Address book of Mrs Whitecross, former Head of the Authorised Visitor's committee for the Hospital. The book contains a list of patients in the hospital, visitors and other hospital personnel contacts. These entries include details of which ward the patients resided and any changes to their status, it also lists which patients each visitor saw, and include loose attachments including a memorandum inviting Miss Whitecross to speak about the work of the committtee to the combined medical staff meeting, 1984.
Correspondence, memoranda, board minutes and reports relating to the change of the hospital's name from Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables to an alternative name which no longer including the term 'incurables', which had become "increasingly problematic". File includes correspondence between the Hospital and representatives of the Privy Purse, the Charles, Prince of Wales and members of the public regarding changing the name; an annotated list of alternative names drawn up; report on the case for changing the charity's name; notes from a meeting with J Walter Thompson, the marketing and communications firm, regarding name change, 1987. File also includes a letter from HRH Prince Charles congratulating the Development Trust for the Young Disabled new appeal for a 45 bed unit in November 1986.
Booklet, 'The care of disabled people: residence or residential care- the need for assessment and classification' held at The Drapers' Hall, London, 10-11 October 1985. Booklet No. 2/85.
Volumes containing minutes of the House Committee, a weekly committee meeting whose purpose was to make decisions regarding the internal administration of the hospital and its patients. The committee was initially chaired by the Treasurer until 1911 before being replaced by the Chairman and the board would include the Steward, Matron and Chief Medical Officer.
Quarterly magazine produced for patients, staff and supporters, including news, information, stories, poems and cartoons and schedules for forthcoming activities at the hospital. The contents of the magazine was created by staff and patients with occasional excerpts from other publications such as the Wandsworth Borough News.
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.
Booklet, 'The Dynamic approach to the residential care of disabled people in an integrating society', an International (EEC) seminar held in London on 10 April 1984. Booklet No 2/84.
Insurance valuation sheets relating to property held by the Hospital. Items listed relate to longcase clocks at the hospital from 18th-19th century. Estimates carried out by Camerer Cuss & Co.
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.
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.
File relating details of funeral arrangements for former patients of the Royal Hospital within Putney Vale Cemetery. File includes certificates for right of burial in the cemetery and correspondence and memorandum relating to the burial of the former patient, Ivan Dolphin Clayton, relating to his burial arrangements.
