Records of the North Surrey School District, 1849-1930, including minutes of the Board of Managers; minutes and reports of various Committees; medical reports; annual reports and statements of accounts; pamphlet 'A Short History of the North Surrey District School'; orders of and correspondence with the Poor Law Board and Local Government Board; admission and discharge registers for Anerley School; registers of apprentices and servants; staff lists and superannuation registers.
North Surrey School DistrictRecords 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.
North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital BoardWorks by Florence Nightingale, and works by various authors, the property of, or containing contributions by Florence Nightingale, on subjects including nursing, public health, hospital administration, and military hospitals.
Nightingale Florence, 1820 - 1910, reformer of hospital nursingPapers of Florence Nightingale, 1876-1956, comprising notes on sick nursing addressed to the editors of Every Girl's Magazine, 19 Nov 1881; photographs of autograph labels for Nightingale's collection of shells. Including a letter from G Ellis Flack from Nottingham University, where the shell collection is now housed, 1951; autograph in pencil; correspondence with Dr John Shaw Billings, 23 Oct 1876-4 Dec 1876, requesting advice from Nightingale on the building of a hospital in Baltimore by the Johns Hopkins Trust; and 2 letters relating to the efforts to locate the correspondence, Apr-May 1956.
Nightingale , Florence , 1820-1910 , reformer of hospital nursingThe collection chiefly comprises correspondence by Florence Nightingale, either in original or in copy form. The date-span covers the whole of her life and the subjects range from her attempts to become a nurse, service in the Crimea and subsequent work reforming the training and practice of nursing, through her other concerns such as Indian sanitation, cottage hospitals and the use of medical statistics, to personal and family matters. Well-represented correspondents include her family (particularly her sister Parthenope and brother-in-law Sir Harry Verney), Sir William Aitken (1825-1892), Professor of Pathology at the Army Medical School; George Hanby De'ath (c.1862-1901), Medical Officer of Health for Buckingham; William Farr (1807-1883), statistician; Miss Louisa Gordon, Matron at St Thomas' Hospital; Miss Amy Hughes, Superintendent of the Nurses' Co-operation; Sir John Henry Lefroy (1817-1890); Charles C. Plowden of the Sanitary Department of the India Office; and Mary Clarke Mohl (1793-1883). In addition, there is twentieth century material relating to Nightingale's legacy such as photographs of her grave (at MS.9101) and administrative papers relating to the compilation of A calendar of the letters of Florence Nightingale (Oxford, 1977) by Sue Goldie (MSS.9106-9109).
Nightingale , Florence , 1820-1910 , nursing reformerRecords of The Home for Aged Jews (later called Nightingale House and later Nightingale). This collection contains a wide range of records of the Home including minutes, a good set of annual reports, accounts, property and building records, printed material, photographs, film and videos. The archive gives detailed coverage of changes in care work and the life of residents and staff working at Nightingale. Of particular interest are the residents' admission book (1914-1933) and official 'diary' of events (1916) which are a good resource for tracing residents admitted to the Home, and the annual reports (1896-1997) which cover all aspects of the work of the Home including the early introduction of Occupational Therapy and other facilties for residents.
The majority of the archive relates to the later half of the 20th century, although there is a small survival of records from the early period of the Home and its former Charities (from 1879) before its move to Wandsworth in 1907. The minutes include a minute book of the Wandsworth Hospital Group's Jewish Home of Rest, Birchlands Avenue, Wandsworth. The property deeds include deeds of the Farmiloe family, lead and glass merchants of Rochester Row, Westminster.
Nightingale x Nightingale House (The Home for Aged Jews) The Home for Aged JewsMinutes of Health Authority meetings and records of the District Sub Committees.
Newham District Health AuthorityDorothy Newhall papers: Diaries and photograph album of service as a nurse in the Serbian Army and Sanitary Inspector with the Serbian Relief Fund, World War One.
