Records of Hospital Committees of Great Ormond Street Hospital, 1852-2000, comprising: GOS/1, Annual Reports of the Committee of Management and Board of Management, 1852-1947; GOS/1/2 Minutes of the Committee of Management and Board of Management, 1850-1948 (includes the Provisional Committee Minutes Book, 1850-1852, text of Charles Dickens' 1855 speech on behalf of the Hospital, and the award of Honorary Governorship to him in 1858, a letter from Dr Jenner at Osbourne House in 1862, and a letter from Dr Jenner on gift of toys by the Queen in 1876.
GOS/1/3, Minutes of Board of Governors’ Meetings, 1869-1982; GOS/1/3/4- 25, Board of Governors Minute Books,1948-1982; GOS/1/4 Administrative and Executive Committee Minutes, 1938-1952; GOS/1/5/1-19, House Committee Minutes 1867-1938; GOS/1/5/20-44, House Committee papers, 1892-1921; GOS/1/6/1-57 Medical Committee Minutes, 1852-1971; Joint Medical Executive Committee, 1972 -1982.
GOS/1 /6/58, Transitional Executive Committee Minute Book, 1968-1969; GOS/1/6/59- 73, Executive Medical Committee Minute Book, 1971-1982; GOS/1/6/74-92 Medical Committee Papers, 1894-1936.
GOS/1/6/2, Comprising the Minute Books of the Divisional Subsidiaries of the Medical Executive Committee, known as the Cogwheel System, 1971-1990, including the Division of Physicians, the Division of Surgeons, the Division of Radiologists, the Division of Anaesthetists, and the Division of Pathologists.
GOS/1/7 Minute Books of the Joint Committee(on Medical Appointments), known after 1950 as the Medical Appointments Committee, 1894-1965; GOS/1/8 Finance Committee Minutes, 1858-1982; GOS/1/9 Building Committee Minutes, 1876-1981, Building Sub-Committee Minutes; GOS/1/10 Nursing Committee Minutes, 1922-1981; GOS/1/11 Policy and Development Committee Minutes, 1964-1977; GOS/1/12 Research Committee Minutes, 1946-1977; GOS/1/13 Medical Ethics Committee Minutes (including registers of cases for members' consideration), 1969-1984; GOS/1/14 General Medical Staff Committee Minutes,1971-1983; GOS/1/15 Establishment Committee Minutes, Establishment Committee Minute Book, 1948-1951.
GOS/1/16 Junior Staff Committee Minutes, 1930-1933; GOS/1/16/2 Junior Staff Training Committee Minute Book, 1972-1977; GOS/1/17 Doctors' Clinical Club Minutes (including non Great Ormond Street staff), 1875-1896 (includes photographs of annual excursions); GOS/1/18, Private Nursing Committee Minutes, 1917; GOS/1/19 Private Wards Administrative Committee Minutes, 1938-1947; GOS/1/20 Advisory Committee on Nursing Education Minutes,1970-1976; GOS/1/21 Cross-Infection Sub-Committee and Group Infection Committee Minutes, 1964-71982; GOS/1 /22 Organ Transplant Sub-Committee Minutes, 1964; GOS/1/23 Tumour Committee Minutes, 1965-1969.
GOS/1 /24 In-Patients After-Care Trust Minutes, 1913-1938; GOS/1/25 Social Services Committee Minutes,1949-1968; GOS/1 /26 Almoner’s Committee Minutes, 1918-1949; GOS/1/27 Committee of Chairmen Minutes, 1951-1952; GOS/1/28 Pensions Committee Minutes,1931-1933; GOS/1 /28/2 Pensions Committee Standing Orders, 1931-1945; GOS/1/28/3 Pensions Sub-Committee Minute Book, 1928-1931; GOS/1/29, Investment Sub-Committee Minutes,1958; GOS/1/30 Medical Workshop Committee Minutes, 1959-1968; GOS/1 /31 Catering Committee Minutes, 1945-1967;
GOS/1/32 Laundry Committee Minutes, 1952.
GOS/1 /33 Managing Committee Minutes, 1885; GOS/1/34 Reception Committee Minutes for Opening of New (South) Wing, 1892-1893; GOS/1 /35 Imperial Coronation Bazaar Committee Minutes,1902; GOS/1/36 Sub-Committee for the Management of Festival Dinners Minutes, 1857-1863; GOS/1/37 Appeal Committee Minutes, 1908-1909; GOS/1/38 Appeals Council Minutes, 1935-1941; GOS/1 /39 Peter Pan Sub-Committee Minutes,1954-1966; GOS/1 /40 Special Appeal Committee Minutes, 1930-1937; GOS/1/41 Centenary Sub-Committee Minutes, 1948-1952.
GOS/1/42 Local Government Committees on Hospital Reconstruction: GOS/1/42/1Reconstruction Fund, Borough of Holborn Committee Minute Book, 1933-1934; GOS/1/42/2 Reconstruction Fund; Borough of St Pancras Committee Minute Book, 1931-1933; GOS/1/43 Co-ordination Committee Minutes, 1939-1945; GOS/1/44, Law and Publicity Committee Minutes, 1931-1939.
GOS/1/45 Minutes of the London School of Paediatrics, 1941-1945; GOS/1 /46, League of Remembrance Minutes, 1946-1982; GOS/1/47 Institute of Child Health Staff Case Conference Minutes, 1947-1962; GOS/1/47/2; ICH Case Conference papers and GOS/ICH Training prospectus, c 1980-1990s. (These items came from Professor Aynsley-Green’s office.)
GOS/1/48 Sub-Committee on Nursing, Domestic Services, and Supplies Minutes, 1961-1963; GOS/1/49 Minutes of the Select Committee on Metropolitan Hospitals; GOS/1/49/1 Minute Book of the Select Committee on Metropolitan Hospitals, 1889; GOS/1/50 Kampala Sub-Committee (also known as Assistance to Hospitals in Uganda) Minutes, 1957-1969; GOS/1/51/1-4 Agenda Books for major Hospital Committees, 1908- 1935; GOS/1/51/5 Register of Committee Members, 1947-1956.
GOS/1/51/6 File, miscellaneous Committee resolutions, memoranda, membership lists and correspondence, 1903-1942; GOS/1/51/7 Volume containing signatures of Board of Management and Medical Committee members, circa 1940; GOS/1/52 GOSH Health Records Committee Minutes and Reports 1998-2000.
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