Records of the City of London Maternity Hospital, including Governors and Management Committee minutes, 1750-1948; Court of Governors minutes, 1883-1948; Finance Committee minutes, 1905-1948; lists of governors and annual reports, 1764-1948; reports concerning Brockett Hall Emergency Maternity Hospital, 1939-1940; new hospital charter and related papers, 1918-1935; Acts of Parliament concerning the hospital, 1773-1869; architects plans for alterations and modernisation, 1937; admissions registers, 1750-1948; registers of baptisms, 1813-1978; Matrons' case books, 1921-1949; out-patients admission registers, 1872-1953; district case books, 1913-1942; prospectus for the midwifery training school, 196-; salaries and wages books, 1912-1940; register of wills and legacies, 1754-1965; playbill for Sir Richard Steele's The Conscious Lovers to be performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, for the benefit of the Hospital, 17 Dec 1776; programme of concert at Mansion House arranged by the Ladies' Association in aid of the City of London Lying-in Hospital on 23 June 1914; includes photographs of exterior of hospital, interior of ward and chapel; issues of Onward, journal of the City of London Maternity Hospital, 1924-1944; history of the hospital, 1922 and guide for expectant mothers, [1950s].
Sem títuloRecords of the Queen Adelaide Fund, including declarations of trust, 1839-1870; letter from Dr J Connolly calling for the expansion of the fund, 1840; reports of the Committee for Increasing the Queen Adelaide Fund, 1840; funeral sermon for Colonel James Clitherow, 1841; regulations for management of the fund, 1842; list of subscribers, 1845; financial accounts, 1840-1973; recommendation books (listing patients put forward for grants), 1842-1933; photograph of a portrait of Colonel James Clitherow, 1960. Also book of recommendation for the London (Surrey) Benevolent Fund, 1892-1899.
Sem títuloRecords 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.
Sem títuloRecords of the Royal Eye Hospital, including Committee of Management minutes, 1879-1890; Medical Committee minutes, 1893-1960; School Sub-Committee minutes, 1906-1912; Social Committee minutes, 1936-1956; annual reports, 1858-1948; Articles of Association, 1930-1931; rules and bye-laws, 1930-1937; papers relating to the Richard Minter Mount legacy, 1875-1902; papers relating to the Royal patronage of the Hospital, 1901-1910; papers, reports and correspondence relating to proposed amalgamation with King's College Hospital, 1946-1948; legal papers including agreements and covenants, 1875-1947. Patient records including admission and discharge registers, 1861-1972; in-patients case books, 1893-1958; diagnostic index, 1936-1949; illustrated brochure for nurses wishing to train for the Diploma of the Ophthalmic Nursing Board at the Royal Eye Hospital, [1957]; registers of nursing staff, 1956-1963; research fund petty cash book, 1944-1949; copies of The Royal Eye Hospital 1857-1957 by Arnold Sorsby; papers relating to special events, 1906-1957; papers collected by Arnold Sorsby relating to the life of John Zachariah Laurence, founder of the South London Ophthalmic Hospital; and photographs and prints of the Hospital buildings, staff, patients and special events, 1912 - 1980, including surgeons Carsten Holthouse, Malcolm MacDonald McHardy and Thomas Wilfred Letchworth, and Professor Arnold Sorsby.
Sem títuloRecords of the South Western Hospital, including House Committee minutes, 1948-1959; Catering Sub-Committee minutes, 1950-1962; architect's drawings of Stockwell Fever Hospital, 1869; architect's drawings of Stockwell Smallpox Hospital, 1869; admission and discharge registers for Stockwell Smallpox Hospital, 1871-1876; mortuary register, 1947-1963; register of staff, [1889]-1904 and photographs of the Geriatric Day Unit, 1973-1990.
Sem títuloRecords 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.
Sem títuloRecords of the Edgware General Hospital, including annual reports, 1928-1974; handbooks, 1965-1968; papers relating to open days, 1950-1960; papers and photographs concerning opening of new extensions at Redhill County Hospital, 1938; admission and discharge registers, 1941-1974; registers of deaths, 1928-1956; registers of births, 1928-1940; registers of confinements, 1951-1958; maternity case books, 1945-1958; casualty books, 1945-1957 and ambulance books, 1951-1956.