Newhall , Dorothy Minnie , 1884-1975 , nursePapers relating to naval medical history, 1932, comprising a volume titled Grievances of Naval Surgeons containing precis of letters published in The Lancet from 1827-1902, compiled by 'Surgeon Captain, Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, September 1932'; 2 letters from Christopher Lloyd of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, to Miss Jessie Dobson, concerning a historical enquiry (24 Oct 1960), and a visit to look at 'your Lancet volume'; and a volume containing issues which appeared in The Lancet in the 19th century, for instance, the exclusion of naval medical officers from the King's Levees, a new mode of punishment in the Navy, hospital ships, and the Gilbert Blane Medal.
UnknownThe collection covers the work of the NNAH from its founding c 2000 up to its closure in 2007. It includes the institutional archives of the National Network for Arts in Health (NNAH) and the Baron Archive of Health Care Arts (c 1980-2000). The resources collected by both organisations include files on art, drama and music projects in the health service supported by Art in Hospitals and the NNAH, together with a library of 150 books, 4,500 reports and pamphlets and other research materials assembled as a resource for education and research.
National Network for the Arts in Health (2000-2007)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.
National Hospital for Neurology and NeurosurgeryRecords 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.
National Heart HospitalRecords of the National Heart and Lung Institute, 1877-1972, incorporating records of the Brompton Hospital, comprising catalogue of pathological specimens at Brompton Hospital, 1877; Dr Pollock's register of females admitted to the Brompton Hospital, 1878-1881; food supervisor's report book, 1924-1933; matron's report book, 1941-1954; illustrations of physicians and scientists, [1905-1913]; resident medical officer's report books, 1937-1947, 1967-1972;
correspondence to Dr Marcus Paterson as medical superintendant of Brompton Hospital Sanatorium, comprising letters from physicians, medical officers of health, former patients and their relatives and employers, trade correspondence relating to the sanatorium and treatment of tuberculosis, [1905-1912];
papers relating to Frederick Rufenacht Walters, [1882-1932], including notebooks concerning his publications, reprints, press cuttings, memoranda and some letters.
Napsbury Asylum papers comprising: procedure book, reports from Pathological Department, 1930s, investigation into typhoid carriers in the Hospital, 1934, study of 16 cases of cerebral tumour, 1935; articles and cuttings relating to psychiatry and neurology, 1927-1956.
Napsbury Mental Hospital , St AlbansRecords of Napsbury Hospital including minutes of the Standing Sub-committee of Visitors, 1898-1947; Sub-committee minutes, 1940-1941; Shenley and Napsbury Group minutes, 1948; Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1948-1949; hospital statistics, 1951-1970; admission registers, 1904-1951; death registers, 1933-1948; departure registers, 1931-1948; discharge registers, 1910-1961; general registers, 1948-1964; medical journals, 1915-1925; case books, 1905-1911; medical registers, 1940-1948; registers of daily patients, 1964-1972; some correspondence concerning patients, 1951-1953; register of mechanical restraint 1948-1952 and service patients' bill book, 1946-1952.
Napsbury HospitalDiary of a resurrectionist, 1811-1812, probably Joshua Naples, describing his activities supplying bodies to anatomists in London, including to St Thomas's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals.
Naples , Joshua , fl 1811-1812 , resurrectionistPapers of Isabella Jeanette (Jean) Murray, including letter enclosing gift, 21 Dec 1922; enrolment card as member of King's College Hospital Nurses League, 14 Jan 1925; receipt for life membership subscription of the League, 18 Apr 1927;
bundle of small black and white photographs including images of nurses Iris Angwen, Jean Murray, Dilnot, Emma, Wallis and Littlejohn, Nichol, Lloyd, Shaw, Ross, Bush, c 1924; photograph of Dr and Mrs Firth, and Raymond Firth, 1932; photograph of Lonsdale Ward, King's College Hospital (undated);
volume of manuscript notes on bandaging, operating theatre procedures and surgical equipment; cuttings of various remedies; the Hospital Chorus; trolley preparation for various procedures; and descriptions of treatments and patient preparation;
examination question paper for King's College Hospital Junior Probationer Examination [c.1921];
bundle of photocopies including an invitation to the Nurses Christmas Ball, King's College Hospital, Jan 1959; notes on Kitchen Duties;
letters to Murray, from T R Sanderson, Assistant County Secretary, British Red Cross Society Kent, confirming her appointment as an approved Lecturer in Home Nursing, 20 Mar 1940; from G G Hall British Red Cross Society, 2 May 1940, relating to Miss Murray's class undertaking the Home Nursing examination; from E [Guy] principal, Ashford Technical Institute and Evening Classes, relating to salary claim form for lectures given in Home Nursing, 7 Apr 1941.
Murray's books including: Text-book for nurses, anatomy physiology, surgery and medicine, E W Hey Groves, and J M Fortescue-Brickdale, 2nd edition, The Joint Committee of Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1919 (inscribed J I Murray, 1920); A handbook for nurses with examination questions based on the contents of the chapters, J K Watson, 5th edition, The Scientific Press, London.[undated] (inscribed J Murray 1919); A complete system of nursing, A Millicent Ashdown, J M Dent & Sons, London and Toronto, 1919 (inscribed I J Murray , and containing letters to Miss J J Murray 1940-1941)); Aids to anatomy and physiology for nurses, Katherine F Armstrong, Balliere, Tindall and Cole, London, 1939 (inscribed I J Murray).
Papers of Charles Murchison, 1845-1879, comprising school essays, 1845-1846; notebook containing notes and extracts on anatomy and zoology, 1846-1847, including an account of a meeting of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, 1847; notes on the New Testament, 1846; notes on Homer's Iliad, 1846 (3 vols); notes on the skin and subcutaneous cellular structure, with sketches, 1847; notes entitled 'observations on the spleen', with pencil sketches, 1849; note book entitled 'observations on temperature';
lecture notes taken by Charles Murchison as a student, comprising notes on Professor John Hutton Balfour's lectures on botany, delivered at Edinburgh University, 1847, including ink and pencil sketches; notes on Sir Robert Christison's lectures on vegetable material medica, delivered at Edinburgh University, 1847-1848, including diagrams and some notes on electricity (2 vols); notes on Professor James David Forbes' lectures on heat, delivered at Edinburgh University, 1846, with diagrams (2 vols); notes on John Goodsir's lectures on comparative anatomy, delivered at Edinburgh University, 1846-1847, including sketches (5 vols); notes on Robert Jameson's lectures on natural history, including geology and zoology, delivered at Edinburgh University, 1848, including ink diagrams (3 vols); notes on Professor Allen Thomson's lectures on the institutes of medicine, delivered at Edinburgh University, 1848;
case notes taken at Edinburgh, 1850, containing details of six cases and an autopsy; case notes taken at Edinburgh, 1850, of fifty cases, and at Westminster General Dispensary, 1854-1855, of one hundred and fifty six cases; four volumes of case notes of (mainly male) patients at St Thomas's Hospital, 1871-1879, including temperature charts and letters, written in a variety of hands (4 vols); case books, 1877-1878 containing case notes of female patients at St Thomas's Hospital (4 vols);
Letter to Murchison from [R Cokam] relating to a report of operations (undated); manuscript notes on Metals, 1847; black and white photograph of letter from Mr Snow to Murchison relating to presentation of a book by the late brother of William Snow.
Murchison , Charles , 1830-1879 , physicianPapers of the Multiple Sclerosis Society (MSS), 1953-1977, comprising general files relating to the MSS headquarters, 1953-1976; medical files relating to the MSS headquarters, 1955-1976; files relating to MSS regional branches, 1954-1977; and records relating to the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, 1955-1977.
