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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.

Variety of clinical records including meeting minutes and reports for various committees such as the Matron's report to the House Committee, records of the Chief Medical Officer and minutes of the Medical Committee; medical case notes of in-patients, c.1900-1945; papers relating to ward management including minutes of patient committee; papers relating to nurse training and teaching at the hospital, including records of the Nursing School, 1955-1975, and records from various clinical departments including dentistry and wheelchair department.

Volume containing manuscript list of official visitors to the hospital who visited in 1900 to 1901.

Meeting minutes for the Hospital Board of Management dating from 8 July 1900 to 20 November 1902. The volume contains manuscript meeting minutes with a front index arranged alphabetically. The volume also includes the annual report for 1899-1900 and 1900-1901 pasted into the volume and loose manuscript and typescript inserts, 1902-1937, including 'Rules for the Appointment of a Medical Officer'.

Minutes of House Committee dating from 1 August 1900 to 29 January 1902. The handwritten minutes are indexed.

Admission case book with entries numbered 8501-9500.

Christmas appeal, in the form of an account of visiting pensioners [hospital out-patients] in the English county of Kent.

Manuscript list of official visitors to the hospital.

Minutes of the House Committee dating from 5 February 1902 to 25 November 1903. The handwritten minutes which are indexed. Includes insert of a printed constitution of the hospital after front cover.

Meeting minutes for the Hospital Board of Management from January 1903 to June 1911. Manuscript board minutes including various typescript inserts including printed rules for the hospital; papers relating to the resignation of the hospital chaplain; sub committee minutes and newspaper clippings of hospital advertisements.

Manuscript list of official visitors to the hospital.

Minutes of House Committee dating from 2 December 1903 to 10 January 1906. The minutes are handwritten are indexed.

Christmas appeal, 'A Royal Jubilee by G.H.S.' commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the hospital. Includes photographs of the interior rooms of the hospital.

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).

Minutes of the House Committee dating from 24 January 1906 to 18 December 1907. The minutes are handwritten and indexed and has two typescript enclosures including a medical report on whether an admitted patients was actually 'incurable' and whether he should remain at the hospital, 1906 (p79).

This series contains photographic images, negatives and mounted slides. Photographic material, c.1906-present, contain images of the building and grounds, staff and patients, publicity images of services, events and VIP visits.

Minutes of the House Committee dating from 1 January 1908 to 1 September 1909. Handwritten minutes which are indexed. The volume includes several enclosures includes letters received and reports on the garden and building work.