- 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
Minutes of the House building and Estates Committee
Incomplete series of minute books of the House Building Estate Committee dating from 1865 to 1879. Manuscript meeting minutes for the weekly committee, which discussed matters chiefly relating to building and household furnishing costs for the hospital, as well as discussing household appointments, new admissions and deaths, patient requests and complaints, medical reports and other activities at the hospitals such as concerts and religious services.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Quarterly hospital newsletter for patients, relatives, carers and supporters. Incomplete run between 2002-2005
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
A monthly newsletter for staff at the hospital. Incomplete run of issues, No. 37-68 (with gaps)
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Hospital newsletter, 'Putney in Focus'. File includes a review and observation about the contents of the newsletter, no date.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Quarterly newsletter for supporters of the hospital. Incomplete run of editions, 2002-2005.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Quarterly hospital newsletter for patients, their relatives and friends. Incomplete run between 2000-2002.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Newsletter, 'Volunteering at the Royal Hospital'
Internally produced newsletter for volunteers at the hospital.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
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.
Papers relating to changes in accounting procedures
Papers relating to changes in accounting procedures, including memorandum, correspondence, reports and lists.
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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.
Papers relating to histories of the Royal Hospital
Chapters relating to the history of the Royal Hospital written by Dr Ian J Shaw, 2004.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Papers relating to Lopes bequest
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.
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Papers relating to the change of name of the hospital
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 includes the term 'incurables', which had become "increasingly problematic". File includes correspondence between the hospital and representatives of the Privy Purse, HRH Prince Charles, 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.
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Papers relating to the publication of the book, Victorian Incurables
Electronic and typescript correspondence, notes, photographic prints and negatives, mounted 35 mm slides and captions. File chiefly relates to the publication of the book, Victorian Incurables: a history of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability by professor Gordon Cook. The correspondence relate to finding a publishing house for the book and editorial changes to the book.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
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.
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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.
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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