- GB 3544 RHN-AD-03-3
- File
- 1938-1966
Registers of domestic stock such as linen and kitchenware.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
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Registers of domestic stock such as linen and kitchenware.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Alphabetical list of patient addresses, ordered by initial admission into hospital. Includes their last known address, address of friends/relatives, date of birth and religion. Patients listed by date of admission from 1890s to 1970. Third volume includes a typescript contact list of people to contact of various religious faiths and philosophies of life.
Correspondence, precis of meetings and reports, memorandum, legal papers, National Health Service Bill and press cuttings relating to the creation of the NHS and the hospital's arbitration case to be excluded from the national service. File includes correspondence with other voluntary hospitals for long-term chronic patients, such as British Hospital and Home for Incurables, Jewish Home for Incurables and The Northern Counties Hospital for Incurables, along with British Hospitals Association, local board of the Health and Home Office. Also includes a report on the exclusion of the Lingfield Epileptic Colony in 1949 and Precis of remarks made by the Chairman of the Voluntary Hospitals Committee for London at meeting held on 1 March 1944 regarding White Paper.
Completed voting form for the May 1945 election for the Royal Hospital
Photo album of photographs of the hospital
Photographic album of images of the hospital, taken between 1946-1950, presented as a gift to former secretary, J G Pitcher (1946-1951). Album includes a typescript note, dated December 1951 from [Committee board] to J G Pilcher regarding the gift of the album. The letter is signed by 31 signatories.
Album includes black and white photographs of the exterior building of the hospital, including an aerial photograph, along with images of staff and patients including a garden fete in the hospital gardens.
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History of the Royal Hospital and quotations from historical records
Typescript notes and unpublished history of the Royal Hospital.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Printed information leaflets about the hospital
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Circulars sent by Appeals Secretary
Papers relating to fundraising appeals sent out on behalf of the hospital, 1950-1980. These primarily includes circulated letters requsting donations from the public, as well as more targeted appeals to certain groups such as universities, schools and local sport clubs. Papers also include circulars relating to broadcast appeals for the charity by the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), which were delivered by public figures such as John Betjeman (1959), Michael Flanders (1961) and Godfrey Winn (1965).
Crockery and Hardware Stockbook
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Papers relating to changes in accounting procedures
Papers relating to changes in accounting procedures, including memorandum, correspondence, reports and lists.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Royal Hospital for Incurables London County Committee
Meeting agenda and minutes, annual reports and publications for the Hospital's London County Committee.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Programmes for fundraising events
Programmes for fundraising events for the hospital, these include: Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables garden party on 20 June 1959; 'The Silver Jubilee Ball' held in Wandsworth on 22 April 1977; 'The Forget-me-not Ball' held at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon, 3 March 1978; Musical concert by Julian Lloyd Webber and Gordon Back, Fishmonger's Hall, London, 1997.
Various reports from sub-committees, including admissions, general purpose, staff accommodation, private patients, salaries and wages, appeals, garden and assembly room renovation.
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Aerial photographs of the Royal Hospital
Photograph of Putney Heath featuring the Royal Hospital, including grounds. On the back of the photograph is written 'British Crown Copyright Reserved. Sortie No. FSL 6641/6 Negative No. 0134. Restricted.'.
British Crown Copyright
Papers relating to funeral arrangements for former patients
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.
Photographs of new ambulance outside reception
Photos of an ambulance outside the main entrance, c. 1970
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Register of patient deaths and discharges
Register of deaths of patients from April 1973 to March 2000. Entries include name of the patient, date admitted, case book number, whether they are inmate or pensioner and date of death. Later entries also include additional information of type of care they received, name of hospital ward and funding authorities.
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Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables presentation film
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.
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