Records of the Hampstead General Hospital, formerly the Hampstead Home Hospital Hospital and Nursing Institute, 1882-1975, comprising:

Administrative records, notably Annual Reports, 1906-1945; Council minutes, 1886-1889, 1895-1948; House Committee minutes, 1886-1948; Visitors Books, 1898-1946; Building Committee minutes, 1899-1912; Medical Committee minutes, 1905-1974; correspondence and papers on dispute with the British Medical Association over the appointment of local medical practitioners to the Hospital, 1908-1910; Chaplain's Attendance and Report Book, 1911-1919; West End War Memorial Bed Committee minutes, 1921-1936; House Inspection reports, 1927-1947; Seal Books, 1931-1939; First Aid Post correspondence and accounts, 1940-1945; Nursing/Education Committee minutes, 1943-1967; Nurse Preliminary Training School Committee minutes, 1943-1953; Hospital Committee minutes, 1948-1951

Financial records, including Finance Committee minutes, 1901-1948; Audited Accounts, 1911-1948; Wages Book, 1912-1917; Medical Costs, 1915-1917; Clinical Analysis and Costs, 1931-1950; Patient's accounts, 1949-1968

Patient records, including Consultant books of Sidney Boyd, 1910-1939; Operating Department Registers 1970-1974; X-Ray Department Registers, 1968-1975

Ladies Association Annual Reports, 1914-1972; minutes, 1899-1912; Treasurer's records, 1952-1975

Nurses League publications, correspondence, photographs and ephemera, 1955-2000

The archives of the Royal Free Hospital, London, 1828-2000, comprising:
Administrative Records, 1828-1974; including Court of Governors Annual Reports and minutes, 1828-1946; Royal Free Hospital Group Board of Governors minutes, 1948-1974 (this series also contains material relating to other Hospitals in the Group, particularly the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, 1948-1962, Hamstead General Hospital, 1948-1970 and the Liverpool Road and Lawn Road branches of the RFH); Committee of Management minutes 1828-1948; Weekly Board minutes 1846-1948, sub-committee minutes and reports 1899-1936; RFH Committee minutes, 1952-1971; House Committee minutes, 1928-1948; Building Sub-Committee minutes 1933-1940; Secretary and House Governor's out-letter books, 1920-1923, 1936-1948; Development Committee minutes 1945-1946; Patients' Services Committee minutes, 1971-1974; University College Hospital and RFH Joint Working Party minutes 1970-1972; Anniversary Committee minutes and papers, 1977-1979;

Financial records including Finance Committee (later titled Finance and General Purposes Committee and Finance and Policy Committee) minutes, 1948-1974;

Almoner's records including Report Book 1895-1913 and correspondence, 1901-1961; reports of Royal Free Hostels for Women and Girls, 1919-1960;

Records of Charitable Funds, 1902-1977; comprising Students' Bed Endowment Fund minutes 1904-1939; Dresden Assistance Fund minutes 1904-1953, accounts 1912-1948, records of payments to patients 1938-1961; Scottish Womens Hospitals Memorial Association Executive Committee minutes, 1921-1958, financial records 1940-1951; Ladies Association Executive Committee minutes 1902-1916, 1927-1929; Princess Marie Louise Guild of Work minutes, 1907-1911; Patients and Friends League Executive Committee minutes, 1933-1977; Auntie Ruby's Jig Stamp Club minutes and cash books, 1954-1962;

Medical Advisory Committee (formerly Medical Staff Advisory Committee) records, 1905-1984,including: Medical Committee minutes 1906-1977 and reports 1905-1950; Medical Executive Committee minutes and agendas, 1975-1990; Venereal Disease Sub-Committee reports, 1919-1940; Sub-Committee of Anaesthetists minutes 1952-1969; Sub-Committee of Surgeons (renamed Division of Surgery, 1970) minutes 1959-1982; Sub-Committee of Physicians minutes 1957-1971; Renal Unit Sub-Committee minutes 1965-1967; Division of Radiology minutes 1977-1984; Division of Medicine minutes 1971-1984; Control of Infection Sub-Committee minutes 1976-1985; Division of Psychiatry minutes 1980-1986; Division of Oncology minutes 1985-1988; Surgical Specialty Group minutes relating to the disciplines of Opthalmology, Ear Nose and Throat, Plastic, Oral and Dental, Accident and Emergency and Othopaedic surgery, 1988-1990;

Nursing records including Register of Nurses, 1868-1937; Matron's Reports to Weekly Board, 1899-1905, 1930-1948; Matron's Register of Probationers, 1901-1933; Nurses log book, containing record of work, training and examinations, 1902-1920; records of Probationer and Student Nurse Examination results 1925-1988; Sisters' record books, 1955-1952; register of Pupil Midwives, 1929-1933; Staff Nurses and Staff Midwives record books, 1928-1954; Nurses' Ward Reports, 1950-1956; Register of Affiliated Nurses, 1938-1953; General Nursing Council Index of Student Nurses, 1947-1953; photographs of Student Nurses, 1947-1970; Nurses Education Committee minutes and papers, 1949-1959; School of Nursing Academic Board minutes, 1972-1983; records of the RFH Nurses League, 1910-2000;

Patient records including Case Notes 1890-1944; microfilms of patient records, 1974-1980, subdivided into Transplants, Miscellaneous, Deaths, DIC (Differential Interference Contrast) films; Post Mortem Examination Reports, 1907-1914, 1928-1973; Cause of Death Registers, 1950-1966; index of patients of the Marlborough Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine (formerly the Marlborough Clinic), 1917-1974; Electro-cardiograph (ECG) Registers, 1968-1975; Dischage and Death registers, 1981-1989; Ward Admission Registers, 1974-1975, 1983-1985; RFH Lawn Road (or North Western) Branch: In-patient Registers, 1965-1972;

Press cuttings relating to the Royal Free Hospital, 1934-1946, 1974-1998, including collection of cuttings and articles relating to the outbreak of 'Royal Free Hospital Disease', 1955, one of the earliest documented outbreaks of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome;

Photographs of the RFH, c. 1880-2002, particularly construction of the 'new' Royal Free in Hampstead, 1970-1974;

Ephemera relating to the history of the RFH, c1828-2002, including papers and artifacts relating to benefactors, hospital events and anniversaries, particularly 100th and 150th anniversaries of the foundation.

Records of the North Thames Regional Health Authority and predecessors, 1944-1995. This collection includes minutes, agendas and papers of the Health Authority/Health Board and various committees including the Nurse Training Committee; Hospital Management Committee; University Liaison Committee; Dental Committee; Nursing and Midwifery Committee; Optical Committee; Manpower Committee; Appointments Advisory Committee; District Pharmaceutical Managers; Senior Registrar's Joint Advisory Committee; Chief Nursing Officers Group.

Also press cuttings, regional circulars, financial accounts; photographs and reports.

Copy letter from the Matron of Friern Hospital, Mrs A M Blythe, 1941, describing the reception of mothers and babies from the City of London Maternity Hospital after that hospital was severely damaged by bombing, and the treatment and experiences of air raid casualties.

Administrative records, financial records, patient records, nursing records, photographs, pharmacy records and miscellaneous records.

Registers of nurse training and registers of trained nurses.

Administrative records; records of the Cardiac Department; records of Chaplain's Department; records of the Neurophysiology Department [a.k.a. E.E.G. Department]; title deeds, leases, trusts etc; records of the Dermatology Department; financial records; records of the Department of General Medicine; records of the London Linden Hall Association; patient records; records of the Department of Medical Photography; Medical Unit records; nursing records; records of the Nutrition and Dietetics department; nursing education records; records of the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry; records of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department; records of Orthopaedics Department; Occupational Therapy Department; photographs; records of the Pharmacy Department; records of the Public Relations Department; records of the London Hospital Photographic Society; records of the Radiotherapy Department; records of the Radiology Department; surveyors and estate records; records of the Social Society; records of the Works Department; records from unofficial sources, and persons and subject files.

Comprises: Dispensary; Alexandra Hospital School; Administrative records; Financial records; Estate and property records; Drawings and illustrations; Postcards; Nursing records; Medical records; Photographs; Staff records; Operating theatre records; Supplies Department; External publications.

