Papers of the West Lambeth Health Authority, including:
District Management Team minutes, 1974-1991;
standing orders and provisions in the National Health Service Regulations governing the conduct of meetings and proceedings of the authority, 1982;
reports and papers relating to planning for healthcare provision, 1974-1986;
papers regarding the computer policy, 1976-1985;
general reports and papers relating to the functioning of the hospitals, 1974-1984;
papers of the Department of Community Medicine, 1973-1979;
papers relating to Lambeth Hospital and Community Care Centre, 1977-1986;
papers relating to the South Western Hospital, 1973-1983;
papers of the Terminal Care Support Team, 1977-1982;
papers relating to Tooting Bec Hospital, 1975-1985;
publications, 1975-1988;
issues of 'Inner Circle', staff newsletter, 1976-1988;
papers relating to the proposed transfer of the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, 1982-1987;
papers relating to Saint John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, 1981-1985;
papers relating to other hospitals, including the South Western Hospital, 1979-1981, South London Hospital for Women, 1974-1989, Royal Waterloo Hospital, 1978-1981, Grosvenor Hospital, 1979-1980 and Belgrave Hospital, 1980-1987;
papers of the Strategies and Resources Advisory Committee, 1987-1990;
minutes and papers of West Lambeth Health Authority meetings, 1982-1993;
district reviews, 1983-1987;
papers of the Resource Allocation Working Party, 1982-1988;
membership papers, including correspondence, 1987-1999;
Saint Thomas' Health District (Teaching), District Management Team master papers, 1974-1981;
West Lambeth Health Authority, District Management Team master papers, 1981-1992;
District General Managers Advisory Group papers, 1985-1990;
District Management Board papers, 1986-1990;
Nursing Policy Group meeting papers, 1976-1982;
reports and papers of the Chief Nursing Officer, 1965-1987.

Records of Chiswick Maternity Hospital comprising operations register, 1943-1968 and births register, 1943-1975.

Records of the Dartford and Darenth Hospital Management Committee, including Committee and sub-committee minutes (1949-1974), Darenth Park Hospital annual reports submitted to Committee (1957-1959), Secretary's files, photographs and booklet.

Records of the Royal Free Hospital and associated hospitals including the official corporate records of the Royal Free Hospital, London, from its foundation in 1828 up to c 2000.

Also the following collections from hospitals that were part of the Royal Free Group or Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust:

London Fever Hospital

The North-Western Fever Hospital

The North-West London Hospital

Hampstead General Hospital

Children's Hospital Hampstead

New End Hospital

Hospital for Diseases of the Throat in Golden Square

Central London Throat Nose and Ear Hospital

Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital

Coppett's Wood Hospital

Records of the Central London Throat Nose and Ear Hospital including a small collection of surviving corporate records.

Nursing records have a general closure period of 100 years from date of birth.

Records of the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden Square including the official corporate records of the hospital.

Patient records have a general closure period of 100 years from date of birth.

Records of the Hampstead General Hospital, formerly the Hampstead Home Hospital Hospital and Nursing Institute, 1882-1975, comprising:

Administrative records, notably Annual Reports, 1906-1945; Council minutes, 1886-1889, 1895-1948; House Committee minutes, 1886-1948; Visitors Books, 1898-1946; Building Committee minutes, 1899-1912; Medical Committee minutes, 1905-1974; correspondence and papers on dispute with the British Medical Association over the appointment of local medical practitioners to the Hospital, 1908-1910; Chaplain's Attendance and Report Book, 1911-1919; West End War Memorial Bed Committee minutes, 1921-1936; House Inspection reports, 1927-1947; Seal Books, 1931-1939; First Aid Post correspondence and accounts, 1940-1945; Nursing/Education Committee minutes, 1943-1967; Nurse Preliminary Training School Committee minutes, 1943-1953; Hospital Committee minutes, 1948-1951

Financial records, including Finance Committee minutes, 1901-1948; Audited Accounts, 1911-1948; Wages Book, 1912-1917; Medical Costs, 1915-1917; Clinical Analysis and Costs, 1931-1950; Patient's accounts, 1949-1968

Patient records, including Consultant books of Sidney Boyd, 1910-1939; Operating Department Registers 1970-1974; X-Ray Department Registers, 1968-1975

Ladies Association Annual Reports, 1914-1972; minutes, 1899-1912; Treasurer's records, 1952-1975

Nurses League publications, correspondence, photographs and ephemera, 1955-2000

Records of the London Fever Hospital, Islington, latterly the Liverpool Road branch of the Royal Free Hospital, 1801-1975 comprising:

Administrative records, 1801-1948; notably Annual Reports, 1815-1931; Committee Minutes, 1801-1947 (volume for 1815-1818 lost); Sub-Committee minutes, 1835-1847, 1880-1929; Secretary's letter books, 1914-1920 and correspondence files, 1937-1956, register of employees, 1917-1924, 1936-1939; House Director's minutes, 1858-1940; Visitor's Book, 1928-1940.

