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Manuscript minutes of the House Committee dating from 18 June 1952 to 12 May 1954. Indexed.

Meeting minutes of the hospital board of management dating from January 1939 to 31 May 1954. The volume is indexed and includes typescript annotated inserts of the members of the board and the dates of when they joined. Later annotations refer to the addition of new board members and removal of members no longer serving. The volume contains various typescript inserts including documents relating to the proposal to join the National Health Service and the Hospital's legal case against joining, 1946-1950; reports from sub-committees relating to staff salaries and re-organising the governance structure of the hospital.

Admission case book with entries numbered 13501-14500.

Register of complaints received regarding staff at the hospital, arranged chronologically. The register has an index and also includes loose staff employment slips. The register contains the name of the staff member, position, address, date of commencement and leaving date and reason and comments regarding the complaints. File includes printed filled in employment forms for domestic staff and a typescript letter regarding the salary rate for male attendants written by R M Villiers, Secretary to the Hospital, dated 29 January 1954.

Papers relating to newspaper advertised appeals and television and radio appeals including a copy of a pamphlet of a radio broadcast appeal on 27 August 1939 by Mr Geoffrey Gilbey, and a review of some of the replies received by him from contributors; and a printed advertisement in The Spectator, a current affairs magazine, dated 12 June 1953, featuring a fundraising notice for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables on the back page.

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

Red volume included a pocket containing street maps of regions of London.

Photographic album of images of the hospital, taken between 1946-1950, presented as a gift to former secretary, J G Pitcher (1946-1951). Album includes a typescript note, dated December 1951 from [Committee board] to J G Pilcher regarding the gift of the album. The letter is signed by 31 signatories.

Album includes black and white photographs of the exterior building of the hospital, including an aerial photograph, along with images of staff and patients including a garden fete in the hospital gardens.

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

Correspondence, precis of meetings and reports, memorandum, legal papers, National Health Service Bill and press cuttings relating to the creation of the NHS and the hospital's arbitration case to be excluded from the national service. File includes correspondence with other voluntary hospitals for long-term chronic patients, such as British Hospital and Home for Incurables, Jewish Home for Incurables and The Northern Counties Hospital for Incurables, along with British Hospitals Association, local board of the Health and Home Office. Also includes a report on the exclusion of the Lingfield Epileptic Colony in 1949 and Precis of remarks made by the Chairman of the Voluntary Hospitals Committee for London at meeting held on 1 March 1944 regarding White Paper.

Annual publication containing a fundraising appeal and a list of subscribers to the hospital. Each volume provides a list of senior staff and board members of the charity, constitution, appeal for funding, information about providing a financial contribution, a record of the previous years election results, a list of gifts and bequests received in the previous year and a list of subscribers, in alphabetical order. This list provides the names of the subscribers and their addresses, the number of votes that they held, the date when they began subscribers and whether they were an annual or life subscriber.

Early appeals, 1858 to 1901, include a copy of the annual report and accounts.

Manuscript minutes of the House Committee dating from 9 January 1946 to 5 May 1948.