Records of West Middlesex University Hospital, including annual reports, 1961-1976; administrative files on subjects including the redevelopment of the hospital, staffing, information for patients, medical committees, research ethics, procedures and correspondence, 1939-1992; registers of admission, 1946-1948; registers of creed, 1942-1944; registers of birth, 1896-1976; registers of deaths, 1946-1956, registers of operations, 1920-1971; matron's report books, 1896-1931; registers of sisters, staff nurses, probationers and assistant nurses, 1896-1968; School of Nursing prospectuses, 1960-1970; Isleworth League of Nurses journals, 1923-1957 and photographs of the hospital, staff and patients, 1940-1985.

Records of the London County Council Public Health Department relating to personal health services, 1902-1963, including papers on Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics and Health Centres, including papers of individual clinics and brochure "Health Services and How to Obtain Them" (1958); papers relating to Domiciliary Midwifery Services including notices, rules, lists of certified Midwives, training, historical sketch of the service and the Midwives Bill, 1902; papers relating to day nurseries and home helps, including sample of applications for home helps and report on LCC Home Help Service by the National Institute of Houseworkers; papers regarding chest clinics for the treatment of tuberculosis, including sample of case papers for the boarding out of child tuberculosis patients, papers and case notes of tuberculosis patients, reports relating to tuberculosis and papers of individual chest clinics; papers relating to blind persons, including papers of the Departmental Committee on Welfare of the Blind, reports and schemes undertaken under the Blind Persons Act, 1920, papers on the prevention of blindness and investigation into myopia, the number and general classification of blind persons in London and ophthalmological research.

Papers of Rudolph Karl Freudenberg and Gerda Freudenberg relating to psychiatric practice at Netherne Hospital, Freudenberg's involvement with various professional bodies, and his writings on psychiatry, 1930s-1970s.

A. Rudolph Karl Freudenberg's Personalia

1 Personal papers and correspondence; 2 Offprints and publications; 3 Unpublished general papers; 4 Conferences; 5 Files of rough notes; 6 Films

B Netherne Hospital

1 Published articles and reports; 2 External reports on Netherne; 3 Unpublished articles on Netherne (excluding training); 4 Material for training; 5 Netherne Magazines; 6 Committees and meetings; 7 Printed guides; 8 League of Friends and other voluntary help; 9 General planning and memoranda; 10 Day hospitals and hostels; 11 Occupational and industrial therapy; 12 Rehabilitation (wider than purely industrial); 13 Questionnaires and forms; 14 Censuses; 15 Art; 16 Other directly Netherne material; 17 Photographs and slides; 18 Audio tapes; 19 Films; 20 Related material - not specifically Netherne

C Department of Health and Social Security

D Local related bodies

1 Cheshire Home, Wimbledon; 2 Schizophrenia Research Fund; 3 Surrey Council for Mental health; 4 Surrey Group of National Schizophrenia Fellowship; 5 Reigate and District Association for Mental Health; 6 National Association of League of Hospital Friends; 7 Disablement Income Group, Godalming; 8 Share Community Ltd; 9 Surrey Resettlement Ltd; 10 West Lambeth Community Health Council; 11 Industrial Therapy Organisation (Epsom) Ltd; 12 London Borough of Sutton: review of Health and Welfare Services; 13 Orpington Mental Health Association

E Other bodies

1 King Edward's Hospital Fund; 2 Mental Health Research Fund; 3 National Association for Mental Health; 4 Royal Medico-Psychological Association later Royal College of Psychiatrists; 5 Medical Research Council; 6 General Nursing Council 7 The Council for Music in Schools; 8 Council of Europe; 9 World Health Organisation

F General offprints

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to staff, 1947-1965, including general files relating to: medical staff, dental staff, uniforms and protective clothing, midwives, home nurses, training, health visitors, day nursery staff, medical auxiliaries, residential special schools, airports, chest clinics and health education.

Papers of Shui-wai Lee relating to her nursing training and permission to work in Britain.

St Giles Hospital School of Nursing register of Student Nurses particulars, 1944-1949; Student Nurses Register, 1944-1957; Lectures and Examination Particulars, 1952-1966; and photographs of nursing staff, 1931.

