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Records, 1840-1959 - Catalogue
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of London University, Kings College Archives.
SECTION 2: Secretarial and House Governors’ Records
KHS/AD1/F1-6 Board of Governors Papers and Correspondence
[KHS/AD1/F1]
1940-1948
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and papers relating to Annual Courts (meetings) of the Corporation of the President, Vice-President and Governors of King’s College Hospital notably including detailed agenda, some minutes, and text of the addresses made at each ‘Court’.
[KHS/AD1/F2]
1947-1979
House Governor’s Office file, from 1 April 1974 becomes District Administrator’s Office file. Lists of members of King’s College Hospital Group Board of Governors, with addresses; list of all the Committee appointments of some long serving Governors, including Sir Anthony Hornby, the Hon Mrs Anthony Henley, Sir William Gilliatt, Dowager Viscountess Hambleden, and the Hon Mrs Charles Tufton; some lists of members of major Committees and senior staff of the Group.
[KHS/AD1/F3]
1952-1970
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, Board of Governors. General correspondence.
[KHS/AD1/F4]
1956-1963
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, Board of Governors. General correspondence. 1V (old) CM/20
[KHS/AD1/F5]
1936-1966
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, Board of Governors. General correspondence.
[KHS/AD1/F6]
1948-1965
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, Board of Governors. Correspondence and papers relating to the Development Committee.
KHS/AD1/F7-13 Finance and General Purposes Committee Correspondence
[KHS/AD1/F7]
1955-1963
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, Finance and General Purpose Committee. General correspondence.
[KHS/AD1/F8]
1963-1966
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, Finance and General Purpose Committee. General correspondence.
[KHS/AD1/F9]
1966-1973
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, Finance and General Purpose Committee. General correspondence.
KHS/AD1/F10-13 King’s College Hospital Committee of Management
(later House Committee) Papers and Correspondence
[KHS/AD1/F10]
1918-1933
Secretary’s file, from 1922 also House Governor. King’s College Hospital, Committee of Management. Extracts from the minutes, mainly relating to rules and regulations for medical procedures, the running of departments, and various appointments.
[KHS/AD1/F11]
1958-1965
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, King’s College Hospital House Committee. Correspondence, mainly relating to attendance.
[KHS/AD1/F12]
1909-1910
Secretary’s file. King’s College Hospital Committee of Management, Festival Dinners Sub-Committee, correspondence and papers relating to arrangements for annual Festival Dinners, 1909 and 1910.
[KHS/AD1/F13]
1948-1956
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, King’s College Hospital House Committee, Samaritan and Convalescent Home Sub-Committee. Correspondence and papers, mainly relating to membership, meeting arrangements and attendance.
House Committees of King’s College Hospital Group (excluding King’s College Hospital House Committee)
[KHS/AD1/F14]
1966-1973
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, St. Giles’ Hospital House Committee. Correspondence, particularly relating to membership, meeting arrangements and attendance.
[KHS/AD1/F15]
1966-1974
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and papers relating to Dulwich Hospital House Committee, and the amalgamation of Dulwich, St. Francis’ and Belgrave Hospitals House Committees in November 1973.
[KHS/AD1/F16]
1966-1975
House Governor’s Office file, from 1st April 1974 District Administrator’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group. St. Francis’ Hospital House Committee, St. Francis’ and Belgrave Hospitals House Committee (amalgamated 1968), and St. Francis’, Belgrade and Dulwich Hospitals House Committee (amalgamated 1973). Correspondences relating to membership, attendance and amalgamations.
[KHS/AD1/F17]
1966-1973
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, House Committees. General correspondence.
Other Committee files
[KHS/AD1/F18]
1949-1958
House Governor’s Office file. Various correspondence and papers of King’s College Hospital Group, Board of Governors, Finance and General Purposes Committee and King’s College Hospital House Committee.
[KHS/AD1/F19]
1953-1981
Various Committee papers, notably of the Board of Governors, Medical Committee, Forwards Planning Committee and Pharmacy Sub-Committee, also including the board of Governors Annual Accounts for the year ending 31 March 1973
[KHS/AD1/F20]
1955-1957
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, Committees. Papers relating to procedures, composition and membership.
[KHS/AD1/F21]
1959-1966
House Governor’s Office file. (Originally Camberwell Hospitals Management Committee Group Secretary’s file). Papers relating to the Local Maternity Liaison Committee of Camberwell Hospitals Management Committee, notably including minutes, meeting papers, agenda and correspondence with members. Also includes an alphabetical list of streets in the King’s College Hospital maternity catchment’s area from 1 December 1966.
[KHS/AD1/F22]
1966-1973
House Governor’s Office file. London Executive Council – superseded by the Family Practitioner Committee from April 1974. General correspondence and papers, including NHS regulations, relating to medical practices and practitioners.
[KHS/AD1/F23]
1969-1974
House Governor’s Office file. King’s College Hospital Group, General Practitioner Liaison Committee. Correspondence relating to attendance and agendas.