Financial records, including Capital Dividend Accounts, 1887-1921; records of Monthly expenditure, 1918-1949; salaries, 1932-1944; papers on legacies and bequests to LFH, 1880-1947, including copies of wills in which there were bequests to the Hospital; Subscriptions and Donations Register, 1932-1937 and papers of Development Committee on appeal for funds, 1936-1939

Nursing records, including Trained Nurses Registers, 1920-1945; Register of Probationers, 1920-1939; Register of voluntary and part-time staff, 1939-1945; inventory of linen and bedding, 1881-1907

Patient records including reports of Resident Medical Officer, 1824-1825, 1875-1886, 1928-1934; Patients Admission and Discharge Registers, 1837-1874, 1880-1888, 1896-1911, 1916-1938; Death Registers, 1849-1853, 1864, 1867-1869; Consultant's books, 1921-1938, containing patient notes organised by Consultant, Dr Charles Box, Sir John Broadbent, Dr William Hunter, Dr C Lakin, and Sir William Willcox; Anaesthetic registers, 1955-1975

World War Two records including Air Raid Casualty Records, 1943-1944; Casualty List, 1940; Operating Theatre Record Books (air raid casualties), 1940-1944

Press Cuttings, 1882-1948 (4 vols)

Albums (2 vols) containing blocks and photographs, 1934-1942;

City of London Maternity Hospital: correspondence, accounts, minutes of finance committee and weekly board, including details of proposed 'regionalisation' of London maternity services, 1941-1948.

The archives of New End Hospital, Hampstead, comprising series of administrative and patient records, registers, photographs and records of education and training, 1914-1981, comprising:

Administrative Records, notably Medical Superintendent's reports, 1926-1930, containing details of births and deaths, accident and emergency admissions and summaries of operations performed; Medical Committee minutes, 1968-1973 and correspondence, 1969-1974; Archway Group Hospital Management Committee Annual Reports, 1948-1962; Fire Drill Instruction Reports, 1942-1981; Chaplain's Journal, 1965-1977, containing record of services and hospital visits; Planning Committee minutes, 1963-1967;

Matron/School of Nursing records including registers of nurse education and service, 1902-1938; Nursing Staff Registers, 1947-1971;

Patient records including Registers of Births, 1914-1915, 1920-1953; Register of Baptisms, 1920-1958; Maternity Registers, 1939-1953; Consultant's case books, 1931, 1934, 1936; Death Registers, 1930-1967; Admission and Discharge Register 1937-1938; Operation Registers, 1941-1952; Post Mortem Registers, 1930-1964, 1974; Mortuary Registers, 1949-1986;

Ephemera including photographs, ward signs, labels and plaques.

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 the North-West London Hospital, Kentish Town Road, London, 1878-1908, comprising: Annual Reports (printed), 1884-1904; Committee of Management minutes, 1878-1886, 1902-1908; Medical Committee minutes 1900-1903.

The archives of the Royal Free Hospital, London, 1828-2000, comprising:
Administrative Records, 1828-1974; including Court of Governors Annual Reports and minutes, 1828-1946; Royal Free Hospital Group Board of Governors minutes, 1948-1974 (this series also contains material relating to other Hospitals in the Group, particularly the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, 1948-1962, Hamstead General Hospital, 1948-1970 and the Liverpool Road and Lawn Road branches of the RFH); Committee of Management minutes 1828-1948; Weekly Board minutes 1846-1948, sub-committee minutes and reports 1899-1936; RFH Committee minutes, 1952-1971; House Committee minutes, 1928-1948; Building Sub-Committee minutes 1933-1940; Secretary and House Governor's out-letter books, 1920-1923, 1936-1948; Development Committee minutes 1945-1946; Patients' Services Committee minutes, 1971-1974; University College Hospital and RFH Joint Working Party minutes 1970-1972; Anniversary Committee minutes and papers, 1977-1979;

Financial records including Finance Committee (later titled Finance and General Purposes Committee and Finance and Policy Committee) minutes, 1948-1974;

Almoner's records including Report Book 1895-1913 and correspondence, 1901-1961; reports of Royal Free Hostels for Women and Girls, 1919-1960;

Records of Charitable Funds, 1902-1977; comprising Students' Bed Endowment Fund minutes 1904-1939; Dresden Assistance Fund minutes 1904-1953, accounts 1912-1948, records of payments to patients 1938-1961; Scottish Womens Hospitals Memorial Association Executive Committee minutes, 1921-1958, financial records 1940-1951; Ladies Association Executive Committee minutes 1902-1916, 1927-1929; Princess Marie Louise Guild of Work minutes, 1907-1911; Patients and Friends League Executive Committee minutes, 1933-1977; Auntie Ruby's Jig Stamp Club minutes and cash books, 1954-1962;

Medical Advisory Committee (formerly Medical Staff Advisory Committee) records, 1905-1984,including: Medical Committee minutes 1906-1977 and reports 1905-1950; Medical Executive Committee minutes and agendas, 1975-1990; Venereal Disease Sub-Committee reports, 1919-1940; Sub-Committee of Anaesthetists minutes 1952-1969; Sub-Committee of Surgeons (renamed Division of Surgery, 1970) minutes 1959-1982; Sub-Committee of Physicians minutes 1957-1971; Renal Unit Sub-Committee minutes 1965-1967; Division of Radiology minutes 1977-1984; Division of Medicine minutes 1971-1984; Control of Infection Sub-Committee minutes 1976-1985; Division of Psychiatry minutes 1980-1986; Division of Oncology minutes 1985-1988; Surgical Specialty Group minutes relating to the disciplines of Opthalmology, Ear Nose and Throat, Plastic, Oral and Dental, Accident and Emergency and Othopaedic surgery, 1988-1990;

Nursing records including Register of Nurses, 1868-1937; Matron's Reports to Weekly Board, 1899-1905, 1930-1948; Matron's Register of Probationers, 1901-1933; Nurses log book, containing record of work, training and examinations, 1902-1920; records of Probationer and Student Nurse Examination results 1925-1988; Sisters' record books, 1955-1952; register of Pupil Midwives, 1929-1933; Staff Nurses and Staff Midwives record books, 1928-1954; Nurses' Ward Reports, 1950-1956; Register of Affiliated Nurses, 1938-1953; General Nursing Council Index of Student Nurses, 1947-1953; photographs of Student Nurses, 1947-1970; Nurses Education Committee minutes and papers, 1949-1959; School of Nursing Academic Board minutes, 1972-1983; records of the RFH Nurses League, 1910-2000;

Patient records including Case Notes 1890-1944; microfilms of patient records, 1974-1980, subdivided into Transplants, Miscellaneous, Deaths, DIC (Differential Interference Contrast) films; Post Mortem Examination Reports, 1907-1914, 1928-1973; Cause of Death Registers, 1950-1966; index of patients of the Marlborough Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine (formerly the Marlborough Clinic), 1917-1974; Electro-cardiograph (ECG) Registers, 1968-1975; Dischage and Death registers, 1981-1989; Ward Admission Registers, 1974-1975, 1983-1985; RFH Lawn Road (or North Western) Branch: In-patient Registers, 1965-1972;

Press cuttings relating to the Royal Free Hospital, 1934-1946, 1974-1998, including collection of cuttings and articles relating to the outbreak of 'Royal Free Hospital Disease', 1955, one of the earliest documented outbreaks of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome;

Photographs of the RFH, c. 1880-2002, particularly construction of the 'new' Royal Free in Hampstead, 1970-1974;

Ephemera relating to the history of the RFH, c1828-2002, including papers and artifacts relating to benefactors, hospital events and anniversaries, particularly 100th and 150th anniversaries of the foundation.

Records of the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital including administrative records, nursing, finance, legal and estates records and printed material. The collection reflects the random survival of records from the hospital, the vast majority of records appear to have been destroyed.

Any surviving patient records are held at the RNTNE.

Records of the London School of Medicine for Women and related collections including the official corporate records of the London School of Medicine for Women (later the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine), from its foundation in 1874 to its merger with University College London In 1998.

It also contains a number of smaller collections relating to individuals associated with the London School of Medicine for Women, women's entry into the medical profession in Britain, and early women's medical training in India. These are:

Louisa Aldrich-Blake

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Sophia Jex-Blake

Countess of Dufferin Fund

Administrative records are open for public inspection. Student files have a general closure period of 100 years from date of birth.

