Bound volumes containing reports produced by the authorised visitor's committee. The reports relate to the condition of the hospital and general services in the hospital, along with the occasional comment from patients. The visits happened irregularly initially over the course of the year, with the reports being a few comments but developed into a more thorough analysis of the services in the hospital. The reports are a mixture of handwritten reports and typed, stuck-in, reports from 1938 onwards. Each report is signed by the visitor.
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.
Meeting minutes for the House Committee dating from 4 October 1893 to 19 December 1894. The volume contains an index and some inserts including a typescript document listing complaints made by a patient, Miss Dunne, against Matron Linicke and Divisonal Nurse Cassidy, with their replies, January 1894 (p77-80).
Board minutes for the Royal Hospital for Incurables from November 1893 to December 1895. The volume is indexed and contains two enclosed annual reports and accounts for the years, 1893-1894 and 1894 to 1895.
Meeting minutes for the Hospital Board of Management dating from December 1896 to March 1898. The manuscript meeting minutes are indexed and contains enclosed typescript annual reports and accounts for the years, 1895-1896 and 1896-1897.
Manuscript report of the 45th annual general meeting of the Hospital held at the Cannon Street Hotel, London on Friday 25 November 1898. The chair was Herbert John Allcroft. The transcript includes a lengthy discussion of the inclusion of female members on the Hospital's Board of Management which was eventually dismissed.
Board minutes for the Royal Hospital for Incurables from March 1898 to January 1900. The volume includes an index and some inserts including a typescript copy of the annual report and accounts for 1898 to 1899.
Christmas appeal by William Scriven, illustrated by and Lancelot Speed and Godfrey Hall. Appeal in the form of letters about visiting pensioners [hospital out-patients] in Worcestershire, Shropshire and Merseyside and the patients from the hospital visiting the hospital's holiday home in St Leonard's on the Sea in East Sussex.
Manuscript report of the 45th annual general meeting of the Hospital held at the Cannon Street Hotel, London on Friday 24 November 1899. The chair was Herbert John Allcroft. The transcript includes a lengthy discussion of the inclusion of female members on the Hospital's Board of Management, which was previously raised the previous year and was also eventually dismissed.
Christmas appeal by William Scriven. Illustrations by Lancelot Speed and Godfrey Hall. The appeal takes the form of an account of visiting pensioners [hospital out-patients] in the West Country, including a loose reprint (4pp) entitled ' Sunday evening at Putney', reprinted from the 'Daily News', 17 November 1900.
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.
