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• Draft typescript talks: ‘Inhalation anaesthesia – the European scene’ (nd); ‘The first anaesthetics in St George’s Hospital, London’ by D.D.C. Howat, (nd, c. 1960s-1970s
• Manuscript rules and regulations relating to anaesthetics, including 'Regulations for the Anaesthetists' (3 copies, 1896) and 'The Teaching Duties of the Senior Anaesthetist' (6 copies), 1894
• Enquiries relating to anaesthetics, 1990, with attached photocopied articles ‘List of operations with ether at St George’s Hospital’ (from ‘On the inhalation of the vapour ether’ by John Snow, 1847); ‘History of anaesthetics (with special reference to their introduction at St George’s Hospital)’ by G.A. Clarkson (St George’s Hospital Gazette, 1894); copy from unnamed newspaper article ‘Surgical operations without pain’

• ‘London Teachers of Anatomy: A Retrospect’ by Charles Hawkins (reprint from The Lancet, 27 Sep 1884)

Papers relating to various anniversary celebrations, including

• 250th anniversary of St George's Hospital, including exhibition catalogue; tickets and invitations; programmes and schedules; correspondence; notes on finances; notes on exhibitions by various departments, 1982-1983
• Minutes of meetings of the 250th Anniversary Exhibition Sub-Committee and related correspondence
• Silver Jubilee printed programme, 1935
• Order of service for St George’s Hospital bi-centenary commemoration, 1933
• Invitation to the opening of St George’s Hospital and Medical School by Her Majesty The Queen, 1980
• 'London Calling' magazine, including article ‘St George’s Hospital’ by Ruth Randall, 1979
• Photographs of Christmas pantomime by St George’s Hospital Dramatic Society, rowing events and St George’s Hospital at the time of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation and related correspondence, 1953-2002

Documents relating to the history of Atkinson Morley’s

• Notes on the history of Atkinson Morley’s and its ward names, c.1980
• Notes and copies of ‘A History of The Atkinson Morley’s Hospital 1869-1995’ by Terry Gould and David Uttley, 1997
• Photocopy of Atkinson Morley’s will and transcript, 1858)
• Certified copy of death of Atkinson Morley 1858 (1981)
• Letter from Terry Gould to the dean of the medical school, Prof Asscher, regarding Atkinson Morley’s bequathment, 1988
• Printed articles and photocopies relating to CT scanning and Godfrey Hounsfield
• Schedule for thanksgiving service in honour of Wylie McKissock, 1994

Reports and publications

• Annual report of St George’s Hospital, and of Atkinson Morley’s Convalescent Hospital’, 1894
• Copy of rules for nurses and probationers, 1940
• Typescript list of ‘Selected publications from the neurosurgical department of St George’s Hospital at the Atkinson Morley Hospital, since 1948’, c.1950s
• Nursing prospectus with blank application form, c.1980

Photographs

• Photograph of the sports pavillion and photocopied photographs of the nursing home at Possil House, nd, c. 1970s-1980s

Building plans

• Building plans for Atkinson Morley Wing, 1998
• Building plans for Atkinson Morley’s Convalescent Hospital, nd, ?c.1960s

• Survey of Bolingbroke Hospital, including photographs of the site, 1979
• Invitation to the Bolingbroke Hospital Farewell Party, 2008
• Photograph of the hospital, 1975
• Documents and correspondence relating to the hospital and its closure, 1970s
• Notes relating to the history of Bolingbroke by Terry Gould; photocopies of articles and notes relating to the history of Bolingbroke Hospital, c.1989
• Advertisement for the hospital, nd, ?c.1920s
• Programme for Bolingbroke centenary event, 1980
• Annual reports of the Bolingbroke Hospital, 1926, 1929, 1940
• Planning documents for the occupational therapy department / Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Area Health Authority, 1981
• ‘Bolingbroke Hospital: Its Story’ by Walter G. Bell (printed leaflet including photographs), c.1930s

• Articles (some photocopied) and memoirs relating to Brodie, including
  • Partial biography of Brodie, n.d. (c.1860s)
  • Bound leaflet ‘Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie’ by Arthur Rocyn Jones, 1954
  • ‘Sir Benjamin Brodie, F.R.S’ by William R. Le Fanu, 1964 (reprint article from ‘Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London’)
  • ‘Ether used to produce insensibility in 1821’ by K. Bryn Thomas, 1962 (reprint article from ‘British Journal of Anaesthesia)
  • ‘Sir Benjamin Brodie: his bell-glass, and the story of the half-sovereign’ by D.D.C. Howat, 1993 (reprint article from ‘Journal of Medical Biography’)
• Enquiries relating to Brodie, 1954-1995
• Photographs of Brodie, the bust of Brodie and a teaching room

• Draft article ‘Early days of pacing at St George’s Hospital, London’ by Aubrey Leatham and related correspondence
• Reprint of ‘New Invention: An Improved Stethoscope’ by Aubrey Leatham, originally published in The Lancet, 1958
• Notes on the history of pacing at St George’s by Aubrey Leatham and related correspondence, 1999
• Photograph from ‘Curso de Cardiologia’, including Aubrey Leatham, 1966
• CD titled ‘Cardiac Department’
• Photograph of the Queen’s visit to St George’s, 1962
• Photographs (?Aubrey Leatham; John Parker; John Camm)
• Obituary of Michael John Davies, 2003
• Print out of photograph thumbnails featuring people from the Cardiac Department

Around the edge are small images of expedition members and the Terra Nova and an engraving of a British Ensign surrounded by a wreath. The rest of the paper appears complete within the locked cabinet and contains other photographs and articles about the expedition.

• Articles and notes (photocopies, reprints) relating to Blossom, including
  ‘Jenner’s Cowskin’ by Ruth Richardson (The Lancet), 2000;
  transcript of ‘Jenner’s First Cow’s Horns Discovered in Worcester’ (Berrow’s Worcester Journal), 1924, noting that the hide at St George’s has wooden horns;
  ‘Just an old cow-hide...’ by Stephen D. Elek (St George’s Hospital Gazette), 1975;
  ‘Campaign to save Blossom’ (Round the Water Trough blog), 2007;
  'Where now brown cow?’ (The Times correspondence; Richard Aspin, Susan Gove, Nicola LeFanu) c.1999;
  'Dr Jenner’s cow’ (The Times correspondence; Robin Otter), 1999
• Correspondence relating to the hide and horns, c.1976-2004

• Letter from Crisp to Dr Bellamy, 14 Dec 1995
• Signed copy of article ‘Poetic insights into depression and the sleeping mind’, 1995
• Correspondence and documents relating to River Wandle, referring to photographs of the river taken by Crisp (not enclosed), 1991-1997

Souvenir programme for ‘The Lady with a Lamp’, a film about Florence Nightingale, in aid of The Royal College of Nursing Educational Fund, 1951

• Notes and photocopies on the history of the Fountain Hospital from the ‘Fountain’, 1949-1960
• Booklet on ‘The Fountain’ (Group of hospitals-Illustrated), nd, c. 1940s-1950s
• Proposed plan of development of the site, 1961

A copy of printed newsletter ‘In touch: St George’s Healthcare’, Issue 45, Dec 1998, including an article by Terry Gould on St George’s ghosts

• Leaflet ‘St George’s Hospital: Standing Orders of the Board of Governors’, nd, c. 1950s
• Facsimile of the List of Governors and Subscribers to St George’s Hospital, 1733-1833

Newsletter ‘The Resident’, Nos 1-2, Nov-Dec 1992 and Mar-Apr 1993

• Newsletter ‘St George’s Improvement Fund’, a fund to ‘improve the external and internal environment of both St George’s Hospital and St George’s Hospital Medical School, through landscaping, art and sculpture’, 1994
• Meeting minutes, nd, c. 1994
• Notes on project plans

• Articles about Jesty, including ‘The Original Vaccine Inoculator’ (reprint from ‘A Medical Bulletin’, 1954); ‘The First Vaccinator’ (1981), ‘Doctor Jenner and Mister Jesty’ (World Medicine, 1979); ‘Dorset farmer who was early pioneer of vaccination for smallpox’ (The Times, 1962) and related correspondence, photographs of Jesty’s grave, postcards and other memorabilia

Publications, lists and reports

• Minutes of Council meetings, 1901-1921
• Inventory of the library, 1958
• Rules, nd, c. 1960s
• Librarian’s report, 1966
• St George’s Hospital Medical School Library Bulletins and other lists of accessions and periodicals, 1966-1968
• Development plans, 1960s-1970s
• Advertising leaflet of Balmforth Library Systems, with images of St George’s Library, c. 1977
• Library fact sheet, 1978
• Figures of accommodation facilities, nd, c. 1980s

Documents relating to St George’s and the library’s history

• Minutes of a meeting of the St George’s Pictorial History Working Party and related correspondence, 1983-1984

• Copies of articles on the library in the St George’s Gazette and a partial copy of a thesis on London medical libraries featuring St George’s by Rosslyn M. Nicholas, 1974

• ‘The historical development of St George’s Library, with an evaluation of the effect of such development on the library’s present state and policy’ by Angela Perrett, 1980

• Copy of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts report on the manuscripts and library records at St George’s Hospital Medical School Library by Sonia P. Anderson and related correspondence, 1973

• Postcard featuring the library

• Photographs and correspondence relating to busts held in the library, 1948-1970s

• Correspondence relating to ‘Affaire Gamgee’, with reminders of unreturned library books, 1890

Correspondence, reports and administrative documents

• Correspondence relating to raising of student fees, 1902
• SGHMS Council ‘Report of a Committee on the position of the School’, 1902
• Extract from lease regarding the insurance of the medical school, nd, ?c.1900
• ‘Confidential report of sub-committee appointed to consider the present position of the Medical School and its prospects’ (With note: ‘undated. Found loose in safe 1/4/69), c.1900
• Correspondence from various students regarding the Laking prize, 1928-1929
• Outline of costs on redevelopment in Tooting, 1952-1961
• Photocopied report ‘The future of St George’s Hospital at Hyde Park Corner’, nd, c.1970s
• Printed booklet ‘Recommendations as to the Medical Curriculum’ by the General Medical Council, 1947
• Charity Commission schemes relating to prizes at St George’s Hospital Medical School, 1977

Prospectuses, advertisements and pamphlets

• Printed booklet ‘The Nation’s Debt to St George’s Medical School’ (an appeal for funds), 1905
• Printed booklet ‘St George’s Hospital Medical School’, with photographs, nd, c.1969
• Advertisement for ‘The new St George’s Hospital medical students residences at Springfield’ and maps of the halls of residence, ?c.1960s
• Pamphlets for Open Days, 1984, 1986, 1990
• Outline programme of ‘Workshop on Surgical Management of Obesity’, nd, c?1970s
• St George’s Hospital Medical School Newsletter, summer term 1978
• Advertisement for the ‘Opening of St George’s Hospital and Medical School by Her Majesty the Queen’, 1980

Documents relating to St George’s history

• Letter regarding a donation of material from the 1870s by an alumnus, 1924
• Enquiries regarding the Wellington Arch and the medical school coat of arms, 1970s
• Newspaper cuttings and photocopies of articles, including ‘William Wilkins and St George’s’ (Medical News, 3 Nov 1967); ‘Threat to teaching hospitals’ (The Times, 4 Dec 1976); ‘Journey across the river’ (Health and Social Service Journal, 25 Feb 1977)
• Typescript notes relating to St George’s history by George Edwards, including ‘The medical side at Hyde Park Corner in 1924’, ‘Anaesthetics at St George’s 1925’ and ‘Hyde Park Corner – The surgical side in 1923’
• Photocopy article by R. Rutson James ‘The origins of the Medical School’

Newspaper cuttings relating to the move to Tooting [transferred from FIL/PHA]

• ‘Secret American Bd for NHS Hospital Takeover’ (Timeout, nd, c. 1980s); ‘A commercial cure for a chronically sick hospital’ (The Daily Telegraph, 24 Feb 1988); ‘Hospital is given the luxury hotel treatment’ (The Daily Telegraph, 31 Dec 1991)

Documents relating to St George’s Hospital Medical School Club

• Correspondence relating to the activities of the club, 1969

• Newsletters, including Medical School Club Newsletter (3 issues, 1981), St George’s Hospital Medical School Staff Club newsletter (1 issue, 1963) and London’s Inter-Hospital Student Magazine (1 issue, 1981)

• Headed paper (blank)

• Correspondence and documents relating to conservation and preservation of items in the archives, including items relating to Edward Wilson, Mike Stroud, busts, statue of Edward Jenner, and archival administration, 1997-

Reports, administrative documents and regulations

• Report of the Collegiate Establishment Committee, 1846
• ‘Regulations respecting the election and duties of the junior officers. Regulations to be observed in conducting the examinations for the prizes’, 1888
• Rules and regulations for the appointment of clinical clerks and dressers, nd, c. 1900 (3 copies)
  • Copy letter listing items of value in the Medical School for insurance, 1899
• Letter from Charles Hawkins enclosing a list of Benjamin Brodie’s pupils (enclosure not present)
• Letter entitled ‘Instruction to Sprake, Foreman & Co. as to receiving orders only from the treasurer or dean’, 1898

Documents relating to medical education

• Printed pamphlet ‘Analysis of lectures on Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children’, St George’s Hospital with manuscript annotations, 1874
• ‘Papers set in the examinations for Entrance Scholarship in Arts’, 1897
• Programme for an evening event at the Medical School, 1897
• Printed notice from the Metropolitan Schools of Medicine, ‘Facilities for Clinical Study Offered to Qualified Medical Practitioners’, signed by the deans, 1898
• Photocopied correspondence regarding subcutaneous injections at the Medical School, 1900, and the terms on which candidates from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge are admitted, 1898

Oversized folder:

• Certificate of attendance for Abraham Bristow, signed by Charles Hawkins, Bromfield and William Howell, 1845
• Laws and regulations of the Medical School,1864
• Printed notices for students advising them in regard with the London University Matriculation Examination (2 copies), 1898
• ‘Report of the Committee on the 1st years C.B. [Conjoint Board] Curriculum’ (manuscript), 1898

Nurses' League Journal nos 1-16 (1952-1975) and unnumbered issues for 1978 and 1983. A 1988 letter from Ann M. Hewson has been inserted into the 1964 issue.

Issues of St George's Nurses' League Newsletter for 1971, 1973 and 1976 (unnumbered series); 1996 (no 9); and 1998-2004 (nos 14-18, 20-23, 26). Also includes cover letters to library staff from Honorary Secretary Heather Bond (2000-2004), some of which enclose additional event information.

Copy of the hardback book 'Nurses' Voices: Memories of Nursing at St George's Hospital, London, 1930-1990', compiled by Carol McCubbin (with image research by Ines Warsop) and published by the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences (Kingston/St George's) in 2010. The book includes many reproductions of photographs alongside quotations from the interviews; it also includes an audio CD of clips in a pocket at the back.

Papers of St George’s Nurses’ League, including
Administrative papers:

• Fabric St George's nursing badge with correspondence relating to St George’s 250th anniversary celebrations, c.1920s-1983
• Details of entry to St George’s Hospital School of Nursing, 1960
• Meeting minutes, agendas and related correspondence, 1979-1996
• Address at the service of thanksgiving in honour of Dame Muriel Powell, 1979
• Draft constitution and account of St George’s Nurses’ League, 1980-1982
• Information on the School of Nursing, nd (c.1980s)
• Membership list, 1995
• Correspondence to members, 1990s
• Conference programmes, 1996-1999
• ‘St George’s Nurses League oral history project’: Interview schedule, blank copyright agreement, nd (2010-2011)
  Journals, newsletters, photographs:
• Photographs (12 items) of nurses’ Christmas choir and other events and related correspondence, 1955-1956 (some in O/S folder)
• Newsletters (nos 9-12), 1996-1997; 1960
• St George’s Hospital Nurses’ Handbook, 1974
• Article in the Nursing Mirror ‘Around the Corner’ on Sue Benson, nurse at St George’s, 1982
• Nurses’ League Journal, 1983
• Copy of painting by Audrey Hammond, 1993
• Nurses League newsletter, 1999

Nursing regulations:

• General rules for probationers, 1920s
• Duties of the staff nurses, 1960
• ‘Hospital etiquette’ (photocopy, no source), nd (c.1900s)
• Report of the committee of nursing (copy), 1893
• NHS General Dental Services regulations, 1964

Documents relating to former nurses and nursing students:

• Letter to a nurse, 1902, and related[?] correspondence
• Certificate of Olive Matthews, signed by Warrington Haward, William Ewart, Clinton Thomas Dent, Humphrey Davy Rolleston, Francis Jaffrey and Florence Smedley, 1906, and related correspondence
• Exam papers, 1936
• Certificate of Barbara Day, signed by Muriel Powell, Helga Feiling and Lord Ingleby, 1954 and related correspondence
• Photographs of nursing students, a St George’s Hospital badge and related correspondence, 1954
• Copy photographs, exam papers, certificate and correspondence relating to nurse Josephine Ruth Dunstone, 1996
• Enquiries relating to former nurses and nursing students and to donations to the archive, 1963-1997

Florence Nightingale:

• Photograph ‘Florence Nightingale: taken at Claydon House in the early nineties’
• Article on Florence Nightingale, cutting from ‘Nursing Mirror’, 1954
• Postcard depicting the home of Florence Nightingale

Folder 6, ‘S.O.N. details’:

• Notes and correspondence relating to move to Tooting, including lists of furniture and valuations, 1978-1980
• Leaflet on medals and prizes presented by the Duchess of Kent, 1959
• Parliamentary Hansard report regarding nurses’ pay, 1962, 1969
• Salmon report from ‘International Nursing Review’ by Muriel Powell ‘The implementation of a pilot scheme at St George’s Hospital, London, c.1966
• Article from ‘Nursing Times’ by Jillian MacGuire and Ruth Pomeranz, ‘Training for Reality 1-2: The Implications of Demographic Trends for the Training of Nurses’, 1968
• Article from ‘Nursing Mirror’, 1982

Leaflets for open days, 1988-1993, including opening of the Magnetic Resonance Unit, 1993