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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.

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.

Register of appointed domestic staff at the hospital, arranged alphabetically by surname. Entries include surname, forename, date appointed, salary, position and sometimes date of birth and leaving date.

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.

Letters recieved by the Hospital Board of Management, including letters from Florence Nightingale.

Admission case book with entries numbered 7501-8500.

Publications produced by the Charities Aid Foundation, a charity established to help facilitate and distribute funding to charities, includes annual report and statistical reports of the charity sector.

Colour photographs and negatives of building work of new rehabilitation wing and transitional living unit on the hospital site, c.1983-1990. File includes early images of hydrotherapy pool and gymnasium.

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".

Double page illustrated newsletter for the hospital, including article of Queen Elizabeth II's visit to open the Chatsworth Wing on 19 May 1976.