Report from the select committee of the House of Lords regarding conditions of hospitals within the London area, which included a report on the Royal Hospital for Incurables. The report was critical of several aspects in which the hospital was governed namely the lack of a women's committee, full-time medical attendant and qualified nurses and the limited visiting times for seeing patients. The Hospital responded by establishing its own internal enquiry which resulted in a published response to the report in 1893.
Volumes of official visitors to the hospital, 1899-2010, including signatures of visiting members of the Royal Family including Queen Elizabeth II; Diana, Princess of Wales and Charles, Prince of Wales.
Files containing the original lease for the purchase of the central London office for the RHI at Queen Victoria Street in 1898, and conveyance papers for the sale of land at West Hill to Wandsworth Council in 1964. Files also include trust deeds and settlements relating to the Lopes Chaplain Endowment Fund and the Waldo Sibthorpe bequest for the De Lancey Lowe room. Note: the lease for the original purchase of West Hill in 1863 is currently missing.
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.
Christmas appeal, 'Cured by an Incurable, a tale' by Rev P.B. Power, M.A., illustrated by Edmund Fitzpatrick, second edition, features an account of a doctor who takes two of his patients to the hospital where they are cured, including comic illustrations. Same as previous year's appeal but the author is shown not under his pen name.
Booklet, Brain damage and psychiatric disability' by Professor W A Lishman. Booklet No.1/83. Reprinted from a seminar on 'The Problems of Overlapping Psychiatric and Physical Handicap; held on 17 July 1982.
Various reports from sub-committees, including admissions, general purpose, staff accommodation, private patients, salaries and wages, appeals, garden and assembly room renovation.
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.
Board meeting minutes for the hospital from March 1867 to January 1869, including index in alphabetical order. The front of the volume contains a leather case with various manuscript documents, such as agendas and meeting notes.
Booklet, 'A Progressive approach to long-term residential care for physically handicapped people in an integrating society' by the Development Trust for the Young Disabled. Booklet No. 1/84.
Meeting minutes for the board of management between 25 February 1869 to 4 July 1871. Volume contains manuscript meeting minutes of the board, which are indexed alphabetically.