[KHS/AD1/F24]
1973-1974
House Governor’s Office file, from 1 April 1974 District Administrator’s Office file. Papers, including minutes, research and reports, relating to Working Parties, notably on the provision of a high dependency ward area at King’s College Hospital; to consider the nursing staff situation; to establish a programmed investigation unit, and for the junior doctors’ hours study.
[KHS/AD1/F25]
1973-1980
Various Committee minutes and papers, notably of the Finance and General Purposes Committee, relating to management, planning and organization, services, patient care and staffing.
[KHS/AD1/F26]
1980-1985
Various Committee papers, mainly reports, proposals and memoranda. To be sorted and catalogued upon acquisition of post 1975 Committee minutes and files.
[KHS/AD1/F27]
1952-1978
Charts detailing dates of Board and Committee meetings for King’s and subsidiary hospitals. Also surgical and other clinical Committee meetings for 1978. Flow diagrams showing administrative structured King’s Health District (undated), and relationship between different Committees in the mid 1950s.
KHSAD2/F1-137: Hospital Secretary’s Files on General Management and Administration
Files
[KHS/AD2/F1]
1956-1883
Secretary’s file. Papers relating to the arrangements with St. John’s House for nursing at King’s College Hospital. Includes an extract from the minutes of the Joint Committees of King’s College Hospital relating the terms of agreement between them and St. John’s House, 1856; a new version of terms of agreement, 1872; a report of the Committee of Management ‘on the subject of their impending separation from St. John’s House’, 1874; report of the ‘referees on the nursing arrangements of the Hospital’ and a report of a Sub-Committee appointed to inquire into the system of nursing in the Hospital and to suggest modifications and alterations to the agreement with St. John’s House, 1883.
[KHS/AD2/F2]
1868-1929, [1950s]
Secretary’s file, from 1922 also House Governor. Papers and correspondence relating to the rules of government and the legal and financial position of voluntary hospitals in London, notably including a report by the Secretary of St. Mary’s Hospital on hospital relief and the cost of its administration in the metropolis, 1867; reports relating to and arising from Lord Cave’s Committee, instituted in [1920] by the Minister of Health to consider the financial position of the voluntary hospitals; papers relating to the relationship between the London hospitals with medical schools and the London County Council, consequent to the Local Government Act 1929; an article by CEA. Bedwell, House Governor of King’s College Hospital, ‘The legal status of the voluntary hospital’; an undated article by Sir Napier Burnett, ‘Voluntary Hospital Finance; the report of the University Grants Committee, 1921, and an article on ‘The Voluntary Hospital and the Community’, by J Gilbert Turner, superintendent at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Canada.
[ KHS/AD2/F3]
1882
Secretary’s file. Statement of income and expenditure for 1881, with supporting letter from Ernest R. Frere, Auditor. Also, statement of assets as at December 1881.
[KHS/AD2/F4]
1883-1913
Secretary’s file. Letters mainly to the Secretary/Warden and the Principal, Rev Henry Wace.
[KHS/AD2/F5]
1886
Secretary’s file. Comparison of annual income and expenditure accounts for 1885 and 1886.
[KHS/AD2/F6]
1889-1905
Secretary’s file. Papers relating to the State Registration of Nurses, notably including a list of objections to the British Nurses’ Association’s scheme for voluntary registration, by Katherine Monk, Sister Matron at King’s College Hospital, 1889; an article reprinted from The Hospital 1890, stating the objections of the nurse-training schools and General Council of Medical Education and Registration to the British Medical Association’s scheme; King’s College Hospital rules and regulations for Sisters, 1904 and for probationer nurses, 1905; draft of an employment contract for King’s College Hospital nurses [1913] and an undated memorandum by Lord Methuen, Chairman of King’s College Hospital stating the objections to State Registration of nurses.
[KHS/AD2/F7]
1892-1897
[Secretary’s file.] Festival Dinners. Transcripts, written from shorthand notes, of toast speeches made in 1895 and 1896. Lists of persons present, 1892, 1893, 1895, 1896 and 1897. Also includes a report of a meeting held in support of a special appeal in behalf of the Hospital, 1893 (printed pamphlet).
[KHS/AD2/F8]
1893-1900
Secretary’s file. Letters mainly to the Secretary/Warden and the Principal, Rev. Henry Wace including letters on the Hospital Act 1857 and the right to spend legacies.
[KHS/AD2/F9]
1899-1900
Secretary’s file. Circular letters issued by the Central Hospital Council for London concerning the exemption of hospitals from local rates.
[KHS/AD2/F10]
1902-1935
Secretary’s file, from 1922 also House Governor. Typed and printed responsibilities and terms of appointment for the Resident medical Officer, Resident Assistant Clinical Pathologist, Resident Casualty Officer, Assistant Surgeon, Junior and Senior Obstetric House Surgeons, Obstetric Physician, Obstetric Registrar and Tutor, House and Assistant Anaesthetists, Ward Sisters and Probationer Nurses. Also, a report of the Sub-Committee on revised rules for resident Medical Officers, and rules for the administration of Anaesthetics, 1911 (typescript).
[KHS/AD2/F11]
1903
Secretary’s file. Correspondence mainly relating to arrangements for a ‘memorial picture’ – an engraving with panels showing different views of the Hospital and its wards, and distinguished physicians and surgeons, published (independently) by WH Benyon & Co., Fine Art Publishers.