Papers of Sister Elsie Mason comprising photograph album containing small black and white photographs depicting, nurses, wards, patients, students at King's College Hospital etc, 1917-1919. Most images are labelled and dated.

Papers of Margery Kathleen Blyde comprising King's College Hospital certificates of invalid cookery, 21 Dec 1920; and completion of training 1922; General Nursing Council for England and Wales Certificate of General Registration, 16 Feb 1923; Brighton and Hove Hospital for Women and Children, certificate of attendance and instruction in midwifery, 14 Mar 1924; Central Midwives Board certificate, 9 Apr 1924; Membership of The College of Nursing, 19 Nov 1926;
humorous sketches of Sister Blyde and some of her patients, by F R Cornish, with accompanying letter, Feb 1925;
National Registration Identity card (with photograph), Aug 1940; Official Pass and Identity Card, Oct 1939; passports issued 1938 and 1967; USA Alien Registration Card [1947]; United States [of America] Departing Alien Income Tax Return, 1947;
certificate of vaccination against smallpox, 15 Apr 1947; International certificate of vaccination or revaccination against smallpox, 1969;
letters and memoranda relating to award of OBE, 1945 including also news cutting, reporting appointment, 14 Jun 1945;
invitation and papers for Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, 24 Jul 1962;
presentation album given to Blyde by members of the King's College Hospital Nurses' League, in appreciation of here service as Sister Matron, 1937-1947, containing names of League members and watercolours illustrations of flowers; presentation album from the staff at the Royal Eye Hospital, St George's Circus and Surbiton, containing the names of hospital staff; telegram conveying greetings for a reunion, 19 Jul 1947;
OBE medal, and letter from King George VI, regretting the award not being made personally, 9 Oct 1946; Defence Medal 1939-1945, and ribbons; badge of the Association of Hospital Matrons; General Nursing Council badge, 16 Feb 1923; badge of the Student Nurses Association; enamel AVF badge;
letters to Blyde relating to her retirement, from Lord Hambleden, Apr [1947]; Stella Tufton, 25 Mar 1947; Air Marshal Sir Andrew Grant, 18 Mar 1947; A S [Whittoch], Air Ministry, 29 Mar 1947;
letters to Blyde relating to her retirement from the Salisbury Hospital Group Management Committee, 1966;
ticket to the United States Senate Chamber visitors gallery, 15 Apr 1970;
Orders of service for funeral of Blyde, at St Michael, Teffont Evias, 21 Feb 1980; and Thanksgiving Service at King's College Hospital Chapel, 27 Apr 1980;
letter from Major General D H G Rice to P G C Blyde (nephew of M K Blyde) relating to donation of OBE medal to KCH, 31 Mar 1980;
black and white photographs including depicting members of the Nursing Advisory Board meeting, Sep 1941; Blyde with Evelyn Opie and M I Otway [1960s]; Blyde [attending the Festival of Britain, 1951]; Blyde with HRH Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent; portraits of Blyde; pet dog; [Garden Houses, King's College Hospital Denmark Hill]; Blyde with visitors to the Hospital;
Blyde's copy of Common disorders and diseases of childhood, G F Still, 3rd edition, Oxford Medical Publications, London, 1920

Papers of Isobel Christine Stewart Brown comprising University of London Diploma of Sister-Tutor, 10 Oct 1957; King's College Hospital (KCH) certificate of training, 1947-1949; KCH Nursing School certificate of first place in the Final Examinations, and Monk Memorial Prize, 26 Oct 1949; KCH Nursing School certificate awarding the Monk Memorial Prize, Sep 1949;
file containing copy of Brown's application for appointment as and District Nursing Officer, King's Teaching District of the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Area Health Authority (Teaching) ; copy of contract of employment as Chief Nursing Officer, Jan 1974; Brown's correspondence; papers relating to the staff structure Senior Nursing staff 1970; papers relating to the Professional Services Committee, International Council of Nurses; papers relating to elections to the Council of the Royal College of Nursing, 1973; carbon copy of Brown's curriculum vitae; papers re nomination to Regional Hospital Boards, 1971; minutes of meeting with Divisional Nursing Officers and Director of Nurse Education to discuss alterations in the Management Structures, 5 Nov 1976;
certificate of the United States Army School, Europe, Executive and Career Development Department for completion of Personnel Management for Executives Programme, 11-20 Mar 1970; brochure for the Army Regional Training Centre, US Army School, Europe, Oberammergau, on Personnel Management for Executives [1970s];
typescript paper `Communication within and among nursing organisations' presented to the International Council of Nurses Congress, Frankfurt, Jun 1965, by Christine Brown, representing the Royal College of Nursing and National Council of Nurses of the United Kingdom;
invitation to Miss Isobel Brown, KCH, to attend the Queen's Garden Party, Buckingham Palace, Jun 1979;
letter from the Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary relating to the recommendation of Brown for appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), 1 May 1981, with related correspondence, 1981-1982; OBE medal and ribbon and British Empire Brooch; certificate of The International Council of Nurses in recognition of services during term of office as a member of the Professional Services Committee, 1973-1981;
two cards signed by many staff on the occasion of Brown's retirement; menu for dinner of the Sisters of KCH to mark the retirement of Brown, 22 Apr 1982;
black and white photograph [Brown and HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother];
typescript biography of Brown.

