- GB 3544 RHN-AD-02-01-18
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- 1968-1975
Admission case book with entries numbered 15501-16000.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
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Admission case book with entries numbered 15501-16000.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
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.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Copy of the 1975 presentation film for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables (RHHI). Film includes narrated sound track, though the audio quality is fairly poor, with an audible background crackle throughout the recording. Track duration: 05:54.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
RHHI Presentation Film, October 1975
Copy of the presentation film for the RHHI (Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables). This version of the film is identical to the film(archive ref: GB 3544 RHN-AV-1-2) but the sound quality has been slightly better preserved. Track length: 05:54.
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Manuscript notebook listing requests for leave from senior hospital staff (steward, matron). Entries are approved by the signature of the Chairman.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Copy of the 1975 presentation film for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables (RHHI).
This film is silent film and possibly is of the raw footage collected for the presentation. The film includes additional footage shots of the construction of the Chatsworth Wing and footage of the John Howard's Convalescent Home in Brighton, which the hospital had recently taken over. Track duration: 53:23.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Copy of the 1975 presentation film for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables (RHHI). Film is silent and unlike the soundtracked copies includes a mixture of footage which is not in its final order, including initial additional footage of John Howard's Convalescent Home, Brighton. Track duration: 10:16.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Double page illustrated newsletter for the hospital, including article of Queen Elizabeth II's visit to open the Chatsworth Wing on 19 May 1976.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
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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Register of patients.
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Minutes of the Finance Committee
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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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Minutes of the Financial Committee
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Minutes of the House Committee
Typescript minutes of the House Committee.
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Bound meeting minutes of the Hospital's Committee Board, who governed the charity. The Board met every fortnight and would make all decisions in relates to policy. When the charity first started the Chairman of the Board was the Treasurer until 1911 when an independent office of chairman was created. The Secretary (now Chief Executive) would prepare the agenda and circulate the minutes to the other committee members.
Committee members for the Board of Management were initially composed of businessmen working in the City of London and later retired military service men, with usually no less than twenty members present at one time.
The meeting minutes are predominantly handwritten but become typescript in the mid 20th century and usually include various inserts of papers discussed during meetings as well as letters and statements transcribed into the minutes.
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Meeting minutes of the hospital board of management dating from 30 January 1967 to 23 January 1980. The minutes are indexed and also include a list of board members and when they were first elected.
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Printed information leaflets about the hospital
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Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability