Records of Shenley Hospital, 1931-1974, including minutes from various committees including the Middlesex Colony sub-committee, Standing sub-committee, Middlesex Colony Staff sub-committee, Management sub-committee and Mental Hospitals committee; administrative files including resolutions, annual reports, commissioners reports, Board of Control statistics, hospital services statistics, and contract specifications and estimates. Patient records include medical registers, admission and discharge registers, death registers, civil registers of voluntary and certified patients, and matron's reports. There are also records relating to staff and finance, and a large series of hospital plans dating from the 1930's when the hospital was opened. Most are architectural plans of the villas and other buildings which made up the Shenley Complex. There is also a series of plans which covers the whole site showing layouts of the villas and includes an overall key to the coding of the hospital buildings.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to school health, 1944-1965, including general files relating to: juvenile delinquency, physically disabled pupils, special schools, blind and partially sighted pupils, education of the deaf, residential schools, epilepsy, mentally deficient pupils, medical inspections, ear, nose and throat clinics, dermatological survey of schoolchildren, provision of medicines and vitamins, child guidance centres, holiday camps for diabetic and epileptic children, speech therapy, first aid equipment, accidents, employment of children, 'latch-key' children, school canteens, head lice, ophthalmic treatment, colour vision testing, orthopaedic treatment, physiotherapy, surveys of the health and development of children, precautions against tuberculosis, vaccination, maladjusted children, dyslexia, control of infectious diseases and school meals.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Public Assistance and Welfare Department relating to public assistance and relief, 1889-1948, including relevant Parliamentary legislation; papers of relief offices; personnel files; papers relating to relief policy; reports; appropriation of Poor Law hospitals; assessment regulations; papers relating to individual hospitals; papers relating to maternity care; papers relating to the care of children; papers relating to the care of mentally disabled persons; legal proceedings; registers and case files; registers of persons in the care of Boards of Guardians including lunatics and non settled poor.

Also papers relating to the Second World War including relief districts; invasion plans; fire watching and equipment; clothing distribution; arrangements for evacuation of persons in institutions and care homes; home refugees; refugees from abroad; billeting and re-housing; rest centres and emergency feeding.

Records of Tooting Bec Hospital, including Hospital management committee and sub-committee minutes and papers, 1948-1967; London County Council Tooting Bec Hospital sub committee papers, 1907-1948; Medical Superintendants report book, 1903-1911; Steward's report books, 1912-1948; admission and discharge books, 1930-1936; register of admission (male and female), 1948-1954; register of admission (male), 1936-1951; register of admission (female), 1936-1949 and 1957-1961; register of transfers, discharges and deaths (male), 1936-1962; register of transfers, discharges and deaths (female), 1936-1950 and 1962-1964; register of male patients, 1973-1977; creed register, 1938-1947; registers of deaths, 1944-1963; post mortem registers, 1932-1959; card index of patient deaths, 1960-1980; registers of staff, 1902-1909 and 1930-1965 and The History of Tooting Bec Hospital by Sue Simmons, 1995.

Records of Normansfield Hospital, including Mary Langdon-Down's Correspondence 1881-1888; John Langdon-Down's Correspondence 1883-1896; Mary Langdon-Down's Correspondence 1890-1900; Reginald Langdon-Down's Correspondence 1900-1951; Norman Langdon-Down's Correspondence 1963-1968; Correspondence and papers filed by subject 1907-1952; Memorandum and Articles of Association 1926; Testimonials and prospectus 1888-1946; Inventory and valuation 1941. Registers of admissions (including Earlswood Asylum) 1855-1914; Register of discharges and deaths (including Earlswood Asylum) 1855-1914; Medical visitation books 1868-1887; Reports on patients on admission 1881-1898; Dr Reginald Langdon-Down's notes on patients 1907-1934; Board of Control Visitors' books 1931-1960; Register of mechanical restraint and seclusion 1946-1960; Reception orders, medical certificates and statements 1863-1908; Death and discharge papers 1870-1954; X Ray photographs of patients and staff 1916-1932.

Staff record books 1898-1928; Officers' applications and testimonials 1891-1921; Applications for nursing and other posts addressed to Matron 1951-1952; Staff applications addressed to Medical Superintendent 1951-1959. Patients' ledgers 1888-1890; 1942-1955; Suppliers' ledgers 1909-1927; Wages book 1939-1951; Invoices and receipts, 1916-1922 and 1946-1951. Photographs of the Hospital buildings, farm and gardens, patients and staff and the Langdon-Down family, 1877-1983. Papers relating to the Langdon-Down family 1853-1927; League of Friends of Normansfield c 1957-1968; Centenary histories and celebrations 1968 and Newspapers cuttings 1970 -1979.

Papers relating to the Normansfield Inquiry, including Dr Lawlor's files 1970-1977; Dr Nelson's files on Education Unit 1958-1977; Area Nursing Officer's files 1969-1982; Regional Health Authority capital services files 1973-1976; Regional Health Authority Inquiry November 1976; Sherrard Inquiry transcripts of proceedings Feb 1977-Feb 1978; Documents submitted in evidence 1953?-1978; Report and disciplinary proceedings 1978-1979.

Records 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.

The initial deposit, sections A-K, consists mainly of correspondence and associated papers (leaflets, memoranda, extracts from minutes, etc.). There are two main series of correspondence: 'People' and 'General' and some other distinct smaller series such as 'Branches and other Societies'. The internal arrangement of these files is normally chronological, with a few exceptions (usually an alphabetical arrangement). There are also lecturers' report sheets, publications, slides, posters, charts, and photographs, mainly but not exclusively in Section G: Propaganda and Publicity. There is a set of Annual Reports and related material 1908-1979 (Section A). Under the will of Dr. Marie Stopes the Eugenics Society was left her birth control clinic, books from her library and certain emoluments. Three boxes of her correspondence and some miscellanea, were assigned to section K. In 1988 minute books and the Society's extensive collection of press cuttings plus some financial records were added as GB0120 SA/EUG/L-N.

Records of the City of London Mental Hospital (previously the City of London Asylum and commonly referred to as Stone House Hospital) including:
Visiting Committee Minutes (1857-1949);
Medical Superintendents' Records (1897-1959);
Annual Reports (1866-1947);
Statistics and Returns (1871-1946);
Rules and Regulations (1907-1973);
Correspondence related to Patient Admissions (1938-1947);
Visiting Committee Visitors Books (1930-1960);
Ward Meetings (1972-1978);
Female Case Books (1866-1959);
Male Case Books (1866-1929);
Medical Registers (1907-1950);
Discharge, Transfer and Death Records and Registers (1866-1958);
Indexes to Patients (1866-1963);
Registers of Private Patients (1892-1952);
Mechanical Restraint and Seclusion (1890-1950);
Burials and Post-Mortems (1921-1968);
Patient Files (1919-1979);
Rate Aided Patients: Civil Registers (1907-1952);
Admissions (1885-1997);
Records of Monthly Visits (1930-1962);
Records of Continuation Certificates (1936-1965);
Board of Control: Patient Book (1947-1960);
Ward Reports (1970-1986);
Staff Service Registers (1887-1947);
Wages, Salaries and Pensions (1866-1949);
Artizans' Workbooks (1889-1939);
Matrons' and Head Nurses' Report Books (1937-1949);
Compensation Claims (1929-1942);
Staff Files (1925-1949);
Staff War Service (1920);
Patients' Accounts Books (1932-1979);
Patient Maintenance Files (1910-1947);
Guidance and Procedures (1932-1949);
Chaplain Diaries (1866-1977);
Plans, Designs and Details (1860-1958);
Photographs (c 1860-c 2000);
Printing Blocks (c 1900-c 1929);
Publicity Material (c 1940-c 1959);
Chaplaincy Papers (1884-1971); and
Entertainment (1914-1931).

Records of Springfield Hospital, 1844-1990, including committee minutes and papers, annual reports, reports by the Commissioners of Lunacy and the Commissioners of the Board of Control, general administrative files, records of the League of Friends, admission and discharge registers, death, discharge and transfer registers, medical journals and treatment records, social histories of patients, staff records, financial records, plans of the hospital, photographs and publications.

Records of Darenth Adult Asylum, comprising Medical Superintendent's instructions, visitor's book, correspondence, weekly wage books, monthly salaries books, admission, discharge, transfer and death registers, Chaplain's interment registers, plans of the hospital buildings, photographs of officers and staff, documentation of entertainments laid on by patients and staff and an oral history of the visit of a former patient to the hospital.