Minutes of the board of management of the hospital covering 28 January 1858 to 12 April 1860. Manuscript meeting minutes with an alphabetically arranged index.
Meeting minutes of the board of management of the hospital between 27 July 1865 to 14 March 1867. Volume contains manuscript minutes of the meetings of the board and includes a front index arranged alphabetically. Volumes includes a loose enclosed draft first page of the meeting minutes for 27 July 1865.
Meeting minutes for the Hospital Board of Management dating from 11 December 1873 to 23 December 1875. The manuscript minutes are indexed and contain no inserts. The volume is entitled 'Royal Hospital for Incurables Board Minutes 1874".
Meeting minutes for the hospital board of management from 23 December 1884 to 12 May 1887. Manuscript meeting minutes with an alphabetically arranged front index.
Meeting minutes for the board of management for the hospital between 24 October 1889 and 27 November 1891. The volume contains manuscript meeting minutes which are indexed alphabetically.
Meeting minutes for the board of management for the hospital between 10 December 1891 and 10 November 1893. The volume contains manuscript meeting minutes which are indexed alphabetically. There are attached typescript enclosures relating to response to the Select Committee of the House of Lords, 1892 and annual reports.
Manuscript meeting minutes for the Hospital Board of Management dating from 23 June 1921-11 July 1929. The volume is indexed and also includes manuscript and typescript inserts.
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.
Hardbound copy of the bills of quantities for ward reorganisation produced by Devereux, Mitchell and Price Davies in partnership with Bertram Carter. The volumes contains an itemised schedule and cost for building work at the hospital, with appendix including floor plans and architectural drawings.
Typescript minutes of the authorised visitors committee, 1982-1991. Minutes include reports on patient welfare, Matron's report to the committee, general news and changes in hospital personale, such as new admissions and deaths.
Various reel to reel films, videocassettes and sound recordings, along with selected digitised copies of films relating to the hospital. These include promotional television appeals for the charity; events and visits from the Royal family, such as the Queen Elizabeth's visit to open Chatsworth Wing, 1978; clinical films showing patients undertake rehabilitative and leisure activities such as hydrotherapy and horseriding, and also recordings of radio shows which featured the Hospital.
Various artefacts relating to the history of the hospital and the West Lodge estate, Putney Heath. These can be broadly categorized as the following: house features and signs, including sample of 18th century clay flooring, marble colonnades and early twentieth century light switch; household utensils, such as engraved spoons; medical equipment, assistive technology and early wheelchair; branded lapel badges showing the change of names of the hospital and finally decorative gifts recieved by the hospital, including ornate cups and medals.
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).