Sem títuloRecords of Hendon Group Hospital Management Committee, including Management Committee and Standing Committee signed minutes, 1948-1974; Management Committee minutes and papers, 1948-1974; Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes and papers, 1948-1967; Staff and Establishment Committee minutes and papers, 1948-1967; Finance and Staff Committee minutes and papers, 1967-1974; Planning Committee minutes and papers, 1949-1955; Works and Building Committee and Planning and General Purposes Committee minutes and papers, 1956-1974; Visiting Committees and Hospital Committees minutes, 1949-1970; Joint Consultative Committees minutes and papers, 1948-1960; meeting attendance registers, 1948-1974; standing orders, 1948-1969; annual reports, 1949-1970; papers from annual open meetings including Chairman's reports, 1953-1962; papers regarding Hospital redevelopment, 1961-1968; papers relating to opening ceremonies, 1952-1971; Hendon Group HMC handbook giving information on hospital and other medical and social services available in area, including a history of Edgware General Hospital and photographs of group hospitals, 1958; staff handbooks, 1966-[1973] and publication Colindale Hospital, 1898-1948: An unauthorised history censored from the memories and musings of many people, compiled by the Rev R W Townsend, AKCL, Chaplain and Rural Dean of Hendon, 1948.
Sem títuloRecords of the Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, 1875-1966, and Saint Mary Abbots Hospital, 1872-1993. Papers include committee minutes, reports, patient registers, correspondence, inventories, staff records and histories.
Sem títuloRecords of Horton Hospital, including Medical Superintendent report books, 1900-1917; Horton Hospital Management Committee (later Management Team) minutes, 1948-1985; Hospital Committees' and Sub-Committees' minutes, 1948-1984; admission, discharge and creed registers, 1907-1984; general registers and indexes of patients, 1902-1971; post mortem registers, 1902-1951; death registers, 1931-1971; operation registers, 1944-1964; patient case books, 1902-1937; Chest unit case files, 1940-1945; Chest Unit admission book, 1944-1947; staff records, 1902-1939; financial records, 1927-1965; maps of the hospital site, 196-; papers of research projects, 1978-1983; glass negatives of patients, 20th century and draft manuscript copy of J.R.Lord's Story of the Horton (County of London) War Hospital, 1920.
Sem títuloRecords of Saint John's Hospital, Battersea, 1872-1987, including medical advisory committee minutes, reports, agreements, plans, admission and discharge registers, creed rgisters, registers of births, deaths, operations, case books, dental surgeon's registers, physiotherapy registers, tuberculosis notifications, mental health admissions, register of mechanical restraints, registers of nurses and domestic staf, registers of staff leaving, pupil nurses, and photographs of the hospital and special occasions.
Sem títuloThe records of the Maternity Nursing Association, 1908-1949, comprising council and committee minutes (4 volumes), annual reports (9 volumes), wages book (1 volume), analysis of expenditure (1 volume) and a book of newspaper cuttings and copies of leaflets concerning the association.
Sem títuloRecords of the Royal Chest Hospital, 1825-1940, including minutes, annual reports, registers of sisters, nurses and servants, regulations for staff, registers of subscribers and donors, visitors books and publications.
Sem títuloRecords of the Royal Northern Hospital, 1885-1991, including minutes, annual reports, secretary's reports, register of seals and deeds, constitution and regulations; registers of road traffic accidents, births, deaths, operations, and maternity cases, case papers; matron's reports, registers of nurses and pupils, salaries and wages, correspondence, journals; ledgers and accounts; Plans of the Whittington Hospital; Chaplain's reports; Photographs; Ladies Association papers; Related documentation including histories, programmes, newspaper cuttings and publications.
Sem títuloRecords of the South Middlesex Hospital, including Borough of Richmond (Surrey) and Heston and Isleworth Urban District Joint Isolation Hospital Committee minutes, agendas and reports, 1902-1935; South Middlesex and Richmond Joint Hospital Board annual reports and statements of accounts, 1936-1948; Rules and regulations, 1912-1943; Agreements, 1899-1925. Dockwell Isolation Hospital patient records, 1899-1928; South Middlesex Hospital Emergency Medical Service Hospital patient records, 1939-1945; Infectious Diseases Wards records, 1962-1982. Matron's wages books, 1905-1935; Certificates of training as a fever nurse, 1902-1930; Probationer nurses' articles of agreement, 1900-1934; Recruitment leaflet, [1940].
Sem títuloRecords of the South West Middlesex Hospital Management Committee including Hospital management committee minutes, 1951-1974; publications, 1949-1962; rules and standing orders, 1962; information book, 1962; minutes and papers of the Hounslow Health District Management Team, 1974-1982; minutes and papers of the Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Health Authority, 1991-1996; minutes and papers of the King Edward Memorial Hospital, 1951; minutes and papers of the Hounslow and Spelthorne Health Authority District Hospital Medical Committee, 1974-1986; minutes and papers of the South West Middlesex local committee of the National Hospital Service Reserve, 1950-1959; register of premises other than hospital premises, 1956-1967 and photographs of hospitals within the group, particularly the West Middlesex Hospital, the South Middlesex Hospital, the King Edward Memorial Hospital, Ealing, and the Perivale Maternity Hospital, 1952-1964.
Sem títuloRecords of Acton Hospital, 1895-1973, comprising minutes of various committees including Council and Management Committee minutes; the House, Finance and General Purposes Committee; the Ladies Committee; the Honorary Medical Staff; the Medical Advisory Committee and the Unit Staff Committee.
Sem títuloRecords of Hither Green Hospital, 1897-1976, including case notes, registers of admission and discharge, creed, post-mortems, operations, and casualties; records of staff service and conduct and Chaplain's records.
Sem títuloRecords of Saint Alfege's Hospital including Medical Staff Committee minutes, 1958-1964, a report on the use and condition of the buildings with particular reference to demolition and reconstruction, by the Regional Architect for the Greenwich and Deptford Hospital Management Committee, 1957; operations registers, 1938-1939 and nurses' registers, 1913-1961.
Sem títuloRecords of the Greenwich and Bexley Area Health Authority comprising Area Health Authority minutes, 1973-1982; Area Team of Officers minutes, 1974-1981.
Sem títuloRecords of the Woolwich Group Hospital Management Committee, including Hospital Management Committee minutes, 1948-1974; Establishment Committee minutes, 1948-1969; Finance Sub-Committee minutes, 1948-1974; General Purposes Sub-Committee minutes, 1948-1973; Group Medical Advisory Committee minutes, 1948-1973; Memorial Hospital Medical Advisory Committee minutes, 1948-1974; the Division of General Practice and Community Medicine minutes, 1972-1973; Nursing Sub-Committee minutes, 1949-1969; Nursing and Midwifery Education Committee minutes, 1969-1974; Joint Staff Consultative Committee minutes, 1967-1969; Supplies Sub-Committee minutes, 1949-1969; reports, 1969-1974 and newspaper cuttings, 1957-1974.
Sem títuloRecords of the Lambeth Hospital Management Group, 1948-1964, comprising minutes of the Catering, Establishment, Finance, Supplies, General Purposes, Management and Maternity Committees, and a register of seals.
Sem títuloRecords of the Wandsworth Hospital Management Committee comprising minutes of the Building, Catering, Finance, Group Medical, Management Group, Nursing Advisory, Staff, Supplies and Visiting Committees, and staff cards.
Sem títuloRecords of the Moorfields Eye Hospital and predecessor hospitals, 1804-1993, including the Children's Ophalmic Convalescent Home, the Central London Opthalmic Hospital, the Royal London Opthalmic Hospital and the Royal Westminster Opthalmic Hospital.
Sem títuloRecords of the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital comprising annual reports, 1938-1942.
Sem títuloRecords of the Royal Westminster Opthalmic Hospital, 1869-1956, including minutes of the Ladies Committee, Management Committee and Medical Committee; administrative papers relating to engineering and building; financial records; press cuttings and histories of High Holborn.
Sem títuloRecords 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.
Sem títuloRecords of Winifred House Invalid Children's Nursing Home comprising Admission and Discharge register, 1906-1923; records of nursing staff, 1939-1972 and financial records consisting of receipts and payments, weekly accounts, staff accounts, patient accounts and register of donors and subscribers, 1886-1958.
Sem títuloRecords of Saint Luke's Hospital, Chelsea, comprising registers of probationer nurses and certificates, rosettes and medals from the London Garden Society Awards.
Sem títuloRecords of the London Homoeopathic Convalescent Home, 1899-1927, which comprise annual reports 1889-1900 and 1906-1927.
Sem títuloRecords of hospitals in, or affiliated to, the Saint George's Hospital Group, comprising Atkinson Morley Hospital, Bolingbroke Hospital, Grove Hospital, Saint George's Hospital and Victoria Hospital for Children. Includes patients' records, staff records, and Board of Governors minutes.
Administrative, financial and other records remain uncatalogued as of February 2012. Please see staff for further details.
Sem títuloRecords of Saint George's Hospital including admission and discharge registers, fever ward admission books, high dependency unit admission books, registers of maternity patients, death registers, deaths under anaesthetic registers, post mortem and case books, post mortem examination books, case books, registers of anaesthetics and operations, operating theatre lists, porters accident books, casualty registers, registers of transfers from casualty, brandy book, book of patient sayings, registers of officers and servants, registers of nurses, registers of probationary nurses, registers of candidates for nursing posts, registers of nurses leaving the hospital, registers of sick leave and special leave, officers' signature books, lists of the number of operations carried out by surgeons, papers and correspondence relating to staff matters, staff certificates, staff reminiscences, staff handbooks and rules, baptism registers.
Administrative, financial and other records are uncatalogued as of February 2012, please see staff for further details.
Sem títuloRecords 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.
Sem títuloRecords of Central Middlesex Hospital, 1907-1951, including record cards and a programme of a royal visit to the hospital.
Sem títuloPapers of the Clare Hall Hospital, 1905-1929, including minutes of the meetings of the Board, Finance Committee, General Purposes and House Committee, Visiting Sub-committee and Farm Sub-committee; annual reports; finance reports; financial papers and papers relating to superannuation.
Sem títuloRecords 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.
Sem títuloRecords of Lambeth Poor Law Union, 1834-1930, including minutes of the Board of Guardians; minutes of the Finance Committee and the Ladies Committee; correspondence with Government departments; orders and rule of the Poor Law Commissioners; Board of Guardians handbook; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; detention orders; registers of lunatics; registers from the Princes Road Workhouse, the Renfrew Road Workhouse, the Brook Drive Infirmary and the Home for the Aged Poor, West Norwood; registers of wives of interned aliens, First World War; registers of emigrated children; apprenticeship indentures; registers of apprentices and servants; registers of children at the Norwood Schools; financial accounts; staff records and building plans for Norwood Schools and Lambeth Infirmary.
Sem títuloRecords of the London County Council, 1721-1983, including the Architect's Department, Chief Engineer's Department, Children's Department, Clerk's Department, Comptroller of the Council's Department, Education Officer's Department, Fire Brigade Department, Housing Department, Legal and Parliamentary Department, Lieutenancy of the County of London, Public Control Department, Public Health Department, Parks Department, Restaurant and Catering Department, Staff Benevolent Society, Supplies Department, Tramways Department, Valuation Department, Welfare Department and Works Department.
The type of records held include committee minutes and papers, administrative records, reports, plans and maps, photographs, log books, registers and samples of case files, examinations, application forms, licences, school report books, publicity material, pamphlets, leaflets and publications. The records deal with various aspects of London governance including the management of schools, hospitals, health centres and other insitutions; the overseeing and regulation of construction work, street improvements, sewers and drains, flood defences and bridges; tax assessments; the construction and maintenance of housing estates; the maintenance of parks and open spaces; the care of children, the elderly and the disabled; the monitoring of legal requirements; licensing and monitoring of establishments including lodging houses, theatres, cinemas, and slaughterhouses; licensing of vehicles and drivers; traffic congestion and transport issues; town planning; financial accounts, estimates and budgets and emergency measures during the First and Second World Wars.
Sem títuloPapers of the London County Council Architect's Department relating to Council Buildings: standard specifications, tenders and quotations, 1922-1940; materials, 1930-1937; air raid precautions at Council premises, 1937-1947; salvage of waste metals and other materials, 1925-1942; lists of Council premises damaged by enemy action, 1940-1945; papers relating to the construction of hospitals and other institutions, 1929-1947, including standard planning and points of construction, fire prevention arrangements and transfer of property under the National Health Service Act 1946; papers relating to the construction of museums, 1914-1938; papers relating to the construction of housing estates, 1898-1934; papers relating to the construction of schools, 1910-1939; papers of the Board of Education Departmental Committee on the Construction of School Buildings, 1925-1927; papers relating to the construction of playgrounds, 1911-1928; programmes of building work for the Children's Department, 1950-1960; standards for car parks, 1955-1959; papers of Housing Layout Committee, 1952-1958; papers of Architects' Housing Conferences, 1950-1959; development work on Housing type plans, 1951-1962; papers relating to homes for the elderly, 1934-1961; papers relating to halfway houses and hostels, 1952-1959; design of school furniture, 1949-1959; investigations leading to selection of the Hook, Hampshire, for site of new town, 1955-1959; papers relating to Basingstoke, 1952-1963; Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Committee on Official Architecture, 1913-1929; papers relating to work done by non-LCC architects and criticism of the official Architect, 1905-1920; papers relating to town development, including Bracknell, Corby, Hemel Hempstead, Letchworth, Welwyn and Hatfield, 1952-1964; papers relating to the development of the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank.
Sample files relating to individual premises, comprising subject and policy files retained when a large number of similar files were destroyed, to illustrate the construction and maintenance works carried out at typical LCC developments. Examples include housing estates, schools and colleges, a workhouse, a hospital, a historic building, bridges and County Hall.
Reports, including surveys by the Architect of properties transferred to the LCC, including hospitals, institutions, schools, children's homes, and ambulance stations, 1929-1930; surveys of general and special hospitals, 1934-1937; minutes and reports of Departmental Committee on Hospital Standards, 1930-1934; schedule of prices for repair to buildings, 1915-1919; register of construction works, 1892-1912.
Visitor's Books for historic building Prince Henry's Room, 17 Fleet Street, 1906-1925; publication The Architectural Work of the London County Council by WE Riley, Architect to the Council, 1909; plans of demolished or disused buildings including Clerkenwell Sessions House, India Office Store, Chandos Street Fire Station, Tooley Street Fire Station, Clapham Fire Station, Bayswater Fire Station and Dulwich Fire Station.
Sem títuloPlans from the London County Council Architect's Department Plan Room. The plans are for the varied buildings designed and constructed by the Architect's Department, predominantly housing estates but also schools, fire stations, hospitals, old people's homes, colleges, docks, shopping centres and hostels. There are also plans of the Royal Festival Hall.
Sem títuloRecords of the London County Council Architect's Department relating to Town Planning, including proposals prepared under the 1909 Town Planning Act, 1909-1938; papers regarding the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act, 1935-1937; proposals for Town Planning Schemes, 1927-1935; regulation of advertisements and illuminated signs, 1914-1939; preservation of trees, 1932-1939; papers regarding zoning, 1921-1936; coordination and development of transport, 1926-1932; arterial and classified roads, 1915-1935; papers and research data prepared for the Plan for Redevelopment of the County of London, 1940-1942; appeals against town planning decisions, 1949-1951; schemes for Croydon and Beckenham under the 1909 Town Planning Act, 1921-1923; papers regarding garden squares and enclosures, 1923-1945; Town Planning Information Bulletins, 1959-1965; papers regarding reviews of the County of London Development Plan, 1957-1964.
Papers, 1922-1956, regarding the formulation of town planning schemes, including consultation with crown lands, estate owners, borough councils and local authorities both in and outside of London. Subject and policy files relating to Green Belt proposals, 1926-1937, town planning schemes, 1924-1939 and correspondence of the Greater London Regional Planning Committee, 1933-1936. Objections, public enquiries and modifications to the County of London Development Plan, 1951-1962. Article 'Town Planning in relation to old and congested areas with special reference to London', by Arthur Crow, 1910; papers on Arterial Roads in London, 1914-1915; report on the travelling facilities to and from south east London, 1926; reports relating to post-war reconstruction, 1943-1949; 'Plan for Saint Pancras', prepared by the Saint Pancras Borough Council, 1949; reports of the Greater London Regional Planning Committee, 1929-1931. Registers of planning applications under the Town and Country Planning Act 1947-1951.
Maps of London, Middlesex, Kent and Hertfordshire, 1860-1940, showing sewers, drains, sites of Council buildings, locations of proposed developments, street name changes, road widening schemes and tree preservation, all stamped as 'superseded'. Plans including land use surveys, 1922-1957; maps and plans made to accompany town planning schemes, 1928-1941; age of buildings survey, 1870-1916; war damage surveys, 195-; objection maps, showing the site of buildings in the 1951 Development Plan about which objections were raised, 195-; maps showing the listed historical buildings in each borough, 1965 and Bermondsey reconstruction plans, 1937-1950.