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 the Royal Free Hospital Medical School (RFHSM) (formerly the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW) and the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women, 1874-1998, comprising:

Administrative records, 1874-1998: Annual Reports (printed), 1874-1997; Governing Body minutes 1875-1898; Executive Council minutes 1874-1898; Members of the School minutes 1898-1998, register of Vice Presidents and Members, 1898-1953; Council minutes 1898-1998; Joint meeting between Council and Royal Free Hospital Weekly Board minutes 1928-1943; School Committee [renamed Education Committee in 1930] minutes 1898-1998; Secretary's letter books 1897-1908; volume of letters relating to the foundation and early history of the School and medical education for women, including two letters by Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1874-1882; Agenda Books for College Committees, 1933-1985; Attendance Books for College Committees, 1942-1998; minutes and reports of temporary and standing sub-committees of Council and School/Education Committee, 1902-1958; Heads of Department meeting minutes 1966-1998; Pathology Unit Joint Committee minutes 1931-1948; Joint Garden Committee (with University of London School of Pharmacy) minutes 1955-1966; Animal House Committee minutes 1933-1975; Interdepartmental Workshop Sub-Committee minutes 1951-1978; General Staff Meeting minutes 1925-1939.

Financial records including minutes of meetings minutes of meetings of the four original Trustees of the School, A T Norton, Dr King Chambers, Isabel Thorne and Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, 1874-1875; selection of audited accounts, 1875-1900; Finance Committee minutes 1910-1978; Gift Books, 1925, 1945-1957.

Student Records: Prospectus (printed) 1874-1998; Register of Students, 1874-1927; Register of Qualified Students, 1877-1951; Register of Clinical Students, 1877-1948; Register of recipients of the Dr Edith Peachey Phipson Postgraduate Scholarship, 1912-1948; Registers of results of school examinations, 1874-1916; Registers of results of professional examinations, 1890-1920; student files 1874-1949 (records for 1874-1891 are incomplete), containing copy of application form, some files also contain attendance and examination records, correspondence and additional biographical information; Students' Council minutes 1905-1914; Students' Union minutes 1914-1970; Students' Union Committee minutes 1914-1971; Students Union Finance Committee minutes 1917-1959; copies of School/Hospital Magazine 1895-1974; Club and Society records, 1941-1961, including Languages Society, 1941-1942, Natural History Society, 1956-1960, Netball Club 1956-1960, Tennis Club 1956-1960, Table-tennis Club 1950-1961 and Lacrosse Club 1952-1959; Students' Aid Fund papers 1942-1970; Sports Ground Advisory Committee minutes and reports, 1926-1929; Old Students' Association financial records including Annual Accounts and Balance Sheets, 1930-1965.

Library records including Library Sub-Committee minutes 1894-1979; account books 1932-1983; acquisition lists 1901-1932; copy of Library Rules [c1894].

Legal and Estates papers including Memorandum and Articles of Association of the School of Medicine, 1898, with related correspondence, 1918-1939, copies of Constitution of the School, 1878, 1890, 1908, with related correspondence, 1926-1931; petitions, drafts and final versions of Charter and Statutes, 1938, and revisions, 1947, 1961), with related correspondence, 1925-1976 and copies of the University of London Act and Statutes, 1959, 1978; Agreements made between the Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine, 1877, 1883, 1887, 1893, 1898, 1904, 1911, and 1931, with related correspondence, 1892-1936; Correspondence relating to the attempt by the School to purchase the freehold of the land of the School buildings from Foundling Estates, 1925-1927; correspondence relating to the purchase of 72-84 Tavistock Place, and to the construction of an extension to the School, 1938-1953; inventory of fixtures etc at the Pavilion (30 Henrietta St), 1874; inventory and insurance valuation of furniture and effects at the School, 1941.

Correspondence and papers on School Centenary celebrations, 1973-1975.

Photographs of school buildings, staff and students, 1874-1998.

Ephemera, including photographs, papers, medals, prizes and biographical information relating to former staff and students of the School, 1874-1998, mainly donated by alumni and their families or collected by the Honorary Archivists.

Publications and press cuttings on the history of medical education for women, 1869-2001.

Records of the Hospital Management Committee, Edmonton Group (No.3) (North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board) including Committee Minutes (1948 - 1950, 1959 - 1963), Indexes to Committee Minutes not currently deposited (1952? - 1953) and Reports submitted to the Committee by North Middlesex Hospital, St. David's Hospital and Edmonton Chest Clinic, and from committees and sub-committees (1953 - 1955, 1958 - 1959).

Records of the Hospital Management Committee, Enfield Group (North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board) including Committee Minutes (1948 - 1949, 1951 - 1968, 1970, 1973 - 1974), Sub-committee Reports (1951 - 1964) and North Middlesex Sub-group Committee Minutes (1973).

Records of Fulham Maternity Hospital (1937 - 1968) including registers of births and deliveries.

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 Thames Regional Health Authority and predecessors, 1944-1995. This collection includes minutes, agendas and papers of the Health Authority/Health Board and various committees including the Nurse Training Committee; Hospital Management Committee; University Liaison Committee; Dental Committee; Nursing and Midwifery Committee; Optical Committee; Manpower Committee; Appointments Advisory Committee; District Pharmaceutical Managers; Senior Registrar's Joint Advisory Committee; Chief Nursing Officers Group.

Also press cuttings, regional circulars, financial accounts; photographs and reports.

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.

Records of the South East Thames Regional Health Authority, 1947-1995. This collection includes minutes, agendas and papers of the meetings of various Committees, including the Regional Health Authority, the Regional Health Authority Chairman, the Regional Hospital Board Finance Committee; Area Nurse Training Committee; Regional Team of Officers; Clinical Consultative Committee; Nursing Sub-Committee; Regional Medical Advisory Committee; Treasurer's Group; Cancer Committee; Corporate Advisory Team; Regional Management Team; Regional and Chief Nursing Officers; Legal Action Working Party; Regional Planning Group; Regional Programming Group; Capital Investment Group; Building Committee; Capital Executive Group; and Sub-Committees for various specialities including cardiology, dermatology, general practice, dental surgery, radiology, ophthalmology and so on.

Also annual statistical returns; financial accounts; maps and plans; papers of the Kent County Council Public Assistance Department; papers relating to buildings and maintenance; papers of study groups; papers relating to public health and other administrative papers.

Records of the South Thames Regional Health Authority and predecessors, 1947-1992. This collection consists of minutes and papers of various committees including: Mental Health Committee; Finance and General Purposes Committee; Regional Management Team; Regional Medical Advisory Committee; Advisory Appointments Committee; Regional Manpower Committee; Regional Research Committee; Regional Pharmaceutical Committees; Regional Capital Planning Team; London Ambulance Committee.

Also papers relating to various aspects of management of health services including regional strategic planning; reports; correspondence; copies of The Hospitals Year Book and directories of Hospital and Specialist Services; statistical booklets; papers regarding disaster management and major incidents; papers regarding staffing and personnel management; papers relating to building maintenance; and financial accounts.

Records of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, 1948-1949. This collection comprises the circulars to the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board Hospital Management Committees.

Records of William J. Piggott including photographs and printed poems collected by Will and Doris McNulty.

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 Fulham Infirmary including visitors' Reports.

Records of Jews' Hospital, consisting of minutes.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

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.

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

Records of the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund. The archive comprises: minutes and meetings papers of the Council, annual general meetings and various committees, 1872-1984 (Mss 30585, 30587-94); annual reports and accounts, 1873-1994 (Ms 30586); other financial records, 1934/5 (Ms 30595); correspondence and papers, including papers concerning bequests, 1871-ca 1989 (Ms 30596-609, 616); posters (Ms 30610); and photographs with associated papers, 1959-95 (Ms 30611-15).

Records of the Royal Scottish Corporation, comprising copy charters, byelaws and grant of arms (Ms 35760); minutes and related papers 1831-1834, 1877-1990 (Ms 35761-4); annual reports and accounts and other financial records 1935-2002 (Ms 35765-72); correspondence 1936-1993 (Ms 35773-80); seal register 1935-1992 (Ms 35781); papers re subscribers and legacies 1894-1969 (Ms 35782-5); papers re festival dinners 1820, 1906-1998 (Ms 35786-90); papers re St Andrews Soldiers' Home 1914-72 and St Andrews Scottish Soldiers' Club Fund 1980 (Ms 35791); correspondence re the London Scottish Regiment War Memorial Fund 1957-62 (Ms 35792); minutes, financial papers and register of pension payments of the Kinloch Bequest 1877-1992 (Ms 35793-801); minutes, financial records and correspondence of the Freer Trust 1915-62 (Ms 35802-8); correspondence relating to the hall, property and insurances 1864-1988 (Ms 35809-10); and press cuttings and miscellaneous items 1829-1995 (Ms 35811-2).