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern IrelandPapers of Alfred Morris, Baron Morris of Manchester and Labour politician, 1965-1997. Comprises material relating to Morris' work for disabled people; papers relating to Morris' wider work as a Member of Parliament and to his Wythenshawe Constituency and Manchester; papers concerning Labour Party issues, the Co-operative movement and other organisations and institutions.
Morris , Alfred , b 1928 , Baron Morris of Manchester , Labour politicianRecords of Morden College, Blackheath, including correspondence, financial statements, and papers relating to a dispute with the Charity Commissioners.
Morden College , BlackheathRecords 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.
Children's Ophthalmic Convalescent Home , Moorfields Eye Hospital Central London Ophthalmic Hospital xx Moorfields Eye Hospital Moorfields Eye Hospital xx Moorfields, Westminster and Central Eye Hospital xx Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital' xx The London Ophthalmic Infirmary xx London Dispensary for curing diseases of the Eye and Ear Royal Westminster Opthalmic Hospital xx Moorfields Eye HospitalThe collection consists of miscellaneous material pertaining to Professor John Chassar Moir's career which was retained in the family, 1921-1977. This includes biographical material; research files, including on ergot, vesico-vaginal fistula, and history of obstetrics; a few case notes; correspondence; and two films of operations.
Moir , John Chassar , 1900-1977 , Professor of Obstetrics and GynaecologySecondary medical records, comprising GOS/12/1: Register of drugs issued, including names, quantity and cost, 1857-1865; GOS/12/2: Drug Issue Register, 1870-1875; GOS/12/3: Drug Issue Register, 1882-1887; GOS/12/4: Drug Issue Register, 1894-1903; GOS/12/5: Register of Beer, Wines and Spirits issued to patients, 1852; GOS/12/6: Register of beer issued to patients, 1858-1864; GOS/12/7: Register of beer issued to patients, 1864-1878; GOS/12/8: Register of wines and spirits issued to patients, 1876-1883; GOS/12/9: Register of brandy, port and stout issued to patients (Victoria Ward) 1891-1892; GOS/12/10: Monthly totals register of wines and spirits issued, 1852-1853; GOS/12/11 Monthly totals register of port, brandy, sherry, gin, claret and porter issued to patients, 1860-1869; GOS/12/12: Monthly totals register of port, brandy, gin and porter issued to patients, 1869-1879; GOS/12/13: Monthly totals register of port, brandy, sherry and porter issued to patients, 1879-1893; GOS/12/14: Monthly totals of brandy and sherry issued to patients by ward, 1923-1935.
GOS/12/15: Register of Anti-Toxin reports, 1900-1913; GOS/12/16-17: Registers of X-Rays, 1930, 1932; GOS/12/18-19: Blood-Bank registers, 1961-1962, 1963; GOS/12/20: Antra Wash-Out Clinic statistical register, 1965-1966; GOS/12/21-22: Surgical instrument registers for GOS surgeons during wartime use at Tadworth Court and Hempstead House, c 1940-1941; GOS/12/23: *Patient Appliance Forms (Splints), 1971-1989; GOS/12/24: Illustrated information leaflet on urine testing for Phenyl-Ketonuria published by GOS, 1957; GOS/12/25: Volume, 'Surgical Registrar's Scheme for Preparing and Maintaining Annual Index of Diseases', 1927.
GOS/12/26: Miscellaneous papers of the Medical Records Department; includes examples of patient attendance cards and doctors' letters, 1897-1934, and examples of early 'punch card ' patient records, 1952; GOS/12/27: Patient admission form, of Eileen Last (for electrical treatment under Mr Steward, at age 5 weeks) 1905; GOS/12/28: Patient admission and discharge cards of Grace and Hilda Gilbert (renal sarcoma patients of Mr. Barrington-Ward), 1931; GOS/12/29: Letter of Dr G F Still to Dr Callender concerning treatment of patient Margaret Trimley for tubercular peritonitis, 26 November 1927; GOS/12/30: Programme notes for Clinical Demonstration Day in Annie Zunz Ward, 15 February 1939; GOS/12/31: Table compiled by Mrs Mitzi Waltz, University of Sunderland, on possible cases of autism taken from Dr Dickinson's case notes; GOS/12/32 Patient cards etc, for Catherine Evans, 1925-1934.
