Newsletter, 'Volunteering at the Royal Hospital'
- GB 3544 RHN-PU-01-17
- File
- [2000]
Internally produced newsletter for volunteers at the hospital.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
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Newsletter, 'Volunteering at the Royal Hospital'
Internally produced newsletter for volunteers at the hospital.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Quarterly hospital newsletter for patients, their relatives and friends. Incomplete run between 2000-2002.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Hospital newsletter, 'Putney in Focus'. File includes a review and observation about the contents of the newsletter, no date.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Brochure for the Royal Hospital & Home, Putney.
Brochure includes inner sleeve with brochures and leaflets regarding the transitional living unit, leaflets for John Howard's House and other leaflets relating to types of injuries.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Papers relating to the change of name of the hospital
Correspondence, memoranda, board minutes and reports relating to the change of the hospital's name from Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables to an alternative name which no longer includes the term 'incurables', which had become "increasingly problematic". File includes correspondence between the hospital and representatives of the Privy Purse, HRH Prince Charles, and members of the public regarding changing the name; an annotated list of alternative names drawn up; report on the case for changing the charity's name; notes from a meeting with J Walter Thompson, the marketing and communications firm, regarding name change, 1987. File also includes a letter from HRH Prince Charles congratulating the Development Trust for the Young Disabled new appeal for a 45 bed unit in November 1986.
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"From one to seven" by Joan Gandan
Biographical account of the life of a patient at the hospital, Joan Gandan.
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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.
Internal magazine, 'Journal', including stories, poems, cartoons and jokes by staff and patients.
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Photographs of the Cathcart Ward under construction
Colour photographs of construction work of Cathcart Ward and group photograph of three unnamed men in an office.
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Papers relating to Lopes bequest
Papers relating to Chaplain's Fund, a trust fund set up by the Rt Hon Sir Massey Lopes Bt (1818-1908), a member of the Hospital Board and Conservative politician, to generate income to contribute towards the cost of chaplaincy services available at the RHN. In 1907, there was a high court case brought by Lopes against the hospital for the misuse of these funds by the Hospital Board.
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Brochures and leaflets relating to services provided by the hospital, including information pack about the RHHP with specific leaflets relating to specialist care and treatment provided for certain groups of patient e.g. chronic and progressive neurological disorders and a brochure for the 'Transitional Living Unit', c. 1992.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Colour photographs and negatives of building work of new rehabilitation wing and transitional living unit on the hospital site, c.1983-1990. File includes early images of hydrotherapy pool and gymnasium.
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Chaplain's report to the House Committee
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Departmental papers of the Fundraising Department
Correspondence, memorandum, reports, grant applications and promotional material relating to the Hospital's fundraising department, these include: a memorandum from 22 December 1993 regarding the need for improving hospital fundraising; applications for the role of fundraising manager, with attached curriculum vitae; grant application for the National Lotteries Charity Board, 1996; details of the fundraising campaign for the cloistered garden for the Hospital, and planning for the official opening, and letters relating to individual gifts received by the hospital.
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Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables presentation film
Colour presentation films for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables. The narrated films provide an overview of the activities and facilities available to patients and includes soundbites from patients. The films shows a typical patient bedroom and common areas of the hospital, such as the cafeteria, Assembly Room and gardens, and some of the activities and services available to patients, including: physiotherapy, occupational therapy, art and pottery classes, furniture making, a patient using a possum typewriter (which was operated with a mouth piece), music therapy and the work undertaken by patients at 'The Factory', where patients were paid to undertaken simple manufacturing tasks for a small income. Finally, the video ends with plans for the new Chatsworth Wing at the hospital, which initially designed to house young disabled residents.
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Annual reports for the charity, 1905-present, which typically include a financial statement, a list of board of management members and senior staff, donation details and photographs and illustrations of the hospital. The reports were published as a single pamphlet or booklet, some of the early reports have been bound together into hardboard volumes. Reports dating from 1858-1901 were not published separately and can be found within the subscription books (archive ref: RHN/FU/2/2). The reports may also be found within the reports of the general meeting volumes (archive ref: RHN/AD/1/1).
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Photographs of exterior of John Howard House, Brighton
Images from different angles of John Howard House in Brighton
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Lantern slides of the Royal Hospital for the Incurables
Coloured magic lantern slides of the hospital and its grounds, including views of main building, out-houses and interiors. The images are a mixture of coloured illustrations depicting daily life in the hospital and early hand painted photographs.
The slides were created by "E G Woods, 1-2 Queen Street, Cheapside, London". A typescript index of the slides is included within the box.
E G Woods
Photographs of construction of Chatsworth Wing
Colour and black and white photographs of construction of Chatsworth ward in construction and finished empty wards. Also includes architectural drawing of the ward, interior shots of rooms within ward, including day room and bedrooms and exterior shots of the ward.
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