Please note that access to some financial records less than 30 years old is restricted. Access to records less than 50 years old which contain personal information is also restricted. 24 hours notice is required for access to all the records.

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

Records of Saint Katharine by the Tower Hospital, later known as the Royal College of Saint Katharine and the Royal Foundation of Saint Katharine. Records include charters and licences; rules and regulations; legal papers; minutes; correspondence and letter books; annual reports; financial accounts; registers of baptism, marriage and burial; banns books; Vestry minutes; papers regarding the manor of the hospital; papers regarding poor relief; papers of the Commissary Court of the Royal Peculiar including marriage allegations; papers regarding estates and properties including title deeds and surveys; maps and plans.

This catalogue also includes records deposited in the Library from the Valuation and Rates Department of the Corporation of the City of London in 1920. These volumes relate to rate assessments and poor law administration of the Precinct and probably reached the Corporation via the neighbouring parish of St Botolph Aldgate, to which the inhabitants of the Precinct would naturally have turned in 1825. Later Precinct books are catalogued within the archive of St Botolph Aldgate.

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.

London County Council register of tramway track lengths, recording description and lengths of route, street length, track length and remarks, such as "conversion to trolleybus", "abandoned" and so on, [1912-1952], with enclosures: photocopy of map of tramways in the London County Council area, revised to 1931; and diagrams of track lengths in Leyton and Hammersmith.

Records of Staines Local Board of Health, 1883-1929, comprising minute books, notice of bye-laws relating to Staines Commons and petition to Parliament for exclusion from Coal and Wine Duties Bill.

Records of Staines Urban District Council, 1894-1946, including minute books of various Committees including the Highways Committee and the Cemetery Committee; copies of agreements; reports and inquiries; financial accounts and town planning schemes including plans.

Records of Staines Rural District Council, 1894-1934, including Council minute books; Committee minute books; Parochial Committee minute books; reports; correspondence; housing scheme plans and town planning meetings.

Records of parishes in Staines, 1803-1953, including poor rate books; papers relating to tithes; papers relating to maintenance of roads, including plans; minute books of various Committees; and bills for maintenance work done.

Records of other bodies, 1828-1930, including the Commissioners of Staines Bridge; Staines Poor Law Union; Staines Joint Hospital District; Sunbury Hall Company Limited and Staines School Board.

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.

Papers of Doctor Norah Schuster, [1930]-1983, comprising copies of her published articles on the Royal Chest Hospital, its founder Doctor Isaac Buxton and the Western General Dispensary at Saint Marylebone; drafts and notes for her publications, including notes for an unpublished history of the Royal Chest Hospital; research papers relating to Doctor Isaac Buxton, and illustrations for the life of Doctor Isaac Buxton and the history of the Western General Dispensary.

Papers of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital Staff Action Committee, 1969-1988, including Committee minutes; general correspondence; proposals for the future of the Hospital; correspondence with peers and Members of Parliament; papers concerning dealings with health and local authorities; letters of support; papers regarding publicity; pamphlets and publications.

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

Copy letter from the Matron of Friern Hospital, Mrs A M Blythe, 1941, describing the reception of mothers and babies from the City of London Maternity Hospital after that hospital was severely damaged by bombing, and the treatment and experiences of air raid casualties.

Pharmacopoeia of Guy's and Saint Thomas Hospitals inscribed J Langford Moore, and pharmacopoeia of the North Middlesex Hospital, Middlesex County Council, inscribed Jas Coutts.

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 Edmonton Poor Law Union, 1837-1940, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; superannuation registers; registers of persons maintained in institutions and homes; registers of children boarded out; correspondence with the Ministry of Health; financial accounts; reports regarding the establishment of the North Middlesex County Hospital Radium Department; Vaccination Officer's registers; Edmonton Board of Guardians year books; Edmonton Urban District Council Year Books; registers of Edmonton House Workhouse and Enfield House; and matrices of seals of the Edmonton Board of Guardians.

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).

Papers of London Almshouses and Rogers' Almshouses, 1615-1991, including rules and regulations, financial accounts, reports, Committee of Management minute books, petitions for admission, Trustees minute books, warden's report books, and various other administrative papers.

Papers of various London Hospitals, 1695-1983, including dockets of hospital leases and uses of the Hospital Seal for the Royal Hospitals; financial accounts and case books for the Denton Hospital (also known as the Port of London Sanitary Hospital) and historical information for the Bethlem Royal Hospital, Maudsley Hospital and St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill. Please note that medical records are subject to a 100 year closure from the date of the last entry.