Papers on Catherine Mary Clappen comprising two volumes of manuscript notes, with tutor's corrections, on lectures attended as part of her nursing training at King's College Hospital, including volume titled Special Lectures' containing manuscript notes, and some diagrams on lectures titled Nursing and public health - infant feeding; public health; drugs and their administration; drugs, drugs effecting the respiratory system; treatment of poisoning; feeding the sick; micro-organisms; Dental lectures; lectures on the ear (Mr A Cheatle); lectures on the eye (Mr Cargil), Feb-Jul 1924; and volume titledMidwifery Lectures'(undated);
certificate of service at King's College Hospital as staff nurse, Jan - Aug 1925;
State Registered Nurse badge of The General Nursing Council for England and Wales [19 Jun 1925].
Also includes note with biographical information on Clappen, and the deposit information, May 1992.

Papers of Ellen Gatter comprising note/sketch book containing anatomical drawings, mostly pencil sketches, occasional colour added, as well as some notes on anatomy. The volume also contain sketches of classical designs, and patterns and ornaments, and notes on `the principles of ornament' [1905-1909]; note/sketch book, containing pencil drawings of anatomical subjects and human models, as well as bibliographic notes, 1907; sketch book, of anatomical drawings, some coloured, and sketches of models, 1905-1909, with sketches in the back depicting coats of arms, and armour.

Papers of Eleanor Davies-Colley, 1932, comprising a letter of reference by Davies-Colley, written on the headed paper of 16 Harley Street, 23 Mar 1932. Recommending Sister Perry, who worked at the South London Hospital for Women, 1929-1930. Including a note by Perry.

Papers of the Royal Maternity Charity, 1761-1949, including minute books, 1761-1949; 'Rough minute books', 1772-1826 and case-book of Robert Barnes at the Royal Maternity Charity, Oct 1857-Oct 1858.

Papers, 1919-1979, of and relating to Emily Godfrey, comprising a record of her missionary work and biographical information, 1921-1978; copy certificate as founder member of the Royal College of Nursing, undated; her testimony when applying to be a missionary, 1919, and typescript copy; letters and papers, 1919-1921, relating to her appointment by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society (PMMS); PMMS congratulations on receiving the Royal Red Cross medal for war work, undated; printed papers relating to Methodist activities, mainly in England, some relating to addresses by Emily Godfrey, 1921-1937; printed and typescript reports on her work in Nigeria, 1922-[1934]; letters received from various correspondents, 1922-1954, the subjects including her missionary work and retirement (1944); letters, 1942-1946, from German missionaries who were interned in Nigeria and England during World War Two; papers relating to pensions, 1937-1964; leaflet appealing for funds for the Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara, Nigeria, c1976; typescript accounts by Emily Godfrey of her work in Nigeria, one made from a tape recording (since lost), undated; printed and typescript items on her death, including obituaries and a letter of condolence, 1978-1979.