Sem títuloRecords of the London County Council Chief Engineer's Department comprising annotated maps of London and Middlesex, 1894-1896, from the Public Health Section library.
Sem títuloRecords of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Improvements Committee, and also of the Bridges Committee (1889-1906) and the Corporate Property Committee (1889-1904) whose functions largely passed to the Improvements Committee on their closure.
Committee Clerk's general papers, 1883-1931, relating to a variety of subjects including the Land Transfer Act, 1897, leasehold redemption policies, auction of surplus land, tramways, arbitration proceedings, "London Street Improvements" pamphlet by Henry Clarke, Improvements Committee Chairman, 1892, LCC (Improvements) Bill 1897: minutes of evidence, speeches, and papers; LCC (Improvements) Bill 1900: minutes of evidence, speeches, and papers. Also papers relating to individual road improvements and widening schemes, and papers relating to the construction and maintenance of individual bridges, embankments and tunnels. Please consult the detailed catalogue for a full list.
Sem títuloRecords of the London County Council Education Officer's Department relating to teacher training, 1903-1976.
Subject and policy files on a variety of topics including the Departmental Committee on the Training of Teachers; relations between the Universities and Training Colleges; the Central Consultative Committee of Headmasters and Headmistresses; training of art teachers; training of teachers of the blind; training of teachers of building; training of teachers of the deaf; training of domestic economy teachers; training of teachers of educationally sub-normal children; physical training in LCC Training Colleges; arrangements during the Second World War; Emergency Training Colleges; Senior County Teachers' Scholarships; statistics; National Froebel Union (later Foundation); University of Cambridge Certificate of Education; grants regulations; supply and training of teachers for technical colleges; introduction of the three-year teacher training course.
Subject files relating to individual LCC Training Colleges and individual Training Colleges not maintained by the LCC, including papers on buildings, equipment, expansions, reorganisations and closures, staffing, establishment of courses, arrangements and evacuation during Second World War, transfer of colleges to University of London, correspondence, syllabi, pamphlets, prospectuses, college magazines, policies, grants and fees, inspections, Governor's meeting minutes, Students' Union meeting minutes, Staff-Student Consultative Committee minutes, Staff Meetings and Academic Board meeting minutes (please see catalogue for full list of the individual colleges).
Also sample sets of applicants' case-papers for the Loan Fund for Prospective Teachers; sample sets of personal files of Training College students; reports from Annual Conferences of Teachers; handbooks from the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project; sample certificates and student report and record books; National Froebel Union regulations, examination papers and reports of examiners; 'The Government of Maintained Training Colleges', LCC pamphlet (1953).
Sem títuloRecords of the London County Council Education Officer's Department relating to welfare services and children's care, 1888-1970.
Subject and policy files on a variety of topics including children's care work; report of Children's Care Organisers and Divisional Superintendents on Unemployment and Distress in the early stages of the First World War; London Juvenile Advisory Committee; employment of children and juveniles; cleansing of verminous children; dietary and clinical investigation into nutritional standard of Bethnal Green school children by the Rowett Research Institute (Carnegie Trust); provision of hot mid-day meals in schools; Children's Play Centres Fund; after-care of school leavers; children's care organisers; proposed integration of children's care service and school inquiry service; Association of Children's Care Organisers; Association of Social Workers; the Young People's Advisory Service Avondale Project; Children's Country Holiday Fund; Youth Employment Service; Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906; School Meals Service; Bateson Report on the employment of children as film actors, in theatrical work and in ballet; smoking and health; Child Guidance Clinic, Maudsley Hospital.
Minutes of the Children's Care Committees of individual LCC schools and minutes of Local Associations of Children's Care Committees. Registers of infringements and prosecutions regarding the employment of children under Education Act, 1921; Summons Books for infringements of school attendance requirements; minutes of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Children's Care Service.
Sem títuloRecords of the London County Council Fire Brigade Department, 1822-1965, including subject and policy files on general topics including correspondence on question whether horses can smell fire and locate scene of outbreaks; participation by Brigade in International Horse Shows; surprise inspections of stations by the Chief Officer; passing of information on fires to firms of fire assessors; the funerals of Sir Eyre Massey Shaw and Sir Lionel Wells; drills and competitions; Women's Fire Protection Force; emergency arrangements during the 1926 General Strike; pamphlet on National Fire Brigades Association; International Fire Exhibition, Paris; mutual arrangements between brigades for extinguishing fires; London Fire Brigade Questions and Answers Book; liaison with press; displays and demonstrations at exhibitions and events; London Fire Brigade Museum; reorganisation of the Brigade (1934); visits by officers to foreign fire brigades; the Royal Commission on Fire Brigades and Fire Prevention; Departmental Committee on Fire Brigade Services (Riverdale Committee); Fire Brigades Act, 1938; insurance companies' contributions towards the cost of the Brigade; Central Advisory Council for Fire Services; press cuttings; transfer of Fire Services from National Fire Service to local authorities after Second World War.
Subject and policy files regarding fires and special services, including papers on: fires aboard ships; fires on tramcars; fires in dance halls, factories, workshops, warehouses, Government and LCC buildings, hospitals, nursing homes, massage establishments, chimneys, hotels, clubs, lodging houses, restaurants, fried fish shops, places of public entertainment, houses, flats, tenements, schools, colleges, churches, church halls, University buildings, wharves, docks, gasworks, gas mains, departmental stores, shops and retail markets; fires involving explosives; static electricity as a cause of fire; reports on serious fires; legal right of Brigade to enter premises on fire; Society for the Protection of Life from Fire; special services including gas escapes, lift accidents, railway accidents and pumping operations during flooding; fires of doubtful origin or caused by arson and incendiaries; City fire inquests; lives lost at fires; electrical hazards at fires; organisation at large fires; oil fires; fires and panics; special reports on individual fires; fires involving celluloid; reports on fires by fire prevention officers; register of fires and other incidents attended by the Brigade Control Unit.
Subject and policy files regarding appliances and equipment including land steamers, horses and stabling, motor vehicles, motor pumps, Merryweather's pumps, escape vans and turntable ladders, electrical turntable ladders, foam tender, fireboats "Alpha", "Beta", "Gamma", "Massey Shaw" and "Raidwood", smoke helmets, respirators and breathing apparatus, chemical fire extinguishers, fire escapes, asbestos protective equipment, air foam. Also Stores Ledgers and registers of accidents to vehicles and appliances.
Subject and policy files relating to communications including street fire alarms, fire alarm telegraph systems, fire telephones, malicious false alarms, automatic fire alarms, radiotelephony, messages, Watch-room and Control Room procedures, teleprinters, radio installations, list of automatic fire alarms and fire telephones connected to each station.
Subject and policy files relating to fire prevention, including tests of fireproof flooring; inspection of public, government and Council buildings; fire precautions at various buildings including hospitals; petroleum storage; petrol fires on barges; celluloid risks; explosives; electric high voltage and neon signs; household fire protection rules; revised fire drill rules for schools; automatic sprinkler installation; foam installations to deal with petrol and oil fires; automatic drencher installations; means of escape in case of fire; Advisory Committee on the Amendment of the London Building Act, 1930; fire prevention arrangements on ships and Tube railways; Fire Prevention (Business Premises) Order, 1941.
Subject and policy files relating to water supplies including liaison with Metropolitan Water Board in cases of water shortage at fires; hydrants and hydrant tablets; maps showing locations of hydrants; hydrant registers. Subject and policy files relating to Fire Brigade buildings, particularly London Fire Brigade Headquarters at Albert Embankment.
Original fire reports, containing detailed reports concerning individual calls to fires, including false alarms, including: address of fire, occupiers of premises, business or trade carried on, where fire started, particulars of fire, times of calls, method of extinguishing fire, fire appliances in attendance and fire station called. Also daily return of fire calls, compiled under section 31 of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act, 1865, which required the Fire Brigade to supply each fire insurance company with a daily return of fires occurring in the Metropolis. The information generally duplicates that of the fire reports.
General reports and publications, including Memoir of James Braidwood; pamphlets and order of proceedings; handbooks; lectures; reports; articles; guidebooks; memoranda, orders and instructions; order books, statistics and log books. Also photographs.
Sem títuloRecords of the London County Council Public Control Department relating to diseases of animals and regulation of performing animals, 1892-1963, including files on foot and mouth disease; anthrax; glanders (a contagious disease in horses); parasitic mange; rabies and hydrophobia; sheep scab; sheep pox; Johne's Disease (wasting condition of cattle); fowl pest; the Report of the Committee on the Slaughtering of Livestock, 1932; the Departmental Committee of Inquiry into Cruelty to British Wild Animals; Interdepartmental Committee on Slaughterhouses; importation of dogs and cats orders; transit of animals orders; animals (sea-transport) orders; destruction of carcases; overcrowding of animals in railway trucks; transit of unfit animals by rail and road; the Control of Dogs Orders and Dogs Act, 1906; Exported Cattle Protection Order, 1957; Protection of Animals Act, 1911; Pet Animals Act, 1951; Animals Boarding Establishments Act, 1963; Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876; Protection of Birds Act, 1954; the Markets (Protection of Animals) Order, 1964; Animal (Cruel Poisons) Act, 1962. Also registers compiled under the Performing Animals (Regulation) Act, 1925.
Sem títuloRecords of the London County Council Public Control Department relating to the registration of charities, 1897-1965, including general files on the War Charities Act, 1916; charities for the blind; the Blind Persons Act, 1920; the Departmental Committee on Collecting Charities, 1925 and Collecting Charities (Regulation) Bill, 1929; charities previously administered by Boards of Guardians and Metropolitan Asylums Board; War Charities Act, 1940 and the National Assistance Act, 1948.
Schemes for the administration of charities approved by the Charity Commissioners, including reports made to the Charity Commissioners; 'A Digest of Endowed Charities in the Administrative County of London made by the Charity Commission', printed by order of the House of Commons, and copies of Sealed Schemes made by the Charity Commissioners.
Registers of charities under the War Charities Act, 1916; Blind Persons Act, 1920 and War Charities Act, 1940. Also files of correspondence between the LCC and the Charity Commissioners relating to non-educational endowed charities.
Sem títuloRecords of the London County Council Public Control Department, 1845-1966, including subject and policy files on various topics including the Royal Commission on Local Taxation; Smoke Nuisance Abatement (Metropolis) Bill; smoke nuisances, atmospheric pollution, smog and fogs; smoke in Thames tunnels; and electricity generating stations. Annual Reports of the Chief Officer of the Public Control Department and annual reports of the Public Control Committee and of the Inebriates Acts Committee. Other papers including Acts of Parliament relevant to the work of the Public Control Department; notes and instructions for guidance of inspectors; examples of warrants issued to officers authorising them to institute proceedings in the courts; solicitor's reports and legal opinions on public control matters.
Sem títuloRecords of the London County Council Public Health Department relating to organisational and general matters, 1867-1967, including copies of relevant Parliamentary legislation; reports on investigations by Council officials; legal cases; papers relating to the introduction of the National Health Service; papers relating to the construction and maintenance of buildings run by the Public Health department; conference and committee papers; statistics; papers relating to various public health issues including refuse disposal, drainage and sewers, air pollution, water supply, water quality and slum clearance. Reports and printed papers relating to public health, including booklets, posters and pamphlets produced by the LCC to advertise and explain their health services.
Papers of Sir Allen Daley (Principal Medical Officer, 1929-1938; Deputy Medical Officer of Health, 1938-1939 and Medical Officer of Health, 1939-1952), consisting of a collection of extracts from medical and other journals, 1912-1938. Papers of Dr J. Letitia D Fairfield, CBE, a Medical Officer and, later, Senior Medical Officer in the Public Health Department, 1911-1948, consisting of memoranda and correspondence arising in the course of her duties, articles written by her and other articles from medical and other journals on subjects of interest in connection with her duties.
Also collection of 360 files relating to the treatment of tuberculosis by the General Public Health Department of the London County Council, 1904-1950. Many of the files are concerned with particular hospitals and sanatoria in England, which specialised in the treatment and rehabilitation of tuberculous patients. The files contain descriptions of the sanatoria, reports of their management, correspondence, financial accounts and details of particular cases. These details include the welfare of patients, as well as arrangements for their travelling expenses. The files also relate to the provision of TB administration in war time, the treatment of service men and their families, and also of refugees. The files contain information relating to the treatment of diseases associated with TB, including lupus, syphilis, silicosis and asbestosis, osteomyetitis and poliomyelitis. Progress in the treatment of TB can be traced in the files relating to the value of treatment in Switzerland, and in the files concerned with Open Air Schools. Emphasis is also placed on the importance of mass radiography as an aid towards the detection of TB at an early stage, and file 360 contains a number of such X-Ray negatives.
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