GOS/12/33: Great Ormond Street Index to Standard Nomenclature of Diseases of the American Medical Association 4th edition, Dec 1965 (gift of RCPCH Library); GOS/12/34: Patient admission forms 1936; GOS/12/35-36 Patient cards and letters for Brian Cyril Smith, 1937-1938 (permission to use from date of deposit); GOS/12/37 Correspondence from, or concerning, former patients and their past treatment, 1931-1980 (received 2005-2008); GOS/12/38 Papers of D. Lewis, Senior Physiotherapy Nurse, on physiotherapy methods used at the Hospital, circa 1945-1950.
GOS/12/39-83 *Post Mortem Registers, 1860-1948; comprising GOS/12/39 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1860-1865; GOS/12/40 Post Mortem Case Reports,1865-1870; GOS/12/41 Post Mortem Case reports, 1870-1876; GOS/12/42 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1876-1879;
GOS/12/43 Post Mortem Case Reports,1879-1882; GOS/12/44 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1882-1884; GOS/12/45 Post Mortem Case reports, 1885-1887; GOS/12/46 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1887-1890; GOS/12/47 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1890-1891; GOS/12/48 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1891-1892; GOS/12/49 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1892-1894; GOS/12/50 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1894-1896; GOS/12/51 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1896-1897; GOS/12/52 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1896-1899; GOS/12/53 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1899-1900; GOS/12/54 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1900-1902; GOS/12/55 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1902-1904; GOS/12/56 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1904-1905; GOS/12/57 Post Mortem Case Reports,1905-1906; GOS/12/58 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1906-1907; GOS/12/59 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1907-1908; GOS/12/60 Post Mortem Case Reports; GOS/12/61 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1910-1911; GOS/12/62 Post Mortem Case Reports,1911-1913; GOS/12/63 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1913-1915; GOS/12/64 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1915-1918; GOS/12/65 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1918-1920; GOS/12/66 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1920-1921; GOS/12/67 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1921-1924; GOS/12/68 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1924-1926; GOS/12/69 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1926-1929; GOS/12/70 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1929-1931; GOS/12/71 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1931-1933;GOS/12/72 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1933-1935;GOS/12/73 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1935-1937; GOS/12/74 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1937-1940; GOS/12/75 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1940-1944; GOS/12/76 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1944-1945; GOS/12/77 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1945-1946; GOS/12/78 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1946-1947; GOS/12/79 Post Mortem Case Reports, 1947-1948; GOS/12/80 Post Mortem Catalogue (indexed alphabetically by condition, covering the 1860-1907 Case Report registers listed above);GOS/12/81 Post Mortem Photograph Album, c. 1900-1920 (?); GOS/12/82 Post Mortem Photograph Album, c.1920-1930 (?); GOS/12/83 Post Mortem Photograph Album, circa 1930-1948(?);
GOS/12/84 Attendance Card for Lily Rawlings (patient of Mr. Tyrrell Gray),7-19 March 1926; GOS/12/85 Patient Admission Card for John Cawson, 2 May 1948 (Gift of Mr. Cawson); GOS/12/86 Correspondence with Chief Executive Dr. Jane Collins of former patient Mr. G.K. Allen, concerning his treatment in the 1920s, 2011 *; GOS/12/87 Correspondence by postcard to patient Beryl Parr at Great Ormond Street and Tadworth Court,from family members,1928-1929 (gift from her family).
Great Ormond Street Hospital and patients' relativesRecords 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.
Miller General HospitalAdministrative records, Chaplain's records, patient records, nursing records, photographs and miscellaneous records.
Mile End HospitalAdministrative records, patient registers, nursing records and photographs.
Royal London HospitalMidwifery casebook, Aug 1781-Mar 1786, of 'cases extraord[inar]y' in the Lying in Hospital, Dublin and in private practice domiciliary visits 'chiefly among the poor', May 1782-October 1785. Indexed by symptoms.
UnknownRecords of the County Treasurer for the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, 1737-1900. No proper county accounts have survived for Middlesex before 1739, although the series MF which includes them up to 1900 does have record of transactions back to 1737; MF/L are accounts of the reclamation of subsistence paid to families of men serving in the Middlesex militia from outside the county (1779 - 1861); MF/T are records of annuities (or tontines) sold to raise a loan to build a new house of correction (1790-1888); MF/V are accounts concerned with the removal and subsistence of vagrants (1740-1864); MF/A covers the maintenance of lunatics and asylums (1828-1889); and MF/X are watch repairs accounts (1838).
Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the PeaceRecords of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions relating to local administration, 1590-1930. The number of series in MA reveals the wide scope of county administration dealt with at the sessions. A lot of the records date from the nineteenth century when there was an increase in central attempts at the regulation of many aspects of everyday life. MA/W deals with silk weavers' wage rates; MA/MW covers the work of Inspectors of Weights and Measures; MA/RS are reports from county committees and officers; MA/MS deal with military carriage rates; MA/S is concerned with the building and maintenance of the county's sessions houses; MA/MD covers the work of Inspectors of Animal Diseases; MA/C covers the work of the sessions' committees; MA/G is concerned with the building and maintenance of the county's prisons; MA/GS, likewise for Feltham Industrial School; MA/DCP are plans of county properties; MA/D and MA/DC contain deeds and contracts for county properties; MA/B are Bridge Committee papers; MA/A is concerned with the building and maintenance of the county's lunatic asylums; and MA/MN deals with military and naval recruitment in the county.
Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the PeacePapers of the Middlesex Memorial to King Edward VII Trust, including the trust deed of the Children's Fund; minutes, correspondence and administrative files relating to the Memorial Fund; and papers relating to Collington Manor, including plans of the house, Committee reports, budgets, and files relating to supplies, builders, equipment, doctors, staffing, and superannuation.
Middlesex Memorial to King Edward VII TrustPapers 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.
Middlesex Districts Joint Smallpox Hospital BoardThe collection comprises a detailed financial report on the state of the hospital, dated 1819 (WMS/Amer.80) and a prescription book for the women's section of a large hospital, dated 1840 and conjecturally assigned to the Hospital de San Andrés (WMS/Amer.87).
Hospital de San Andrés , Mexico City , MexicoRecords 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).
Metropolitan Hospital Sunday FundComprises: Administrative records; Estate and property records; Nursing records; Medical records; Pathology records; Radiography records; Nurses League records; Staff records; Operating theatre records.
Metropolitan Hospital, LondonRecords of the Metropolitan District Nursing Association, formerly the Metropolitan Nursing Association for Providing Nurses for the Sick Poor. The records comprise: minutes and annual reports, 1873-1974 (Ms 14618-24); correspondence and reports, 1876-1974 (Ms 14625-7); agreements 1917-38 (Ms 14628-31, 14811-12); financial records, 1924-74 (Ms 14632-6, 14891-3); and staff records, 1875-1974 (Ms 14637-51). They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff in 1973-4. The whereabouts of any further records is unknown.
Metropolitan District Nursing Association x Metropolitan Nursing Association for Providing Nurses for the Sick PoorRecords of the Metropolitan Benefit Societies Asylum, later known as the Metropolitan Benefit Societies Almshouses, including:
Administrative Records include minutes of the General Committee 1828 to 1965, Donors and Subscribers half yearly meetings 1844 to 1861, Monthly meetings 1883 to 1902, the Management Committee 1959 to 1984, House Committee 1839 to 1973, and Building committees 1853 to 1866 and 1953 to 1955.
Finance Records consist of Annual Statements 1963 to 1981, Accounts both income and expenditure 1831 to 1983, Registers of Donors and Subscribers 1835 to 1981, Annual returns 1975, 1979, 1980, and a rent book for Balls Pond Road 1905 to 1930.
Printed Material contains publications such as rules of the Almshouses 1855, 1926 and 1955, The Almshouse Gazette 1965 to 1990, and typescript notes about the history of the MBSA, plans of the Almshouse 1956 to 1980's and some ephemeral items which include a Warden's Diary from 1945 and a schedule of deeds and documents handed to trustees on 17th December 1878.
Metropolitan Benefit Societies Asylum x Metropolitan Benefit Societies AlmshousesStaff regulations for attendants on the patients at Metropolitan Asylums Board imbecile asylums, 1905.
MAB , Metropolitan Asylums Board x Metropolitan Asylums BoardUnpublished memorandum by Sir Frederick Norton Kay Menzies on the London County Council hospital service, 1941.
Menzies , Sir , Frederick Norton Kay , 1875-1949 , Knight , medical officer of healthPapers of the Mental After Care Association (MACA), c 1886-1994, comprising the constitution and background, c 1886-1992; annual reports, 1887-1993; minutes, 1921-1982; financial records, c1880-1987; administrative records, 1891-c1990; records relating to homes and hostels administered by MACA, including property documents and registers of individual residential homes in the South of England, 1910-1992; case records, 1888-1986; publicity material, publications including Journal of Mental Science containing papers by Henry Hawkins, and ephemera including scrapbooks, c1880-1994; and photographs and audio-visual material, 1927-1989.
Mental After Care AssociationLetters received by Dr Anne Summers (formerly of Wellcome Unit Oxford) in 1987, in response to a broadcast on Woman's Hour (BBC Radio), and an article published in Nursing Times; material in connection with the conference 'Memories of Health and Caring', Morley College, London, April 1987.
The letters contain accounts of individuals' experiences of health care they and their families received prior to the inception of the National Health Service (and some accounts by health care professionals), ranging from brief anecdotes to several pages of reminiscences.
The conference papers include list of attendees, financial arrangements, copies of newspaper articles and correspondence.
Summers , AnneCollection of miscellaneous medical material, 1744-1931, including 14 notebooks, comprising anatomical notes taken from a course of Dr John Hunter's lectures in 1774; a commentary, 1857, on Dr Alexander Munro's Osteology; notes by J Talfourd Jones on lectures on medical subjects, 1860-1863; notes on experiments in physiology by E H Starling, 1892; miscellaneous other notes, 1744-c1910 and undated. There are also printed reports of Manchester Public Infirmary and Lunatic Hospital, 1779-1780, 1786-1787, and of Manchester Lying-In Hospital, Salford, 1807-1812 (14 items, including some duplicates); miscellaneous photographs and negatives, 1889-1931 and undated, including some of tourist spots.
VariousMinutes, committee minutes, agenda books, rules and regulations, files and miscellaneous.
London Hospital Medical CouncilMinutes, constitutional and membership papers, meeting and agenda papers, secretary's papers, medical agency papers and miscellaneous papers.
London Hospital Medical ClubPapers of A E M Mead comprising:
The General Nursing Council for England and Wales record of Practical Instruction and experience for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1955-1959;
letter of acceptance for the King's College Hospital Preliminary Training School, High Elms, 8 Oct 1954;
typescript notice of King's College Hospital `Special requirements by Student Nurses on entry', with details of uniform and text books, Sep 1954; typescript notice concerning KCH Nurse uniforms, Feb 1956; signed copy of Mead's King's College Hospital Student Nurses Agreement, 14 May 1956; manuscript notes of the Sister Matrons' address [1956];
examination question papers for the King's College Hospital Preliminary Training School, High Elms, Farnborough, examination in nursing and first aid, nutrition and personal and communal health, elementary anatomy and physiology, Dec 1955;
printed notice of King's College Hospital Nurse-Training School of Rules for collection and examination of urine', [May 1957]; printed notice of King's College Hospital
Regulations for the nursing staff with regard to the ordering, custody and administration of dangerous drugs and poisons', Jan 1959; papers relating to Diabetic patients including card for Diabetic Clinic, menu for Diabetic Kitchen, and Diabetic Reducing Diet, 1959; typescript `Directions for padding a splint';
examination question papers of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales for the Preliminary State Examination in elementary anatomy and physiology and hygiene, Oct 1954, and candidates notice and admission number, Oct 1956; Final Examination for the General part of the Register, in three parts, with candidates notice and admission number, Feb 1959; also letters notifying passing of these examinations, Nov 1954, Nov 1956;
examination question papers for King's College Hospital Final Hospital Examination in General Nursing and Gynaecology, Jan 1959;
printed programme and ticket for King's College Hospital Medical School Annual Ball, 6 Feb 1959;
portrait photograph in nurse uniform; receipt for purchase of uniform coat, 15 Jan 1960.
Records relating to the Nursery School, Camp School, and Rachel McMillan College, [1860]-1977, comprising copy photographs of Deptford Health Centre, School Clinic and patients, views of Albury Street and residents, scenes of Girls' and Boys' Camps, Rachel McMillan Nursery School, visits by Queen Mary to the School, [1910-1929]; legal and financial papers, including wills and deeds, bequests, shares and bonds, off site properties and accommodation; Camp School Committee and Nursery School Committee minutes, [1910s]; College log books, 1923-1929; Nursery School log books, 1923-1928, 1954-1963;
student teaching practice and course notes, [1938];
Nursery School and Camp School pupil events and activities; visitations and inspections; publications and prospectuses; press cuttings; recollections of former students;
minutes of Rachel McMillan College Governors' meetings, 1930-1977; minutes of the Academic Council, 1957-1977; papers relating to the transfer of the College to the Inner London Education Authority, [1960s], and to Goldsmiths' College, [1970s] ;
photographs of the nursery school, School Clinic, nurse at work in the School Clinic, exterior and interior views of Albury Street, Deptford, the first Deptford Health Centre/School Clinic, [1910-1911].
Papers relating to Margaret McMillan and and the McMillan family, comprising copy correspondence, notes and articles, photographs, including of Rachel and Margaret McMillan and other family members, [1860-1917], press cuttings (originals at Lewisham); reminiscences of ex-students and friends about Margaret McMillan; books and pamplets by Margaret McMillan (most of this material is copied from originals held at Lewisham Local Studies Centre).
McMillan , Margaret , 1860-1931 , physical educatorPapers of Miss E M McInness comprising files containing a draft typescript history of St Thomas' Hospital, with proposed illustrations, and some manuscript notes.
McInness , Miss , E M , fl [1940-1965] , St Thomas's Hospital archivistUnpublished typescript memoir of nurse training at King's College Hospital, 1940-1945, written by Katherine McIlroy. Some names and places have been changed to protect identities.
McIlroy , Katherine , fl 1939-1945 , nurseRecords, 1936-1989, relating to the Mayfair Gas Company, comprising correspondence, typescript notes of meetings and papers concerning legal agreements of the partnership, 1936-1948, including typescript articles of partnership between W S McConnell and B R M Johnson, 1937; four notebooks containing tabulated case figures, 1929-1973; volume containing tabulated entries, 1936-1989, recording supplies acquired and details of suppliers; loose graph, 1954-1955; publications St Theresa's Maternity Hospital, Wimbledon, 1960, 1963.
Mayfair Gas CompanyCorrespondence, minutes and the draft report of the Maternity Unit Planning Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1959-1960.
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists