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Manuscript minutes of the House Committee, dated 23 July 1913-31 March 1915. The volume is indexed and also includes manuscript and typescript inserts chiefly relating to garden reports by Walter P Wright.

Manuscript minutes of the house committee dating from 28 December 1927 to 23 January 1929. Minutes are indexed and include various enclosures including a petition from patients to have the 'wireless' (radio) on late and letter of complaint about a patient at the hospital.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee dating from 30 January 1929 to 26 February 1930. Minutes are indexed with various enclosures, including a request from a patient to visit Germany for treatment including a newspaper clipping of the of the German doctor known as the 'Wizard' of Glaspach.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee dating from 22 April 1931 to 13 July 1932. Indexed and minutes include multiple enclosures including correspondence with Buckingham Palace about arranging a visit by the Queen, 1931.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee dating from 15 May 1935 to 3 June 1936. Minutes are indexed and include various enclosed committee papers.

Manuscript minutes for the House Committee dating from 10 June 1936 to 7 July 1937. Minutes are indexed and include various committee enclosures.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee dating from 12 May 1948 to 14 June 1950. Indexed.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee dating from 28 June 1950 to 11 June 1952.

Minutes of the House Committee from 27 August 1958 to 20 December 1961. Typescript minutes with alphabetical index.

Typescript minutes of the House Committee.

Bound volumes containing reports produced by the authorised visitor's committee. The reports relate to the condition of the hospital and general services in the hospital, along with the occasional comment from patients. The visits happened irregularly initially over the course of the year, with the reports being a few comments but developed into a more thorough analysis of the services in the hospital. The reports are a mixture of handwritten reports and typed, stuck-in, reports from 1938 onwards. Each report is signed by the visitor.

The book give a description of candidates, known as 'cases' who applied for home or extra relief from the charity. The volume contains case numbers 1-500 and dates from 12 October 1854 to 8 September 1859. As the book records 'case' who were admitted into the hospital, the book was regularly updated primarily to record deaths but also contact details of family members or supporters or other remarks. Includes a letter received from an 'extra' patient named Eliza Jules, dated 8 November [1895], regarding a change in her income, and some later notes written in ballpoint pen about early cases at the hospital, c. 1990s.