Records of the Middlesex County Council Architect's Department, including administrative records, 1929-1963, such as correspondence, contract books, registers, departmental organisation and procedures, committee papers and minutes, memoranda, exhibitions, journal articles and press cuttings on the work of the department, papers relating to the issue of iron and steel for building purposes, schedules of prices for building works, papers relating to private architects and correspondence with teaching staff on school design.

Records relating to the construction of primary and secondary schools in Acton, Brentford, Chiswick, Ealing, Eastcote, Edmonton, Enfield, Feltham, Finchley, Friern Barnet, Hampstead, Hanworth, Harrow, Hayes, Hendon, Heston, Hornsey, Northwood, Pinner, Potters Bar, Southall, Southgate, Teddington, Tottenham, Twickenham, Uxbridge, Wembley, West Kenton, Willesden and Wood Green, 1946-1963; including bills, estimates, contracts, accounts, specifications and correspondence. Contracts, estimates, bills and specifications for Acton Technical College, Ealing Technical College, Maria Grey Training College, Southgate Technical College, Trent Park Teacher Training College and Willesden Technical College, 1947-1963.

Bills, specifications, accounts, and estimates for other buildings, 1949-1964, including offices, branch libraries, housing, civil defence control centres, clinics, community centres, court houses, ambulance garages, fire stations, sports facilities and the Central Middlesex Hospital, Willesden.

Drawings and plans, 1880-1961, for Middlesex Guildhall, Hanworth Grammar School, Feltham; Edmonton Technical Institute; Twickenham sewerage connection; Twickenham Fire Station and an old people's home in Tottenham.

Papers of William Blair-Bell, 1909-1938, relating to a range of professional subjects, including Blair-Bell's cancer research work (particularly his use of lead) and the wider organisation of cancer research; the Liverpool Medical Research Organisation; the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire Publishing Company; the British Congresses of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BCOG); and Blair-Bell's nursing home and practice in Rodney Street. It also contains papers and correspondence concerning Eardiston, Blair-Bell's country estate near Oswestry; Rossall School, Preston, which Blair-Bell attended as a pupil and on whose council he later served; his wife's memorial in the church of St Chad's Haughton, Shropshire; and other personal matters. Only a small amount of material is concerned with the founding of the BCOG. Some pieces contain confidential medical records about individual patients.

Professional papers relating to Byrne's work as a General Practitioner, consisting of diaries and correspondence, 1947-80, material relating to his work at Manchester, 1960-78, in the Department of General Practice, which he was fundamental in establishing in 1968, including lecture notes, reports, speeches made to external bodies to promote the work of the Department, and material relating to his Chair, 1972-78, papers relating to the Royal College of General Practitioners, 1964-76, including papers relating to the committees on which he sat, including the Education Committee and the Board of Censors, and material relating to the duties undertaken during his presidency, 1973-76, correspondence with faculties of the College and other General Practice colleges worldwide, reports and correspondence relating to other commitments, 1946-86, such as the Leeuwenhorst Group and the local and regional medical advisory committees on which he sat, lecture notes and related correspondence from visits made abroad.

Biographic material includes personal notes, financial papers, correspondence relating to his award of OBE and CBE, and photographs.

Papers, 1865-1974, of and relating to (Ethel) Constance Cousins, including correspondence with her family, photographs, press cuttings and the unpublished typescript biography by her niece Janet E. Cousins. Also includes letters dated 1893-1900 from her father, Rev. William Edward Cousins, chiefly from Madagascar.

Papers of William Allen Daley, 1903-1913, comprise awards and photographs relating to Daley's medical career and achievements. The collection contains medals awarded to Daley, relating to his medical achievements, notably the George Holt Medal, Physiology, University of Liverpool, 1907 (Daley/01/03); photographs and illustrations, including images of staff within various institutions, notably including a photograph of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with a small party including Daley, 1940s (Daley/02/05) and certificates, acknowledging his professional qualifications and additional achievements including his Fellowship of Royal Society of Health, 1926 (Daley/03/06).

Papers of Morris Myer Datnow, 1929-1946, mainly comprising copies of papers produced by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) for circulation to Fellows and Members, 1935-1946, and including letter from William Blair-Bell inviting Datnow to join the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (BCOG), 1929; by-laws and regulations for the admission of Fellows and Members, 1929-1935; prospectus and regulations for the Diploma, 1933; BCOG memorandum regarding a standard rate of puerperal morbidity, 1937; BCOG memorandum setting forth certain principles which in the opinion of the College should be incorporated in a National Maternity Service, 1936; RCOG Inter-departmental Committee of the Ministry of Health on Medical Schools, 1943; BCOG list of donations to the endowment fund and the decorations and furnishing fund, 1934; notice of ordinary general meeting and annual report of Council for 1945, 1946;draft reply of the Liverpool Reference Committee to the College's request for information on the role of consultants in local maternity services and ante-natal clinics, 1937.

Administrative records.

Correspondence, minutes and the final report, 1961-1962, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Committee on General Practitioner Maternity Units.

Correspondence and reports relating to the establishment of a health room at Imperial College, 1949-1955; minutes and correspondence of the Health Room Committee, 1956-1967; Medical Services Committee, 1968-1977; Royal College of Art Medical Service Register, 1953-1956; report on the future organisation of the health service, 1976; appointment of Director, 1977-1980; reports of the Student Counsellor, 1974.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to administration, 1901-1965, including minutes of Staff Conferences; minutes of meetings of Heads of Sections; reports made to the Middlesex Local Medical Committee; minutes of meetings of Area Chief Clerks; examples of forms in use; general files relating to infant welfare, day nurseries, midwifery, home nursing, vaccination and immunisation, home helps, children in care, clinics, dental care and record keeping; papers relating to the National Health Service; papers relating to the Ambulance Service; papers relating to Regional Hospital Boards; papers relating to public health matters; statistics and returns; circulars from the County Medical Officer to the area medical officers; and papers relating to the reorganisation of London government in 1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to the dental section, 1922-1965, including orthodontic treatment policy; dental education to aid in the conservation of teeth; dental treatment in schools; research and investigation into sodium fluoride; dental prosthetics; dental anaesthetics; Ministry of Education circulars; Ministry of Health Circulars, and press cuttings.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to premises belonging to health services, 1948-1965, including policy and correspondence relating to health centres; mobile clinics; accommodation for Health Services staff; policy relating to the maintenance of premises, disposal of surplus equipment; papers relating to Brookfield House Clinic, Edmonton; and proposals for a clinic at Strathmore Road, Teddington.

Records of the Insurance Committee for the County of London, 1912-1948, and the Inner London Executive Council, 1948-1974. The records consist of bound, printed minutes which include agenda, reports and appendices for both the Insurance Committee for the County of London, the Inner London Executive council and its constituent committees and joint committees. Most of the series of minutes are complete.

The collection comprises prescriptions issued by Kellgren at various institutes for Swedish medical gymnastics; namely, the Schwedisches Heilgymnastisches Institut in Gotha, Germany (MSS.5406-5407 and 7869), the Schwedisches Institut für Manuelle Behandlung der Krankheiten, Baden-Baden (MS.7872), the Swedish Institution for the Cure of Diseases by Manual Treatment, London (MSS.5408 and 7870), the Institutet för Manuel Sjukbehandling, Sanna, near Jönköping, Sweden (MS.5409), and the Institution Suèdoise pour le Traitement Manuel des Maladies, Paris (MS.7871). Patients include members of the nobility of the United Kingdom and of Germany, as well as members of the Kellgren and Cyriax families.

Papers of the Malaria Research Laboratory, 1939-1967, relate to the work of the laboratory and the collation of data concerning documented cases of malaria within Britain. The collection notably includes correspondence and other documentation between P G Shute and G Covell, Assistant Director and Director of the Laboratory, and various hospitals and other medical institutions regarding blood films examined by the Laboratory for malarial parasites, 1939-1963; Public Health Laboratory Service yearly reports of malaria cases, 1954-1966 and annual reports of the Malaria Research Laboratory, 1957-1967.

Correspondence of E A J Alment, correspondence, background papers, committee minutes and architectural plans, 1969-1971, of the RCOG Maternity hospital planning sub-committee.

Correspondence, minutes and the draft report of the Maternity Unit Planning Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1959-1960.

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).

Minute books, 1926-1927, and Annual reports, 1926-1938, of the Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, and volumes of press-cuttings about the Centre 1929-1961; files, publications and ephemera relating to the activities of the Centre, 1925-1952; files of the Pioneer Health Centre Ltd following the closure of the Centre, 1950-1999; books about the Centre; photographs, films and videos; papers of George Scott Williamson, 1910-1991, including personalia, correspondence, lectures, drafts of articles and books, notes; papers of Innes Hope Pearse, including personalia, correspondence, notes, manuscripts, drafts of The Quality of Life, reprints; materials relating to Scott Williamson and Pearse's research on pathology and the thyroid, including notes, lectures, manuscripts, correspondence, and reprints.

Papers of the Standing Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and British Paediatric Association, later Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health, 1949-1993, mainly from the time of the reconstitution of the committee in 1965 and dealing particularly with staffing structure of maternity units for the care of the newborn. They include Committee agenda, minutes and papers, 1980-1988; Papers and correspondence of the Joint BPA/RCOG Standing Committee on Prematurity, 1949-1954; Correspondence and some minutes largely concerned with the establishment of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Oxford, 1974-1979; Results of questionnaires circulated when compiling data for the BPA/RCOG discussion document: Midwife and nurse staffing and training for special care and intensive care of the new born, 1978-1980; RCOG/BPA reviews of Maternity Services Advisory Committee reports, 1985-1986; Correspondence and papers relating to Royal College of Physicians working party on neonatal services, 1986; records of multidisciplinary working party on resuscitation of the newborn, 1995-1997; report on fetal abnormalities - guidelines for screening, diagnosis and management, 1997.

Papers of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, 1899-1943, including the Laboratories' annual reports and reports of the Entomological and Chemical Sections.

Records of Leslie R Wolfson's dental practice, 1934-1987, consisting largely of accounts such as balance sheets, cash books, bills, receipts and tax papers relating to Mr Wolfson's dental practices in Enfield; sample of patients' record cards (patients unidentifiable); booklets, pamphlets, and so on regarding aspects of dentistry, National Health Service leaflets and other leaflets on dental charges; and correspondence concerning property transactions in Enfield including agreement for sale of general practice at Grange Park, Enfield.