Cassette copies and transcripts of recordings of unedited interviews assembled, 1972-1974, for the radio series 'Plain Tales from the Raj', including material not included in the broadcast programmes, and comprising c200 hours of material. The 82 subjects interviewed, including men, women, adults and children, lived and worked in India from the late 19th century to Independence (1947) and the interviews cover a wide range of civilian and military experience between 1876 and 1949. Military personnel range from the Commander in Chief of the Army in India to Army privates. Civil servants of various ranks and members of the business and commercial world, for example tea planters, are also included. Women mainly comprise wives and daughters, but also include a few nurses and governesses. The project covered the lives of the British in India and, although the material touches upon the effect of the Raj on India and its indigenous inhabitants, only a small number of Indians and Eurasians were interviewed. Subjects covered include accommodation and living conditions; daily routine; social life and recreation; health and sanitation; the effects of India postings on family life; relations between the British, other Europeans, Indians and Eurasians in social and work environments; events such as riots and earthquakes; the fauna and landscape of India; and political events. Full typescript transcripts (including inaccuracies in some cases) exist for most, but not all, of the recordings.

Papers, c1917-1948, of William Sheldon Ridge, comprising photographs, manuscripts of books containing material used for his lectures on Chinese international relations, and miscellaneous papers. Includes papers relating to his wife Frances.

Records of London County Council midwife Agnes Morris. These registers, printed by the London County Council Public Health Department, include the name, address and age of the mother, the date and hour of the child's birth, its sex and whether it was a live or dead birth, with other information about the attendances of the midwife and other doctors or nurses and remarks of a medical nature of the birth. With few exceptions the mothers concerned lived in Peckham until 1952. From 1953 to 1956 the cases were in Balham and Tooting and from 1956 to 1957 in Woolwich.

The volumes are closed under the Data Protection Act. Volume 1 will be open from 2015; volume 2 from 2018 and volume 3 from 2023. Please ask a member of staff for more information.

Minutes of the Council and of Branch Meetings of the Metropolitan Branch of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.

Records 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.

Records of the London County Council Public Health Department relating to staffing, 1894-1950, including general files relating to medical staff in hospitals and institutions, nursing staff, training of ex-tuberculous patients as nurses, shortage of nurses, recruitment and retention of nurses, training of nurses, report "Staffing London's Hospitals", midwifery training, almoners and psychiatric social workers. Papers relating to the Rushcliffe Committee on Nurses Salaries, and other negotiating Committees including the Inter-Departmental Committee on Nursing Services ("Athlone Committee"), Midwives Salaries Committee, Joint Committee on Salaries, and Wages of Hospital Staffs, Sub-Committee on Almoners and Psychiatric Social Workers, Sub-Committee on Laboratory Technicians, Sub-Committee on Pharmacists, Sub-Committee on Physiotherapists, occupational Therapists and Speech therapists, Sub-Committee on Radiographers, and the Committee on the Salaries of Whole-Time Public Health Medical Officers. Staff directories, reports and memoranda on nursing, and leaflets and brochures for nurse recruitment.

Sample of the 45,000 dossiers of staff employed by the Metropolitan Asylums Board before 1930 and not transferred to the Council; sample of the dossiers of LCC hospital staff. Registers of staff at mental Hospitals, including Banstead Asylum, Cane Hill Asylum, Claybury Asylum, Colney Hatch Asylum, Hanwell Asylum and Horton Asylum.

Records of the North-Western Fever Hospital (NWFH), (later the Lawn Road or North-Western Branch of the Royal Free Hospital), 1887-1972, comprising: Nursing Staff Registers, containing service records for nurses and ward orderlies, 1887-1951; Nurse training records, for probationer and student nurses trained at NWFH, 1937-1946; Domestic Staff Registers, containing service records for domestic staff, including housekeeping, laundry and catering staff, 1887-1923.
Royal Free Hospital, Lawn Road (or North Western) Branch: In-patient Registers, 1965-1972; Patients Property Register, 1944-1962; Joint Consultative Staff Committee minutes, 1951-1954.

Records of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, including minutes and papers of the Board; National Hospital Reserve Sub-Committee; Establishment Committee; Medical Staffing Sub-Committee; Nursing Sub-Committee; Finance Committee; Finance Committee Investments Sub-Committee; Drugs Expenditure Sub-Committee; Medical Advisory Committee; Planning Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Building, Land and Works Sub-Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Clinical Research Sub-Committee; Mental Health Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Mental Health Sub-committee and Steering Committee.

North West Metropolitan Regional Committees including minutes and papers of the North West Metropolitan Area Nurse Training Committee; North West Metropolitan Area Nurse Training Committee Finance Sub-Committee; Joint Consultative Committee for Inner London Hospitals in the North West Metropolitan Hospital Region minutes and papers; Joint Working Group of the Metropolitan Joint Consultative Committees; North West Metropolitan Hospital Regional Staff Advisory Committee, and the Regional Staff Committee.

North West Thames Regional Health Authority minutes and Departmental Records, including papers of the Regional Centres for Specialised Treatment; Major Accidents Procedure; Joint Consultative Committee for Inner London Hospitals; Planning: Central London Area and Planning: Regional Joint Liaison Committee for transfer to new authorities.

National Hospital Service Reserve, including papers of Mrs Grieb, Regional Coordinating Officer comprising scrapbook and photographs.

The material focuses chiefly upon bibliography, comprising notes on writings about gymnastics and manipulative treatment, and Cyriax's collations of authors cited in various works on the subject. In addition to this there are some writings upon manipulative treatment itself and related issues (MSS.2001, 2006-2007), a syllabus of lectures to be delivered by Cyriax at the Central Institute for Swedish Gymnastics (MS.6054), writings on massage by authors other than Cyriax (MSS.6056-6059) and an acknowledgement by the Museum of Practical Geology for specimens presented by another member of the Cyriax family (MS.6060).

Scrapbooks of A B Hill, 1876-1932, mainly relating to his career in public health, containing newscuttings, programmes of events (especially dinners and conferences of societies concerned with public health and local affairs in the Birmingham area), and miscellaneous papers.

The 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).

Administrative records, photographs, miscellaneous records.

Papers of Alice Backes comprising St Giles Hospital certificate in Sick and Convalescent Cookery, 31 Mar 1930; London County Council St Giles Hospital certificate of training 1928-1931, 12 May 1931; General Nursing Council for England and Wales, certificate of registration, Oct 1931; Central Board of Midwives certificate 27 Feb 1932.
Also includes two lidded small silver trophy cups, of St Giles Hospital Nurses Tennis, engraved Consolation cup, 1932, A Backes', and1934, Consolation, won by A Backes'.

Photograph album belonging to Sister Edith M Lear, Guy's Hospital, containing black and white photographs of Guy's Hospital firm groups (including Lear), wards, patients, nursing staff, and portraits.
Also contains a number of loose photographs including group of nursing staff and men in military uniform, group of nursing staff, and images of Guy's Hospital.

St Francis Hospital nursing records including St Francis' Hospital - A complete Training School for Assistant Nurses [1958]; Record of [Nurses]Service Book, 1949-1956; Photographs of the hospital, [1960-1965].

Manuscript volume of Irene Rose Hasler titled `Sister tutor's lectures, 1929, Miss K Armstrong, Anatomy and Physiology' containing notes on lectures, with accompanying sketches, which have been annotated in red ink. Inserted are a number of duplicated notes and diagrams relating to physiology and treatment.

Papers of Mary P Kelly comprising letters of acceptance for nurse training at King's College Hospital, 24 Mar 1947, and 25 Apr 1947;
copies of printed examination question papers for the General Council of Nursing Final State Examination for the General Part of the Register, 7 Jun 1950; Borough Polytechnic King's College Nurses - Theory Examination (undated);
King's College Hospital School of Nursing prospectus (undated, post 1913) King's College Hospital regulations for nurses, Jan 1946; King's College Hospital regulations for the nursing staff with regard to the ordering, custody and administration of dangerous drugs and poisons, Apr 1949; pamphlet titled `Nurses' to be given to nurses on admission to the Training School containing a treatise on the Christian duties of nursing (undated); printed card containing a monthly order of prayer for King's College Hospital Chapel (undated);

King's College Hospital notice relating to the gradual introduction of equal pay for male and female nurses, Oct 1955;

printed copy of the Constitution of the King's College Hospital Nurses' League, Nov 1949; printed article `King's College Hospital Nurses League and badge of membership' (undated);

pamphlet A weighed diabetic diet, theline-ration' scheme', R D Lawrence, 1942 (reprinted 1949), and related leaflet `explanation to doctors';

newspaper cutting depicting members and patients in the department of gynaecological surgeon Sir William Gilliatt at King's College Hospital;

printed copy of King's College Hospital Gazette, Christmas 1950.

Papers of M Helen Lea comprising scrap book containing pictures of King's College Hospital, staff and buildings, visitors, wards, 1920s-1960s; and scrap book titled `High Elms, Kings College Hospital Preliminary Training School, Oct 1956', with accompanying letter and notes, 1983.

Small photograph album of Elsie M Parkinson containing images of King's College Hospital, nurses, staff, wards, patients, etc. Also includes some pencil sketches, rhymes and poems [1913-1919]. Most photographs have captions.

Papers of Barbara Rampton comprising:
record of lessons and proficiency in training undertaken at King's College Hospital (KCH), 1939;
printed rules of the General Nursing Council (GNC) for England and Wales, 1931;
receipts for GNC fees, 1940, 1942;
question papers for the GNC Preliminary Examination, and Preliminary State Examination, 8 Oct 1940; and the Final State Examination for the General part of the Register, 23 Sep 1942;
GNC printed Syllabus of subjects for examination for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1939; GNC Regulations for Conduct of Examinations, for Preliminary and Final Examinations, 1939;
KCH School of Nursing prospectus; printed KCH `Rules for the Nurses', Apr 1938;
receipt for payment of KCH Preliminary Training School fee, 9 Aug 1939;
copies of question papers for KCH Junior Nurses Examination, 1940; and KCH Examination on medicine and medical nursing, 17 Feb 1942.

Papers, correspondence, reports and official publications regarding the London Ambulance Service strike, disputes and select committees on the ambulance service, 1987-1995, collected by Nigel Spearing.

Papers, c1909-1976, of Sister Gladys Stephenson, comprising diary of journey to China, 1915; journals of visits to Korea and Peking, 1926, 1936 and undated; journal of her time in the internment camp, 1942-1945; diaries recording daily events, 1946-1971; long letter from Gladys Stephenson, 1945, from the Shanghai internment camp recounting her experiences, and typescript copies; manuscript and typescript accounts of a journey to Hong Kong, Malaya and the Holy Land, 1961; other typescript and manuscript notes, accounts, or addresses by Gladys Stephenson recounting her experiences, largely undated, including one relating to the great floods (1931); two photographs of a chapel used by the Methodist hospital, Hankow, and papers relating to a stained glass window, 1940; printed material on Christianity, missionary work and missionaries, nursing and training, and other aspects of life in China, including hospitals in Hankow, 1909-1976, largely dating, 1920s-1960s.

Records of the South East Thames Regional Health Authority, 1947-1995. This collection includes minutes, agendas and papers of the meetings of various Committees, including the Regional Health Authority, the Regional Health Authority Chairman, the Regional Hospital Board Finance Committee; Area Nurse Training Committee; Regional Team of Officers; Clinical Consultative Committee; Nursing Sub-Committee; Regional Medical Advisory Committee; Treasurer's Group; Cancer Committee; Corporate Advisory Team; Regional Management Team; Regional and Chief Nursing Officers; Legal Action Working Party; Regional Planning Group; Regional Programming Group; Capital Investment Group; Building Committee; Capital Executive Group; and Sub-Committees for various specialities including cardiology, dermatology, general practice, dental surgery, radiology, ophthalmology and so on.

Also annual statistical returns; financial accounts; maps and plans; papers of the Kent County Council Public Assistance Department; papers relating to buildings and maintenance; papers of study groups; papers relating to public health and other administrative papers.

Collection comprises photographs of both the ambulance train and the servicemen's hospital in Berkshire showing servicemen and nurses [including Eliza Wakelin]; and two letters regarding Miss Wakelin's health.

Records 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.

Executive Committee minute book of the Central St Pancras District Nursing Association. This volume was catalogued in 1974 by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The location of any further records is unknown.

Administrative records, Chaplain's records, patient records, nursing records, photographs and miscellaneous records.

Comprises: Administrative records; Estate and property records; Nursing records; Medical records; Pathology records; Radiography records; Nurses League records; Staff records; Operating theatre records.