosquito identification and control, correspondence, cuttings from newspapers and journals and reviews of work by researchers at the Unit.

Records of the Caterham Emergency Hospital, 1940-1944, consisting of admission and discharge registers, registers of deaths and casualty registers for patients treated at the hospital.

Records of the South London Hospital for Women, 1911-1987, including administrative papers, minutes, staff records, nursing records, publicity and fund raising files, photographs, plans, magazines, programmes, scrapbooks and histories. Also minute books of the Clapham Maternity Hospital, later the Annie McCall Maternity Hospital, 1888-1959.

Records of the Clapham Maternity Hospital comprising committee minute book, October 1888-June 1939.

Records of the National Heart Hospital, consisting of a sample of the case files kept by the physicians of the hospital between 1907 and 1963 and photographs taken by Dr John Mathias Senior Registrar of the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom in 1968.

Records of Leavesden Asylum, later Leavesden Hospital, 1870-1974, including minutes and papers, case files, admission and discharge records, registers of patients, death registers, post mortem books, staff conduct books, plans and photographs.

Records of Saint Pancras' Institution including Master's Weekly and monthly reports, 1928-1938; Master's half-yearly and yearly reports, 1927-1938; Medical Officer's reports, 1923-1931 and offences and punishment book, 1914-1937.

Records of Saint Pancras Hospital including Steward's reports, 1924-1938 and 1946-1948; daily numbers book, 1940-1944; female patients' admission and discharge register, 1925-1939; magistrates book, 1948-1958; record of mechanical restraint and seclusion, 1940-1953; registers of baptisms, 1857-1940 and Chaplain's report books, 1893-1933.

Records of hospitals in the Royal Northern Hospital Group, 1835-1991, comprising Hornsey Central Hospital, Mildmay Memorial Hospital, Maternity Nursing Association, North London Medical and Chirurgical Society, Royal Chest Hospital, Royal Northern Hospital and Santa Claus Children's Home.

The papers include committee minutes, reports, financial papers, newspaper cuttings, leaflets and publications, histories, staff registers, regulations, plans and photographs. Patient records survive only for the Royal Northern Hospital.

Records of Chase Farm Hospital comprising plan of Edmonton Union New Schools showing layout of buildings and soil drains; plan of drains showing infirmary, cottage homes and infants school only and plan of drains, including ground floor plans of main building, infants school, cottage homes and infirmary, 1885-1889.

Also includes patient records (1938 - 1974), Medical School publication (1969 - 1990), staff recruitment display boards and redevelopment photographs (195- - 197-) and patient information booklets (1962 - 1972).

Records of the West Middlesex University Hospital and associated hospitals, 1841-1993, including Brentford Hospital, Chiswick Maternity Hospital, Hounslow Hospital, Saint John's Hospital, Twickenham, South Middlesex Hospital and the South West Middlesex Hospital Management Committee. Papers include committee minutes, reports, admission and discharge registers and other patient records, nursing and staffing records, rules and regulations, financial records, photographs, prospectuses and leaflets.

Records of Hammersmith Hospital, including registers of operations, 1930-1969; index registers of In-patients, 1937-1945; admission and discharge registers, 1936-1945; maternity registers, 1935-2000; baptism registers, 1930-1952 and papers regarding jubilee celebrations, 1955.

Records of the Royal Dental Hospital and School of Dental Surgery, 1838-1985 including board and committee minutes, annual reports, obligations books, calendars, papers regarding the closure of the hospital, the apportionment between the school and the hospital, history of the school and hospital, rules and laws, royal patronage, legal documents, treatment statistics, applications, deeds, and photographs.

Records of the Battersea and Putney Hospital Management Group, comprising Management Committee minutes and correspondence, 1948-1972.

Records of the South West Metropolitan Hospital Management Group, 1962-1976, including minutes of the Management, Finanice and General Purposes, Medical Advisory, Staff, Medical Records and Catering Committees, and various administrative files.

Records of the Children's Opthalmic Convalescent Home comprising annual reports, 1930-1934.

Records of the Joyce Green Hospital, 1873-1980, including Visiting committee and Chapel committee minutes; engineer's reports; papers of the Medical Officer; correspondence; administrative files on the River Ambulance service, hospital ships, and the Royal Commission on Vaccinations; case books; operations registers; baptism registers; death registers; cemetery registers; register of staff; nurses records; matron's records; chaplain's reports and journals; plans of hospital buildings; photographs used to aid identification of rashes, glass plate negatives of smallpox patients, stereograph viewer and prints.

Records of the Greenwich Group, 1948-1974, including minutes of the Hospital Management committee, Finance committee, General Purposes committee, Group Medical committee, Establishment committee, Nursing committee, Nurse Education committee, Staff committee, Works committee, Works and Supplies committee, Group Catering committee, Local Maternity Liaison committee and Ways and Means committee; seals registers and register of disclosures.

Patient case files from the Portman Clinic and the Tavistock Clinic, 1930-1979.

Records of the Children's Homoeopathic Dispensary, London Homoeopathic Convalescent Home, Eastbourne, and the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, 1884-1946.