[KHS/AD2/F12]
1903-1906
Secretary’s file. Papers relating to the appointment of a Sister-Matron of King's College Hospital in succession to Katherine H. Monk, notably including job description, terms and conditions of office, report of a Committee appointed to enquire into the duties of the Sister-Matron, text of the advertisement, and testimonials of a Miss Bredin.
[KHS/AD2/F13]
1903-1904, 1915
Secretary’s file. King's College Hospital, accounts and paid invoices, mainly for items of stationary for the Removal Fund. Also, a statement of account to King’s College Hospital from Winter Bothamley, Wood & Murray for their handling of a loan for £50,000 from the Alliance Insurance Office in 1915.
[KHS/AD2/F14]
1906
Secretary’s file. Report by the Secretary of the Royal Prince Alfred hospital, Sydney, on the ‘results of his investigations into hospital methods in Canada, the USA and Great Britain’.
[KHS/AD2/F15]
1906-1979
Job descriptions, standing orders, instructions, terms and conditions for various medical and administrative staff of King's College Hospital.
[KHS/AD2/F16]
1907-1913
Secretary’s file. Correspondence and papers relating to the consequences of the National Insurance Act 1911 regarding sick pay for nurses, servants and porters employed by King's College Hospital, notably including papers relating to the case of Nurse Bretell. Also includes King's College Hospital Medical School rules and regulations for all hospital appointments,1907. Printed pamphlet.
[KHS/AD2/F17]
1907, 1951-1954
Secretary’s file, and House Governors Letters and a memorandum by the Metropolitan Street Ambulance Association concerning the current provision of street ambulance services in the capital, and NHS circulars on rules for the control and use of the ambulance service.
[KHS/AD2/F18]
1909
Secretary’s file. Applications, with testimonials, of Wilfred Watkinson Holtzmann and Richard Gompertz for the post of Medical Officer to King’s College Hospital Convalescent Home, Hemel Hempstead.
[KHS/AD2/F19]
1909-1912
Secretary’s file. Correspondence and papers relating to regulations for the admission of patients, mainly letter from London Hospitals detailing their admissions policy, in reply to the Secretary’s enquiries. Also includes a Report by a King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London Committee, on the procedures for the admission of outpatients in London hospitals. Also, letter from JFW Silk to Captain Tunnard, Secretary, 1909, on admission of outpatients, notification of tuberculosis and the Almoner system.
[KHS/AD2/F20]
1911
Secretary’s file. Census forms, completed by some of the patients and staff of King's College Hospital.
[KHS/AD2/F21]
1912
Secretary’s file. Description of the work of the Almoner’s Department of King's College Hospital and the Lady Almoner’s Report.
[KHS/AD2/F22]
1913
Secretary’s file. King's College Hospital, Chapel Sub-Committee. Papers relating to Chapel Fund (a few pages only).
[KHS/AD2/F23]
1915
[Secretary’s file]. Report by Mr R F Norton and Mr G L Hawker on the terms of the appointment of Mr J H Townsend Green as Surveyor of Honorary Surveyor, and charges made by Messrs Weatherall & Green in connection with the disposal of the site of the old Hospital (typescript).
[KHS/AD2/F24]
1916
Secretary’s file. Replies to the Secretary form medical staff regarding sleeping in at the Hospital.
[KHS/AD2/F25]
1916
Secretary’s file. Papers relating to the development of food resources and provision of employment for women, particularly letters, including circular letters, from The British, Irish and Australasian Meat Company Ltd. – affiliated to The Imperial Food and Work League.
[KHS/AD2/F26]
1916-1917
Secretary’s file. Papers relating to the exemption of certain King's College Hospital staff from the provisions of the Military Service Acts, 1916.
[KHS/AD2/F26a]
1914, 1916
Miscellaneous correspondence relating to war time administration, including lists of doctors, a pre-war not relating to an account payment, war- time bond purchase letter (1916) and two treasury securities statistics booklets printed.
[KHS/AD2/F27]
1918-1920, [1965]
Secretary’s file. Papers concerning the provision of maternity and child welfare services at King's College Hospital, in reply to a Ministry of Health inquiry, and a proposal for the establishment of a Chair in Child Health at King's College Hospital.
[KHS/AD2/F28]
1920
Secretary’s file. The Ministry of Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill ‘to amend the law relating to the Housing of People, Public Health and Local Government…’ and newspaper cuttings relating to its provisions, particularly those affecting the involvement of the County Councils and the State in the financing of voluntary hospitals.
[KHS/AD2/F29]
1920
Secretary’s file. Annotated drafts of a report, prepared by Mr Hawker, on King's College Hospital Medical School, covering history, buildings, accommodation, facilities, teaching provided for students, specialization and prospects for qualified students. Also, three newspaper cuttings concerning the prospects for medical students as the Medical Schools open for the 1920-1921 session in times of possible reform to the hospital system and medical developments.
[KHS/AD2/F30]
1920
Secretary’s file. Interim Report of the Ministry of Health Consultative Council on future provision of medical and allied services. Newspaper cutting, ‘The State and Medicine’, commenting on the scheme proposed in the Report.
[KHS/AD2/F31]
1920
Secretary’s file. Draft copies of a report of the Medical Board on proposed duties of directors of studies at King’s College Hospital.
[KHS/AD2/F32]
1920
Secretary’s file. Typed summary of an Industrial Court case entitled ‘Hospital workers vs. London Hospitals’, which resulted in a decision setting down minimum wages and certain conditions of employment for Hospital workers, and Secretary’s rough notes on wages for non-medical women staff.
[KHS/AD2/F32a]
1920
Secretary’s file. Correspondence and papers relating to payments by patients of King's College Hospital, notably including tables of information about the system of patient contributions in other London and provincial hospitals.
[KHS/AD2/F33]
1920-1921
Secretary’s file. Papers relating to cooperation between Hospitals and Poor law Institutions and Infirmaries, particularly King's College Hospital and the Camberwell Infirmary, and the Wolverhampton Union Infirmary and the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital.
[KHS/AD2/F34]
1922-1930
House Governor and Secretary’s file. Papers relating to arrangements and agreements with private, paying patients of King's College Hospital, particularly the staff of WH Smith & Son and members of the Civil Service Nursing Aid Association.
[KHS/AD2/F35]
1930-1935
House Governor and Secretary’s file. Papers relating to policies and methods in the running of hospital outpatient departments and dispensaries. Includes a British Medical Association pamphlet ‘The problem of out-patients’, 1931; King's College Hospital’s replies to the questionnaire set by the outpatient Committee appointed by the King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London in 1932; papers on administrative procedures and forms for outpatients at the Victoria Memorial Jewish Hospital, Manchester; copies of reports on outpatient departments of the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia and the Vanderbilt Clinic in New York City; annual reports, accounts, and administrative forms of various south London dispensaries.
[KHS/AD2/F36]
1930-1940
[House Governor and Secretary’s file]. Papers relating to radium use: certificates of radium purity, for radium preparations (in platinum tubes) supplied to King's College Hospital by the Union Miniére Du Haut Katanga, the Congo, and accompanied by certificates from the Brussels Measuring Institute (in French), 1930-1931, and King's College Hospital radium reports, 1938, 1939, and 1940.
[KHS/AD2/F37]
1931
House Governor and Secretary’s file. Tenders and contracts for the supply of coal, coke, dressings, drugs and milk to the Leeds Maternity Hospital. (The tenders are addressed to the Secretary, SW Barnes who became House Governor and Secretary to King's College Hospital in 1939.)
[KHS/AD2/F38]
1932
House Governor and Secretary’s file. Report on salaries and wages of King's College Hospital personnel.
[KHS/AD2/F39]
1935-[1937]
House Governor and Secretary’s file. List of the founding members of King's College Hospital and extensive list of their descendents with titles, relation to founder, and address. Compiled to enlist support for the centenary celebrations of the Hospital.
[KHS/AD2/F40]
1937-1981
House Governor’s Office file, from 1 April 1974 District Administrator’s Office. Papers relating to the private patients wing of King's College Hospital, notably including a brochure [1938], plans for alterations to the windows and third floor of the building, 1957 an d1962, and a District Management Team guidance paper for Consultant staff concerning the admission of private patients to the Hospital, 1981.
[KHS/AD2/F41]
1938-1976
House Governor’s Office file, from 1 April 1974 District Administrator’s Office. Correspondence and papers relating to bed allocation in King's College Hospital, and from 1948, within King’s College Hospital Group, notably including bed allocation tables approved by the Beds Sub-committee; report of a physician’s meeting entitled ‘Case for additional designated beds’, 1957; report of the Working Party on bed allocation 1969; a typed history of additional bed acquisitions for King's College Hospital, 1946-1960 and draft of a 1974 paper to the Department of Health and Social Security on the prospects for King's College Hospital Teaching Group, including the future for bed provision.
[KHS/AD2/F42]
1944-1963
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence relating to the King's College Hospital Staff Benevolent Fund, particularly concerning grants, and the transfer of its administration in 1950 to the House Governor and a representative of staff, consequent to the national Health Service Act 1946 and a Ministry of Health guidance circular on Samaritan and other funds, 1950.
[KHS/AD2/F43]
1944-1980
House Governor’s Office file, form 1 April 1974 District Administrator’s Office. Papers relating to health and safety at work, notably concerning reporting of accidents on hospital premises and health care for hospital staff, and including the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, 1944; the Health and Safety at Work Act, 1974 (chapter 37 relating to control of dangerous substances and emissions); memorandum on personal protection against postal bombs, 1974; policy document on basic health care by South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, 1974, and fire precaution arrangements at King’s College Hospital, 1980. Outline of scheme of management of the Hospital, 1947.
[KHS/AD2/F44]
1945-1950
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and circulars relating to the drafting of the National Health Service Superannuation Regulations 1947 in consultation with the Institute of Hospital Administrators, the Federated Superannuation Scheme for Nurses and Hospital Officers (Contributory), and the British Hospitals Association (the latter organizations keeping King’s College Hospital informed of developments). Includes a copy of the Federated Superannuation Scheme, [1940], NHS Superannuation Regulations, 1947, a guide to the NHS Scheme, published by HMSO, 1948 and a Code of Procedure for Employing Authorities, regarding implementation of the NHS Superannuation Regulations of 1950.
[KHS/AD2/F45]
1946-1949
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and papers relating to Superannuation arrangements subsequent to the implementation of National Health (Superannuation) Regulations 1947 and 1948 notably include a HMSO ‘explanation’ of the 1947 Regulations and Amended Regulations, 1949.
[KHS/AD2/F46]
1947-1953
House Governor’s Office file. King's College Hospital Group, Baldwin Brown Convalescent Home. Correspondence mainly relating to administration.
[KHS/AD2/F47]
1953-1957, 1971-1973
House Governor’s Office file. King's College Hospital Group, Baldwin Brown Convalescent Home. Correspondence and papers mainly relating to administration. Also includes papers (two only) relating to the closure of the Home in 1971.
[KHS/AD2/F48]
1947-1960
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and papers relating to standing orders for the running of hospitals. Includes the 1947 Ministry of Health circular regulations ‘Model Standing Orders for Regional Hospital Boards, Boards of Governors and Hospital Management Committees’; a report by the House Governor and Secretary, to the Finance and General Purposes Committee, suggesting amendments to the Board of Governors’ 1952 set of standing orders, to bring the Group more into line with the 1947 regulation; the standing orders of Charing Cross, the London and St. Mary’s Hospitals and the Middlesex Hospital Group and a list of Ministry of Work approved building contractors, arranged by county. Standing orders of House Committees, 1964. King’s Research Committee Constitution and Terms of Reference, 1955.
[KHS/AD2/F49]
1947-1966
[House Governor’s Office file.] Book of annual leave/absence dates of medical staff, including names of substitutes.
[KHS/AD2/F50]
1947-1983
House Governor’s Office file, from 1st April District Administrator’s Office file, becomes Camberwell Health Authority District Administration from April 1982. Papers relating to Dulwich Hospital, notably including notes on a meeting convened by the LCC Public Health Department regarding proposals for a linkage between King's College Hospital and Dulwich and St. Francis’ Hospitals, and papers relating to the designation of Dulwich Hospital to the King’s Group, 1964; the opening of a Public Health Laboratory at Dulwich Hospital in 1973; services provided by the Dulwich Hospital Renal Dialysis Unit, and their cost; Tunnel, July 1976, the Dulwich and St. Francis’ Hospitals staff magazine; memoranda concerning the renaming of the Dulwich and St. Francis’ Hospital from April 1984 to ‘Dulwich Hospital’; site plan and photographs of the Hospital exterior and interiors.
[KHS/AD2/F51]
1948-1955
House Governor’s Office file. King's College Hospital Group. Correspondence an papers relating to Committee powers, procedures and structures. CM/15
[KHS/AD2/F52]
1948-1962
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence an papers relating to the provision and use of the Common seal of the Board of Governors of King’s College Hospital Group, and concerning the design of a new Seal following the Royal Eye Hospital’s departure from the Group (in 1956).
[KHS/AD2/F53]
1949
House Governor’s Office file. National Health Service circular instructions for the provision of a hospital seal (1page) and a King’s Group internal memo on the procedure fro maintenance and use of the Board of Governor’s ‘common seal’. G/S1
[KHS/AD2/F54]
1951-1969
House Governor’s Office file. Record of issue of certified impressions of the Common Seal (note book).
[KHS/AD2/F55]
1948-1965
House Governor’s Office file. Paper relating to psychiatric services in the Bethlem Royal Hospital and Maudsley Hospital, and St. Francis’ Hospital, notably concerning combined nurse training arrangements between King’s College Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital, annual and biennial reports of the Guy’s and Maudsley Neurosurgical Unit, 1953, 1959 and 1960, and a report by the Medical Committee of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and Maudsley Hospital on the ‘Royal Commission on the law relating to mental illness and mental deficiency’.
[KHS/AD2/F56]
1948-1956, 1968
House Governor’s Office file. Papers relating to food hygiene and hospital catering services, notably including a report by the catering supervisor on the working arrangements of catering services in the Hospital with recommendations for improvement, 1948; a report of the Ministry of Food Catering Trade Working Party, ‘Hygiene in Catering Establishments’, 1951; the Food and Drugs Amendment Act, 1954 and a prospectus of the King Edward’s hospital Fund for London School of Hospital Catering.
[KHS/AD2/F57]
1948-1969
Papers relating to overall management, organization and methods of the King’s College Hospital Group, and planning, coordination and cooperation with other health authorities and local authorities.
[KHS/AD2/F58]
1948-1976
House Governor’s Office file. Paper relating to personnel structures and administration, within the NHS and within King’s College Hospital Group in particular.
[KHS/AD2/F58a]
1948-1982
House Governor’s Office file, from 1 April 1974 becomes District Administrator’s Office file. Correspondence relating to royal patronage and honorary presidency of the hospitals in the King’s Group, particularly the King's College Hospital royal patron, King George VI and later Queen Elizabeth II, and honorary president, the Duchess of Gloucester.
[KHS/AD2/F59]
1948-1984
House Governor’s Office file, from 1 April 1974 becomes District Administrator’s Office file. Papers relating to Belgrave Hospital, notably a draft annual report for the House Management Committee, 1948, and papers concerning the building of a new nurses home on a site adjacent to the Hospital, and the Variety Club Children’s Hospital built at King’s College Hospital to accommodate for the closure of the Belgrave (in the early 1980s).
[KHS/AD2/F60]
1948-1990
Heather Tamlyn’s file. Lists of Medical Officers, including department, appointment, room/flat number and extension/bleep number.
[KHS/AD2/F61]
1949-1960
House Governor’s Office file (originally Camberwell Hospitals Management Committee, Group Secretary’s file). Correspondence and papers relating to the naming of wards in St. Francis’, St. Giles’ and Dulwich Hospitals.
[KHS/AD2/F62]
1949-1961
House Governor’s Office file. Ministry of Health circulars relating to legal proceedings in the NHS.
[KHS/AD2/F63]
1949-1962
House Governor’s Office file. Papers relating to King’s College Hospital’s involvement in the King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London projects and investigations, notably courses at the Fund’s Hospital Administrative Staff College, the Outpatient Discussion Group, homes for the aged and sick, and noise control in Hospitals.
[KHS/AD2/F64]
1949-1965
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and papers relating to memorials, remembrance and thanksgiving services.
[KHS/AD2/F65]
1949-1966
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and papers relating to memorial services for King’s College Hospital staff, including orders of service.
[KHS/AD2/F66]
1956-1961
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence relating to the erection of memorial tablets and plaques throughout the Hospital, dedicated to distinguished staff and benefactors.
[KHS/AD2/F67]
1967-1992
House Governor’s Office file, from 1 April 1974 becomes District Administrator’s Office file, becomes Camberwell Health Authority District Administration from April 1982. Correspondence and papers relating to memorial/thanksgiving services for King's College Hospital staff, including orders of service.
[KHS/AD2/F68]
1949-1966
House Governor’s Office file. Papers relating to the Royal Eye Hospital, notably concerning appointments to the Research Chair in Ophthalmology, and a minor property dispute regarding the ownership of a site adjoining the Hospital.
[KHS/AD2/F69]
1949-1966
House Governor’s Office file. Papers relating to Camberwell Hospitals Management Committee, concerning custody and use of the Common Seal, representation at Regional levels, and the proposal for the designation of St. Giles’ and St. Francis’ hospitals to the King’s Group.
[KHS/AD2/F70]
1949-1968
House Governor’s Office file. Papers relating to investment of money received annually by King’s College Hospital from the David E Hughes Trust Fund, including typescript copy of Hughes’ will.
[KHS/AD2/F71]
1949-1969
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and papers relating to the supply of King’s College Hospital Annual Reports (up to 1947) and other annual reports produced within the King’s Group after 1948 to interested hospitals and organizations. Includes a copy of ‘King's College Hospital and Medical School Research Committee Fifth Annual Report’, 1955 and ‘King's College Hospital Department of Urology Annual Report’, 1955.
[KHS/AD2/F72]
1949-1974
[House Governor’s Office file]. Papers relating to St. Giles’ Hospital, notably including a brief history of the Hospital, by the Secretary Roy Dolling; article about the Hospital’s services and method of operation since 1948, by PH Friedlander in the King’s College Hospital Gazette Autumn 1967; two photocopied photographs of the hospital front; site plan; correspondence concerning the officers of the League of Friends and Ex-patients of St. Giles’ Hospital and paper concerning the acquisition of food supplies during post-war rationing.
[KHS/AD2/F73]
1949-1950, 1965-1988
House Governor’s Office file, from 1s April 1974 becomes District Administrator’s Office file, becomes Camberwell Health Authority District Administration from April 1982. Correspondence and papers relating to information on staff (mainly non-medical), notably concerning selection, appointments, duties of posts, restructuring and leaving parties.
[KHS/AD2/F74]
[1949]-1965
House Governor’s Office file. General correspondence, arranged alphabetically by subject or department, notably relating to administration of the hospital departments and staff.
[KHS/AD2/F75]
[1950], 1968-1969
House Governor’s Office file. Papers relating to the Hospital Officers Club, notably including rules with membership lists.
[KHS/AD2/F76]
1952-1953
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and papers relating to arrangements for the Coronation celebrations within the King’s College Hospital Group.
[KHS/AD2/F77]
1952-1965
House Governor’s Office file. Various NHS circular memoranda and regulations mainly on salary scales and conditions for various professionals and technicians employed in the health service, on hearing aids for children and on dental services and charges.
[KHS/AD2/F78]
1953-1957
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and papers relating to recruitment and grading of administrative and clerical staff, mainly within the House Governor’s Office. Also includes instructions for the maintenance and retention of hospital records, particularly personnel records.
[KHS/AD2/F79]
1960-1986
House Governor’s Office file, from 1st April 1974 becomes District Administrator’s Office file, becomes Camberwell Health Authority District Administration from April 1982. ‘Staff data’ (non-medical), correspondence and papers notably including staff lists, and relating to appointments and grading of posts.
[KHS/AD2/F80]
1957-1968
House Governor’s file. Correspondence mainly relating to applications for, and appointments to, administrative hospital posts.
[KHS/AD2/F81]
1957-1970
[House Governor’s Office file.] Papers relating to the acquisition and allocation of additional beds for the King’s College Hospital Group, notably including a memorandum on ‘the need for additional teaching beds’, [1950s]; a report on ‘the case for additional designated beds’ 1957; a ‘proposal for the designation of Dulwich Hospital as part of King’s College Hospital, 1963; conditions of the scheme for the provision of General Practitioner maternity beds at Dulwich Hospital, [1964] and papers concerning the planning of the New Ward Block.
[KHS/AD2/F82]
1957-1971
House Governor’s Office file. Various correspondence and papers relating to administration, notably concerning the Medical School library service, the Liver Research Unit, salaries and grading and linen supply.
[KHS/AD2/F82a]
1957-1988
House Governor’s Office file, from 1st April 1974 becomes District Administrator’s Office file, becomes Camberwell Health Authority District Administration from April 1982. Papers, mainly lists, relating to retired Consultants. Includes pages from Who’s Who.
[KHS/AD2/F83]
1958
House Governor’s Office file. Handover notes for the House Governor, (on his return from absence).
[KHS/AD2/F84]
1958-1961
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and papers relating to the compilation, drafting, publication and supply of the ‘King’s College Hospital Report 1948-1958’. Includes drafts of sections contributed by departments.
[KHS/AD2/F85]
1958-1965
[House Governor’s Office file.]; Paper relating to St. Francis’ Hospital: a brief history of the hospital, by the Secretary W Westbey (typescript); photocopy of a photograph of the hospital front; diagram of the structure of the Group Geriatric Unit based at St. Francis’; memorandum on the future of the Geriatric Unit; papers relating to the future of Beechgrove ‘half-way house’ recovery home upon the designation of the Camberwell Group to the King’s Group of Hospitals and correspondence relating to the formation, and officers, of the St. Francis’ Hospital League of Friends.
[KHS/AD2/F86]
1958-1978
District Administrator’s Office file. Correspondence relating to the School of Radiography, mainly concerning student places, fees and training costs, also including a paper published by the Society of Radiographers recommending standards of the establishment and organization of training schools, 1965.
[KHS/AD2/F87]
1959-1970
House Governor’s Office file. Paper relating to the X-ray/Radiology Department, notably including a Physics Department report on radiation exposures of surgical and nursing staff; a report on the administrative arrangements in the X-ray Department; minutes of the Committee on the future of X-ray departments in the Group, 1965-1966; a map showing available radiotherapy services in South-East Greater London and a study of the Radiology Department administration system with proposals to increase efficiency and cost-effectiveness, to a computer system RISAC (Radiology Information Statistics and Control).
[KHS/AD2/F88]
1958-1980
House Governor’s Office file, from 1st April 1974 District Administrator’s Office file. Papers relating to admissions policy in the Casualty Department of King’s College Hospital and the provision, administration and development of accident services in the Camberwell area. Notably including minutes of the Fracture and Accident Subcommittee, February and April 1959, minutes of meetings to discuss Camberwell Area Accident Service, May, June and July 1959, and report of the Accident and Emergency Working Party on the running of the A/E department, in light of a delayed redevelopment scheme, reported drop in standards of service and low staff moral.
[KHS/AD2/F89]
1959
House Governor’s Office file. Papers – statements of evidence and terms of reference of the investigating committee – relating to professional misconduct, made by the Board of Governors against Dr Archibald Gilpin.
[KHS/AD2/F90]
1959
[House Governor’s Office file]. Table of applicant information for post of House Governor, including name, age, education and qualifications, hospital, military and addresses of referees.
[KHS/AD2/F91]
1959-1960, 1978
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and papers relating to the establishment of the Voluntary Research Trust of King’s College Hospital and Medical School, notably including minutes of the first and second Trustees and Committee meetings, July 1959 and August 1960, copy of the draft an final version trust deed, and a table of suggested investments.
[KHS/AD2/F92]
1959-1983
House Governor’s Office file, from 1st April 1974 District Administrator’s Office file, becomes Camberwell Health Authority Chief Administrator’s Office from April 1982. Lists of the Nursing staff of King’s College Hospital Group, King’s Health District, and Camberwell Health Authority.
[KHS/AD2/F93]
[1951-1959]
House Governor’s Office file. Standing routine instructions for administrative staff, including procedural instructions for the Committee Clerk regarding the Board of Governors, Finance and General Purposes Committee, King’s College Hospital House Committee, Belgrave Hospital House Committee, Research Committees, Medical and Dental Committees and Nursing Committee.
[KHS/AD2/F94]
[1950] - 1985
[Heather Tamlyn’s files]. Papers relating to the preservation and destruction of hospital/medical records, notably including an internal report on the storage of case notes; a Ministry of Health list of records existing in Hospitals and Hospital Authority offices not considered of sufficient value to justify their preservation in the Public Record Office, 1956; NHS circulars on standardization, retention, preservation and destruction; handbook ‘for the guidance of NHS personnel and archivists in the North Western Region, 1979, and journal articles.
[KHS/AD2/F95]
[1966-1974] [1966-1974]
House Governor’s Office file. List of documents kept in the House Governor’s office, given to Heather Tamlyn by John Blanford on his departure from King’s College Hospital. Includes a shelf plan and key to location numbering. (Original and two photocopies of list.)
[KHS/AD2/F96]
House Governor’s Office file. Old file index, with reference numbers. Typed on cards.
[KHS/AD2/F97]
Late 1960s/ early 70s
House Governor’s Office file. List of files, with old and new reference numbers.
[KHS/AD2/F98]
1974-1982
District Administrator’s Office file. Index of files, with reference numbers, list of files kept in the District Administrator’s Office and list of legacy files passed to the Finance Department in 1974.
[KHS/AD2/F99]
1988
Camberwell Health Authority District Management file. Index of files, with reference numbers.
[KHS/AD2/F100]
[Late 1950] -1975
House Governor’s office file, from 1 April 1974 District Administrator’s office file. Papers relating to administrative arrangements in the King’s Group and District, including the committee structure, and transitional staffing structure arrangements for the reorganized NHS (from April 1974) including the transfer of ILEA school health service staff to the new Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Area Health Authority (Teaching). Also includes a survey report on administrative arrangements, carried out by the Hospital organisation and Methods Service for the Board of Governors, 1968.
[KHS/AD2/F101]
[1950-1969]
(House Governor’s Office File). Drafts of the proposed organization of the new central sterile supply department at King’s College Hospital.
[KHS/AD2/F102]
1961-65
House Governor’s Office file. Correspondence and papers relating to the Standing Orders of the King’s Group of Governors, and particularly the need to comply with the Ministry of Health’s ‘Model Standing Orders’ circulated in 1956.
[KHS/AD2/F103]
1961-73
House Governor’s Office file. Papers relating to the history of, and information on, King’s College Hospital and King’s College Hospital Group, notably including part of an account up to 1913 (typescript), text of a detailed lecture given by Mr Banks, House Governor, up to the building of the New Ward Block (mid-1960’s), and ‘a brief introduction to the King’s College Hospital Group, prepared for a visit by the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) Regional Team Nov 1973, including a list of the facilities on each site.
[KHS/AD2/F104]
1961-1976
House Governor’s Office File, from 1st April 1974 District Administrator’s file. Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) ‘Abstracts of Efficiency Studies in the National Health Service’, including copies of the index to the full series (1961-1971), relating to administrative arrangements departments and services in hospitals.
[KHS/AD2/F105]
1976-1980
District Administrator’s Office File. Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) ‘Abstracts of Efficiency Studies in the National Health Service’, including copies of the index to the full series (1961-1977), and ‘Notes on Good Practice – National Health Service’, relating to administrative arrangements, departments and services in hospitals.
[KHS/AD2/F106]
1964-1965
House Governor’s Office File. Letters from General Practitioners, accepting the conditions of a scheme for the use of GP maternity beds at Dulwich Hospital, and supplying evidence of membership of the Medical Defence Union, or the Medical Protection Society.
[KHS/AD2/F107]
1964, 1967-1972
House Governor’s Office File. House Governor’s out-letters, notably relating to personnel administration and closure of the Baldwin Brown Convalescent Home, Camberley.
[KHS/AD2/F108]
1964-1979
House Governor’s Office File, from 1st April 1974 District Administrator’s Office File. Lists, mainly of names, addresses and departments of members of the Medical Committee, and timetables of Consultant attendances at outpatient clinics, wards and operations in the King’s College Hospital Group.
[KHS/AD2/F109]
1964-1981
House Governor’s Office File, from 1st April 1974 District Administrator’s Office File. List of ward names in King's College, Belgrave, Dulwich, St. Francis’ and St. Giles’ Hospitals, each with a brief note on their history.
[KHS/AD2/F110]
1966
House Governor’s Office File. Paper stating the services to be provided by the Board of Governors on the assumption of ‘district responsibility’ (an area covering the part of the former Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth which lay within the South-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, and the former Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell except the area lying within the district served by the Board of Governor’s of Guy’s Hospital).
[KHS/AD2/F111]
1966
[House Governor’s Office File]. Curriculum vitae, with list of publications, and testimonials of Dr John William Lawes, for the post of head of the Radio Diagnostic Department at the Medical School.
[KHS/AD2/F111A]
1966
Statements of evidence from medical staff to a Medical Committee sub-committee investigating the procedure for notifying infectious diseases to the Medical Officer of Health, in relation to a specific hospital case of death due to food-poisoning or gastro-enteritis.
[KHS/AD2/F112]
1966-1974
House Governor’s Office File. Papers relating to the changes in the constitution of the King’s College Hospital Group Board of Governors (regarding responsibility for hospitals, clinics, etc.) consequent to NHS statutory instruments for the ