Records of the Westminster Hospital, including minutes of the management, estates, finance, nursing, research, policy, catering, almoners, incurables, drugs and other committees, 1716-1969; relevant Acts of Parliament, 1835-1932; rules and regulations, 1835-1932; annual, matron's and secretary's reports, 1825-1971; papers concerning proposed amalgamations with other hospitals, 1907-1924; papers regarding non-nursing staff, 1749-1962; papers and photographs concerning ceremonies and celebrations, 1948-1967; administrative files on a variety of subjects including staffing, policy, research, legal proceedings, training, civil defence, World War Two, pathological services, pharmaceutical services, catering, equipment and wards, 1939-1969; registers of in-patients, 1933-1973; registers of patients, 1937-1958; registers of police and ambulance cases, 1937-1962; admission and discharge registers, 1961-1973; death registers, 1860-1967; operations books, 1939-1968; prescription book, 1733-1734; returns of cholera patients, 1849-1854; returns of patients, 1928-1963; Venereal Disease department registers, 1917-1974; registers of nurses, 1885-1950; Westminster Training School registers of nurses, 1899-1939; financial records and papers relating to endowments, 1719-1969; legal records, including deeds, 1881-1961; chaplain's records, 1790 and 1921-1973; medical school papers, 1822-1972 (not including student records); plans and architect's drawings, 1832-1937; papers relating to hospital societies and associations, 1848-1972; histories of the hospital, 1815-1974; press cuttings, 1921-1964; papers concerning special events, 1823-1973; papers concerning rebuilding of hospital, 1818-1939; Hospital publications, 1922-1974; newspaper articles, 1834-1966; Westminster street plans, 1809-1895 and conveyance of property in Little Oulde Bayliffe, parish of Saint Sepulchre, London, 1627.

Records of the Miller General Hospital, including Governors and Board of Management minutes, 1828-1948; Medical Council minutes, 1913-1928; Nursing Committee minutes, 1928-1948; annual reports, 1870-1948; file of correspondence and administrative papers relating to the purchase of 4 St. Johns Park, Blackheath, and its conversion to a Preliminary Training School for Nurses, 1945-1948; registers of patients, 1904-1945; Matron's report book, 1927-1948; staff registers, 1933-1951; salaries and wages books, 1921-1944 and history of the hospital, 1893.

Also financial accounts of the Kent Dispensary, 1783-1856.

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

Records of the Lambeth Group Hospital Management Committee, comprising Management Committee minute book, 1948-1951; Lambeth Group Medical Advisory Committee minutes, 1948-1957 and Establishment Sub-Committee minute book, 1948-1949.

Records of the Bushey Maternity Hospital, Hertfordshire, comprising admission and discharge registers, 1938-1939 and 1946; registers of confinements, 1945-1959; maternity case books, 1939-1958 and case books for women who were admitted to hospital during pregnancy but were discharged before delivery or who were admitted to hospital for treatment after childbirth, 1938-1959.

Annual reports of Hendon District Hospital, 1937-1948.

Records of St Mary Abbot's Hospital, Kensington, including instructions to gate porters, 1931-1944; inventories and stock lists, 1909-1968; admission and discharge registers, 1926-1950; premature discharge book, 1930-1936; index registers of patients, 1937-1948; creed registers, 1875-1933; maternity registers and related records, 1930-1944; registers of births, 1872-1952; registers of deaths, 1886-1937; mortuary register, 1942-1954; post mortem examination books, 1930-1938; register of bodies removed to school of anatomy, 1920-1946; registers of operations; 1951-1958; medical examinations of lunatics, 1932-1937; vaccinator's registers, 1929-1946 and notifications of admission and discharge of tuberculosis patients, 1936-1938.

Registers of officers at the Infirmary, 1887-1948; register of officers at the Workhouse, 1923-1932; nursing staff registers, 1891-1970; records of service and conduct, 1930-1950; nurses' monthly reports, 1904-1935; testimonial book, 1908-1932; financial records, 1930-1945; registers of baptisms, 1877-1920; registers of services, 1896-1977; chaplain's journals, 1928-1942?; From Workhouse to Hospital. The Story of St Mary Abbots Hospital, Kensington by Bernard Hughes, Hospital Chaplain, 1991 and brief biographies of Thomas Allom, architect of Kensington Workhouse, by Diana Brooks, and of William Glasby, designer of 1st World War Memorial Window for chapel, by Donald J.R. Green, 1993.

Records of Banstead Hospital, including committee papers, 1877-1949; Hospital Visitor files, 1877-1970; patient administration and statistics, 1877-1974; emergency arrangements, 1939-1940; admission and discharge registers, 1835-1978; burial registers, 1877-1955; treatment registers, 1890-1967; post mortem registers, 1907-1959; staff records, 1877-1965, financial records, 1873-1950 and photographs, 1985.

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 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 the Hornsey Central Hospital, comprising Council minutes, Sep 1921-Jul 1943 and minutes of the House Committee and sub-committees, 1909-1948.

Records of Hounslow Hospital, including management and administrative committee minutes, 1923-1976; memoranda, 1928-1948; registers of in-patients, 1922-1977; registers of operations, 1927-1977; registers of minor operations, 1930-1951; registers of war casualties, 1939-1941; patient statistics, 1944-1951; registers of student nurses, 1913-1944 and photographs of student nurse prize givings, 1960-1964.

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 Grove Park Hospital, including information and instructions for medical staff, 1964; architects plans mostly for upgrading and conversion of hospital, 1975 and subject files, 1954-1975, regarding various topics including Lewisham Group Hospital Management Committee reports, patient complaints, geriatric services, intensive care, nursing education, King's Fund patient survey, National Health Service (NHS) reorganisation and management schemes and structures.

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 Woolwich Memorial Hospital, Greenwich and Bexley Area Health Authority, and Woolwich Group Hospital Management Committee, 1912-1981. Papers include committee minutes, reports, press cuttings, rules, case regsiters, plans and prospectuses.

Records of the Woolwich Memorial Hospital including Board of Management minutes and papers, 1926-1948; general Committee minutes, 1918-1956; annual reports, 1912-1947; Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1913; rules and bye-laws, 1914; plan of the hospital mortuary, 1927; midwives registers of cases, 1945-1975; scrapbook containing notices concerning building and opening of hospital and newspaper cuttings, 1924-1931 and colour prospect of Hospital by architects, Messrs W A Pite and Son and Fairweather, 1921.

Records of institutions in the Springfield Hospital Group, 1844-1990, comprising Battersea and Putney Hospital Management Group, Lambeth Hospital Management Group, Saint James Hospital, Springfield Hospital, South West Metropolitan Hospital Management Group, Weir Hospital and Wandsworth Hospital. The papers include committee minutes, annual reports, administrative files, staff records, registers of patients, financial records, visitor's books, plans and photographs.

Records of Springfield Hospital, 1844-1990, including committee minutes and papers, annual reports, reports by the Commissioners of Lunacy and the Commissioners of the Board of Control, general administrative files, records of the League of Friends, admission and discharge registers, death, discharge and transfer registers, medical journals and treatment records, social histories of patients, staff records, financial records, plans of the hospital, photographs and publications.

Records of the Royal London Opthalmic Hospital (later renamed Moorfields Eye Hospital), 1804-1959, including papers relating to the centenary appeal; minutes of committees including the Appeals Committee, Building Committee, Management Committee, Drug Committee, Election Committee, Finance Committee, Governors Annual Meeting, House Committee, Medical Board, Organisation Committee, Special Appeal Committee and Select Committee on Changes Proposed in Medical Department; papers of the London Dispensary for the relief of the poor afflicted with diseases of the Eye and Ear; annual reports; annual reports of the London Infirmary for the Curing of Diseases of the Eye, financial records, leaflets, addresses and histories.

The only surviving patient records are surgeon's case books from 1879.

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 Society relating to Manor House Hospital, Golders Green and associated sites of treatment including minutes of committees, matron's and surgeon's reports to the House Committee which include details on named patients and deaths (1920-1968) (H53/A/03/03) and comprehensive series of annual reports.

Also held are rules, circulars and subject files of the General Secretary (later the Chief Administrative Officer in 1980s and Chief Executive in the 1990s) on a wide range of subjects including membership, scope of treatment, staff, premises including Inverforth House and the Pergola and Ivy House, regional organisation, funds and royal visits. Also held are a presentation volume to Lord and Lady Hague with original artwork depicting the premises and a book of remembrance presented to the hospital after the Second World War (H53/B/11/001-002). Financial series (H53/C) include annual returns and cash books.

Records on patients treated at Manor House Hospital (H53/D) are incomplete. They comprise admission and discharge and operation registers (1933-1978), lists of members by firm (1931-1993) and bed statistics. The volumes do not provide detailed information on patients and their treatment.

Records of the Society's regional areas and districts (H53/E) consist mainly of extensive series of minutes held by regional and district secretaries across England, Scotland and Wales. The Northern Area records include subject files and financial records.

Printed material (H53/F) includes comprehensive series of press cuttings with indexes, publications, brochures, articles, histories and newsletters. There are souvenir brochures for openings of premises, royal visits and related events, and some artefacts including badges.

Also held are papers of A V Alexander, President of the Society (H53/H) including photographs, artwork, correspondence and history.

Extensive series of photographs and slides depicting the buildings, staff and events (H53/G) remain uncatalogued. Please contact staff for further information.

Records of the Florence Nightingale Hospital for Gentlewomen, 1892-1953, including annual reports, administrative files including correspondence and requisitions, accounts, papers regarding legacies and bequests and legal papers relating to property transactions. There are no surviving medical or patient records for this hospital.

Volume containing "Articles of Enquiry at the Visitation of the Hospitall of the Savoy near the Strand in the County of Middlesex ... by the right Honourable Sir Nathan Wright, Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and as such visitor of all the Hospitalls of Royal foundation ..."

Records of Darenth Adult Asylum, comprising Medical Superintendent's instructions, visitor's book, correspondence, weekly wage books, monthly salaries books, admission, discharge, transfer and death registers, Chaplain's interment registers, plans of the hospital buildings, photographs of officers and staff, documentation of entertainments laid on by patients and staff and an oral history of the visit of a former patient to the hospital.

Records of Bexley Hospital, including medical superintendent's reports (1907-1916); staff registers (1897-1944); accounts and ledgers (1899-1939); patient admissions and discharges (1899-1972); case books (1899-1951); medical registers (1898-1952); post mortem books (1898-1949); death registers (1907-1982); burial registers (1900-1917); civil registers (1910-1948); mechanical restraint registers (1934-1961); birth registers (1979-1986); equipment books (1901-1902); ward and office inventories (1901-1948).

Records of Victoria Hospital for Children, including registers of deaths, post mortem reports, operations books, papers and correspondence relating to patients and staff, registers of nurses, staff record cards, staff lists.

Administrative and financial records are uncatalogued as of February 2012, please see staff for further details.

Records of Ashford Hospital including registers of births, deaths, creed, admission and discharge, defectives, lunatics and wages receipt books, 1848-1954.

Records of the Kensington Poor Law Union, 1837-1931, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; standing orders; year books; orders from and correspondence with Government departments; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from the Union; registers of lunatics; lunatic reception orders; registers of paupers in various hospitals; apprenticeship indentures; registers of children at the Kensington and Chelsea Branch School (Marlesford Lodge, Hammersmith), and the Kensington and Chelsea District School, Banstead; registers of boys and girls in employment; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of the London County Council Public Health Department relating to general and special hospitals, 1894-1967, including administrative papers; minutes and papers from meetings of management staff; papers relating to planning; papers relating to the introduction of the National Health Service; papers relating to appropriated hospitals; papers relating to the running of hospitals including nutrition, mortuaries, anaesthetics, operating theatres, nursing, after care, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, chapels and x-ray equipment; papers relating to the treatment of mental patients and statistics.

Papers relating to treatment and research for particular diseases and conditions including cancer; cerebro-spinal fever (meningitis); diabetes; epilepsy; fractures; gastro-intestinal diseases; influenza; jaundice; childbirth; measles; neurological cases; poliomyelitis; puerperal fever; pneumonia; rheumatism; smallpox; tuberculosis; typhus; venereal diseases; anthrax; diphtheria and scarlet fever (scarlatina).

Papers relating to individual LCC hospitals and institutions, including Archway Hospital; Bethnal Green Hospital; Brook Hospital; Colindale Hospital; Dulwich Hospital and Saint Francis Hospital; Fulham Hospital; Goldie Leigh Hospital; Grove Hospital; Hackney Hospital; Hammersmith Hospital; Heatherwood Hospital; Highgate Hospital; King George V Sanatorium, Godalming; Lambeth Hospital; Millfield Convalescent Hospital, Rustington; Northern Hospital; North-Eastern Hospital; North-Western Hospital; Paddington Hospital; Pinewood Sanatorium; Princess Mary's Convalescent Home, Margate; Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton; Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup; River Hospitals (Long Reach Hospital, Joyce Green and Orchard Hospital); Saint Alfege's Hospital; Saint Anne's Home, Herne Bay; Saint Benedict's Hospital, Tooting; Saint Charles Hospital; Saint James' Hospital; Saint John's Hospital; Saint Luke's Hospital, Chelsea; Saint Margaret's Hospital; Saint Mary Abbots Hospital; Saint Mary (Islington) Hospital; Saint Nicholas Hospital; Saint Olave's Hospital; Saint Pancras Hospital and Institution; Saint Peter's Hospital, Whitechapel; Saint Stephen's Hospital; South-Eastern Hospital; Southern Hospital; South-Western Hospital and White Oak Hospital.

Papers of the Departmental Committee on Hospital Students; Departmental Committee on the Pharmacopoeia; Departmental Committee on Fracture Clinics; Departmental Committee on Patients' Property; Departmental Committee on Quarantine and Disinfection; Departmental Committee on the Incidence of Tuberculosis among Nursing Staff; Departmental Committee on the Treatment of Tuberculosis and the Ministry of Health Committee on the Cost of Hospitals and other Public Buildings.

Reports and directories including surveys of those hospitals transferred to the LCC in 1930; Joint Survey of Medical Services in the County of London, 1933; LCC Pharmacopoeia; Rules for the Care and Control of Poisons and Medicines in Hospitals and Institutions, 1936, and pamphlets relating to various hospitals and services.

Also registers, 1933-1945, including combined case register and index of patients evacuated from LCC hospitals to Turnberry Emergency Hospital, Ayrshire; register of smallpox cases in London; registers of fever patients.

Handwritten journal of C W Krohne reporting inquests on deaths under anaesthesia, 1903-1904, summarising cases in hospitals in various locations in the UK. With two advertisements for Krohne & Sesemann products, 1934 and undated, and biographical information on Krohne and his company.

Archives of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery comprising: Broad Management and Administration records: Annual reports 1859-1948; Board of Governors’ minutes 1865-1948; Finance Committee 1902-1948; Appeal Committee minutes 1935-1944; Medical Committee minutes 1877-1948; Sub-committee minutes 1894-1948; Trust Fund/accounts 1895-1901; Medical School Committee 1919-1938; Papers relating to the dispute between the medical staff and the Administration 1899-1901; Register of Bequests 1861-1908, 1930s-1940s; Property leases, agreements etc 1881-1850, 1930-40s; Correspondence/drawings re rebuilding 1877-1882; Building layouts/ copy plans covering both hospitals 1894-1963; Statistics 1897-1939; Patient records: Physicians’ Case notes (including surgery reports) 1861-1946; Clinical Pathology register 1937-1952; Staff records: Weekly/staff reports by Lady Superintendent 1902-1957; Nursing certificates register 1895-1949; Nursing staff appointments register 1903-1949; Male nurse register 1929-1948; School of Massage minutes,syllabus, accounts 1929-1935; School of Massage Register of certificates awarded 1905-1937; Domestic staff/ward orderlies appointments 1930-1966; Photographs: Approximately 3,000 covering staff, special occasions, buildings, wards and theatres.

Constitutional and legal records of Great Ormond Street Hospital, 1703-1991, comprising 'Memoranda and Articles of Association', 1914; annotated 1936; 1939; Constitution and Rules of the Hospital, 1908 and 1924 editions; register of seals, 1952-1960; Miscellaneous legal correspondence, 1930-1932; copy letters to the Hospital’s and other lawyers regarding the revision of Articles of Association; Peter Pan copyright agreements with the Daniel Mayer Co., and George Bell Ltd.; administration of legacies to the Hospital; administration of Hospital property and tenancies, Guilford Street, London. Deeds of Hospital properties in and around Great Ormond Street,1703-1991

Records of donors for Great Ormond Street Hospital, comprising: GOS/6/1 Lists and Registers, comprising GOS/6/1/1,Register of Life Governors, 1852-1890; GOS/6/1/2, Register of Life Donors, 1898-1908, with the Hospital's supporters since 1852; GOS/6/1/3-5, General Register of Donations and Subscriptions, January 1891-1900; GOS/6/1/6-7, Register of Life Governors, 1889-1908, with details of their date of joining since 1852, and Register of their Letters of Recommendation for patient admissions; GOS/6/1/8, Register of Donors under 30 Guineas, 1890-1897, with details of their donations since 1852, and Register of their Letters of Recommendation for patient admissions.

GOS/6/1/9, Register of Legacies, 1855-1893, including GOS/6/1/10-11, Registers of Wills and Bequests, 1884-1908; GOS/6/1/12, Register of Legacy Notices, 1903-06; GOS/6/1/13, Annual Register of Subscriptions, 1938; GOS/6/1/14, Financial Secretary's Report Book on Donations, 1923-1925; GOS/6/1/15-38 Correspondence concerning legacies to the Hospital, 1910-1948; GOS/6/1 /39, Legacies correspondence, loose copy Wills and related Probate information, 1909.

GOS/6/1/40-41 Sampled correspondence concerning personal and organisational donations to the Hospital, 1951-1959 and 1965-1969; GOS/6/1 /42-43, Deeds of Covenant, 1936-1953; GOS/6/1 /44, Register of Wills, 1934; GOS/6/1 /45-46, Register of Gifts, 1914-1941; GOS/6/1/48, Register of Ladies Applied to for Patronage, 1910; GOS/6/1/49 Register of Donors for Borough of Holborn Rebuilding Fund, 1933-1934; GOS/6/1/50, Appeal Book for Restoration of Hospital after Wartime bombing, 1945, autographed by members of the Royal Family, the British and United States' Governments, and leading Hollywood actors, actresses and producers; GOS/6/1/51, General Register of Donations, 1965-1971; GOS/6/1/52, Register of Donations to the Samaritan Fund, 1915-1917; GOS/6/1/53-54, Register of Legacies and their Subsequent Administration 1884-1948.

GOS/6/2-4, Major Patrons and Benefactors, comprising GOS/6/2/1-5, Gifts from the Royal family, correspondence regarding opening ceremonies, visits etc, 1872-1977.

GOS/6/3, The W. H. Barry Bequest (gift by William Henry Barry of the Hospital Chapel, and its Endowment for Services in Perpetuity), comprising GOS/6/3/1-6, Service Registers and Bequest agreements with Clergy, 1891-1963; GOS/6/3/7, Correspondence concerning the administration of the Barry Bequest, 1926-1960, including the arrangements for the appointment and transfer of Clergy, discussions on the use of the Chapel for Nonconformist services, the financial administration of the Bequest, a copy of W. H. Barry's Will (1892), and a pedigree of Barry family.

GOS/6/3/11-17, Chapel Baptism Registers, 1866-1988 *; GOS/6/3/18-19, Chapel Prayer Books, 1875; GOS/6/3/20, Order of Service for Hospital Chapel, 1875; GOS/6/3/21Certificate notifying his family of the Baptism of a named patient, 1917, GOS/6/3/22, Certificate of Christian baptism, 2002.

Sir J M Barrie and Peter Pan Copyright Gift GOS/6/4/1-2, Correspondence concerning gift of Copyright of Peter Pan to the Hospital by Sir James Barrie, with subsequent letters and press-cuttings, 1930-1977; GOS/6/4/3, Manuscript text of Barrie's speech to Guildhall Dinner on behalf of the Hospital, with annotated typescript copy, 1930; GOS/6/4/4-6 Correspondence from Sir J. M. Barrie 1929-1932; GOS/6/4/7-8 Membership and Subscriptions Register for the Peter Pan League, and correspondence, 1937-1949.

GOS/6/4/9-189, Correspondence concerning the administration of the Peter Pan Copyright gift, including correspondence with publishers, film companies, theatres, television companies, producers of overseas and foreign-language editions, 1929-1981;( /65 includes 2 letters of J M Barrie, correspondence with Barrie's Secretary, Cynthia Asquith, and reminiscences of the circumstances of Barrie's copyright gift by Hodder's Chairman, 1930-1972, /137 includes details of litigation with the Disney Corporation, 1962-1965; GOS/6/4/190, Correspondence between Lord Callaghan of Cardiff and Sir Cyril Chantler on the circumstances of the 1988 Peter Pan copyright extension to the Hospital, and the assistance given by Lady Callaghan; GOS/6/4/191, Set of Peter Pan commemorative stamps issued by the Royal Mail for the Hospital's 150th Anniversary year, 2002; GOS/6/4/192 Agreement with Samuel French Ltd regarding the licensing rights for amateur stage performances of Peter Pan, 20 October 1977; GOS/6/4/193 Hospital Charity's 'Activity List' of Peter Pan Centenary activities, 2004.

GOS/6/5 Commemorative and Endowed Cot Bequests, including GOS/6/5/1-5, Registers of Special Cots, 1868-1932; GOS/6/5/6 Register of Named Cots and Donors, circa 1930(updated, with amendments to 1968); GOS/6/5/7 Indexed volume listing Named and Endowed Cots, circa 1945; GOS/6/5/8, Register of Commemorative Plates at the Hospital, with information on the circumstances of the commemoration, circa 1955.

GOS/6/5/9-133 Correspondence files on the naming and sponsoring of individual commemorative cots, c 1920-1970, also including general files on the naming and listing of cots, 1936-1969, and files on the design and use of commemorative cot-plates, 1936-1956.

Miscellaneous Fundraising, GOS6/6/1- , including Fundraising dinners 1887-1890; GOS/6/6/7-9 The Imperial Coronation Bazaar, 1902; GOS/6/6/10, Correspondence and Reports concerning fund-raising for the Hospital by the Metropolitan Hospitals Sunday Fund, 1903-1906; GOS/6/6/11, File concerning advertising for special appeal on behalf of war-injured children from Europe, 1914; GOS/6/6/13, Correspondence concerning Appeal for the Children's Hospital City (a proposed new country Hospital under Great Ormond Street auspices), 1921; GOS/6/6/14/1-6, Correspondence concerning the commemorative naming of Wards, 1924-2000; GOS/6/6/15, Correspondence with overseas Donors, 1924-1969; GOS/6/6/16, Correspondence concerning Garden Party at Marlborough House in aid of the Hospital, 1931; GOS/6/6/17, Typescript texts of short stories submitted by Authors without fee for Appeal Fund; GOS/6/6/18, Correspondence concerning the Hospital's Ladies Association, 1937-1938.

GOS/6/6/19, Book of Gratitude, produced by the Hospital to record leading benefactors, 1940; GOS/6/6/21, General correspondence concerning Legacies to the Hospital, 1959-1964; GOS/6/6/23-26, Correspondence concerning the establishment and implementation of the Sir Denis Browne Memorial Fund (for Travelling Scholarships for clinical staff), 1967-1975, including Minutes of the Fund's Committee; GOS/6/6/29, Deed of Grant of Annuity of £120 between the Hospital and Reverend Joshua Wilson Coombs of Nice, in return for endowment of cot in memory of his daughter.

GOS/6/6/30*, Deeds of Covenant to the Hospital, with related correspondence 1934-1957; GOS/6/6/34, Papers relating to Sotheby's Auction of Hospital artworks at Hopetoun House, 1983, including portrait of Margaret Henley (the original inspiration for Wendy); GOS/6/6/3,5 GOSH Fundraising department's Corporate Pack, 1997; GOS/6/6/36, Survey of gifts of over £500 received by the Hospital since 1937, compiled prior to joining the National Health Service in 1948.

GOS/6/7/1-40, Wishing Well Appeal papers, 1985-1989; GOS/6/8/1, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity fund-raising literature, 2002; GOS/6/8/2 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity Newsletter, 2003- date.

Registers of Patients of Great Ormond Street Hospital, comprising: GOS/9/1 containing General In- Patient Admissions Registers, 1852-1960; the Ward Registers, GOS/9/2, 1927-1988, cover the main hospital general admissions by ward name (Medical and Surgical), Tadworth Court (House Ward) Admissions, admissions for the following wards: Mr Punch, Winston Churchill, Peter Pan, 2 D, 2 C, Louise, Annie Zunz. 4 D and E, Dresden, 6 A, B, C and D, short stay surgery cases, and cardio-thoracic cases.

GOS/9/2/30-34 and 39 covering the ENT/Dental Ward Register, September 1954-December 1973; GOS/9/2/49 Ward Register (ward 4AB, Surgery), 1985-88.

GOS/9/2/52 is a card index of patients, unidentified ward, 1956-1959; GOS/9/3 contains Surgical Operations Registers, 1864-1902, Theatre Operations Books, October 1901-1904, In-Patient Operations Books, 1904-1938 (with gaps), Neurosurgery Operations Registers, 1955-1978, Operations Register, 1960-1962, Operations Books for specific theatres, 1965-1971.

GOS/9/4 holds Anaesthesia Registers, 1894-1902, 1938-1965; GOS/9/5 Statistical Registers of Out-Patient Attendances, 1904-1960 (with gaps); GOS/9/6 Out-Patient Operations Registers, 1918, 1921, 1926; GOS/9/6/4 Out-Patient Operations Book, Casualty Theatre, 1937; GOS/9/6/5 Out-Patient Operations Book, North End Theatre, 1938-1974; GOS/9/6/6 Out-Patient Operations Book, Casualty Theatre (Tonsil Theatre), 1942-1947.

GOS/9/7 Medical Reports, (Weekly and daily returns of patient statistics; some volumes contain annotations concerning individual patients, and from 1922 lists of deaths), 1855-1963; GOS/9/7/13 Home Sister's Daily Returns of Patients, 1893-1906; GOS/9/7/14-18 Matron's Daily Returns Book, 1907-1961.

GOS/9/8 consists of Other Patient Registers; GOS/9/8/1 'The First Admissions Register' (possibly of Out-Patients seen by Dr Charles West), 1852-1855; GOS/9/8/2 Register of Out-Patients (seen by Dr William Jenner), 1855-1858; GOS/9/8/3 Register of Patient Deaths, 1860-1863; GOS/9/8/4 Register of Patients Admitted when under Two years of Age, 1861-1882; GOS/9/8/5 Register of 'Casual Fever' Cases, 1857-1875; GOS/9/8/6 Casual Fever Register (Volume 8), 1924-1930.

GOS/9/8/7 Admissions Book for children admitted to the Hospital's Infant Nursery (Creche) 1859-1864 (Admission application summaries, including occupations of the children's parents); GOS/9/8/8-9 Register of Beds (Daily totals by Ward/Officer), 1868-1886; GOS 9/8/10-13 Patients Admissions Registers (possibly the Lady Superintendent's counterparts to the main series of admissions registers, GOS/9/1 above).

GOS/9/8/10-13 Admissions Registers, 1870-1892; GOS/9/8/14 Register of Patients who were In-Patients for 2 Months and Upwards, 1915-1922; GOS/9/8/15 Registers of Surgical Patients, 1887-1891 (of Edmund Owen, Howard Marsh, John H. Morgan and Bernard Pitts, also enclosures, Attendance Cards of individual patients); GOS/9/8/16 Register of Applications for In-Patient Beds, 1881-1892(Refused applications from the Hospital's Subscribers, giving grounds for refusal; also contains enclosure, bundle of admission request forms from Governors, 1892); GOS/9/8/17 Applications Register for Surgical Admissions, 1919-1920;GOS/9/8/18 Applications for Admission, 1920-1925.

GOS/9/8/19 Almoner's Patient Register, 1945; GOS/9/8/20 World War II Casualty Clearing Station Register, 1940-1945; GOS/9/8/21 Register of Patients, with summaries of their condition(listed alphabetically by condition), 1946-1948; GOS/9/8/22 Temperature Register, Girl's Surgical Ward, 1908-1910; GOS/9/8/23 Temperature Register, Boy's Surgical Ward, 1908-1910; GOS/9/8/24 Temperature Register, Ward 5B, February-May 1970; GOS/9/8/25 Register of Patient Post- Mortem Permissions, 1921-1948.

GOS/9/8/26-32 Casualty Registers, 1921-1986; GOS/9/8/33 -36 Private Patient Register, 1938-1976 (note, although described as 'Private Patient Register' on the cover, the contents of 8/35-36 appear to be further Casualty Registers); GOS/9/8/37 Index to Private Patient Registers, 1949-1952; GOS/9/8/38 Register of Admissions to the Paul Sandifer Unit, 1959-1968; GOS/9/8/39 Register of Conditions treated at the Hospital (unbound draft, for 1932 Annual Report); GOS/9/8/40 Register of Operations, 1931 (unbound monthly statistical returns, by Ward); GOS/9/8/41 Statistical Register of Operations conducted at the Hospital, 1932; GOS/9/8/42 Register (unbound)of conditions treated at the Hospital, 1932; GOS/9/8/43 Statistical Summary of conditions treated at the Hospital, 1935; GOS/9/8/44 Statistical summary, Operations performed in the Hospital's In-Patient Theatre, 1935; GOS/9/8/45 Register of Operations performed at the Hospital, 1936; GOS/9/8/46 Register of Operations performed at the Hospital, 1937; GOS/9/8/47 Asthma Clinic Admissions Register (unbound), 1943-1945.

Papers of John E (Jack) Piercy, Surgeon Superintendent at New End Hospital 1932-1965, comprising lecture notes on the history of New End Hospital [1934] and diseases of the thyroid [c1937], correspondence, photographs and papers on the official opening of the Thyroid Clinic and Department of Endocrinology at New End by the Duke of Edinburgh, 1955; photographs and press cuttings on Piercy's retirement as Surgeon-Superintendent of New End, 1965; photopraphs and press cuttings on the opening of Piercy Ward at New End, 1978; photographs of prizegivings at New End School of Nursing, 1950 and undated.

Letter from Henry Crab Robinson of 30 Russell Square, [London] to Dr [Edward Henry] Sieveking, 23 Dec [1850-1860]. Thanking him for a book. 'Next year I shall, I trust, be en fonds for your hospital. The extreme distress of our College Hospital, [University College Hospital] has obliged me within a few days to give a 4th £10 for owing to the falling off of students this year, we shall not be able to go on with as many beds as hitherto ...'.

Autograph, with signature.

Administrative records, Chaplaincy records, financial records and patient records.

Administrative records; records of the Cardiac Department; records of Chaplain's Department; records of the Neurophysiology Department [a.k.a. E.E.G. Department]; title deeds, leases, trusts etc; records of the Dermatology Department; financial records; records of the Department of General Medicine; records of the London Linden Hall Association; patient records; records of the Department of Medical Photography; Medical Unit records; nursing records; records of the Nutrition and Dietetics department; nursing education records; records of the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry; records of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department; records of Orthopaedics Department; Occupational Therapy Department; photographs; records of the Pharmacy Department; records of the Public Relations Department; records of the London Hospital Photographic Society; records of the Radiotherapy Department; records of the Radiology Department; surveyors and estate records; records of the Social Society; records of the Works Department; records from unofficial sources, and persons and subject files.

Administrative records, deeds, financial records, patient records, nursing records and photographs.

Administrative records, Chaplain's records, patient records, nursing records, photographs and miscellaneous records.

Administrative records, financial records, patient records, nursing and midwifery training records.

Comprises: Engineering Department; Administrative records; Financial records; Estate and property records; Postcards; Photographs; Internal publications; Medical Committee; Nursing records; Medical Photography/Illustration Department; Medical records; Pathology records; League of Friends; Nurses League; Staff records; Operating theatre registers; External Publications.

Comprises: Administrative records; Estate and property records; Matron's office and nursing; Medical records; School of Nursing records.

Comprises annual reports and prospectuses.

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.

Papers of Miss E M McInness comprising files containing a draft typescript history of St Thomas' Hospital, with proposed illustrations, and some manuscript notes.

Records, [1820s]-1984, of the Chadwick Trust. Administrative papers comprise legal papers setting up the Trust, 1890-1896; minute books, 1895-1983; annual reports, 1962-1978; lists of securities, 1914-1917; corrected booklet The Chadwick Trust, 1926-1937; script of a proposed film treatment of Sir Edwin Chadwick, 1958; signing-in book for meetings, 1972-1980. Financial papers comprise account books, 1958-1979; tax claims, 1972-1976; financial files, 1972-1980; correspondence on tax reclaimed, 1980. Papers on lectures given under the auspices of the Trust comprise announcements of lectures, 1913-1935; printed copies of lectures held under the Trust's auspices, 1930-1967, the subjects including public health and buildings, sewerage, nutrition, disease, air quality, training and public health, medical provision, and public health work overseas; other printed lectures and writings, 1896-1932, the subjects including aspects of sanitation, disease, and Sir Edwin Chadwick. Correspondence comprises general correspondence, 1913-1924, 1971-1982; correspondence of the Clerk of the Trust, 1969-1979; correspondence of G M Binnie, 1944-1980; Charity Commission correspondence, 1962-1978; correspondence relating to medals and a memorial prize, 1966-1978; Trustees, 1969-1977; receptions, meetings and lectures, 1970-1978; blue plaque, 1972-1976; costing of activities, 1974; annual reports, 1974-1979; transfer of the Trust to University College London, 1974-1984. Miscellaneous items pertaining to Edwin Chadwick, [1820s]-1889, include his diary [1820s] and patents of his inventions, 1871-1872. Other acquired papers comprise printed ephemera including circulars against inoculation [1914-1918] and undated printed extracts from a hymn on sanitation. Photographs include undated prints of Edwin Chadwick and other eminent scientists; undated slides for a lecture, including various 19th-century public figures, 19th- and 20th-century mortality rates, and various London hospitals; and photographs, 1980, of a plaque to Chadwick at his birthplace in Longsight, Greater Manchester.

Sir James Paget's index to references for medical biographies, intended for the Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1842-44), c.1844.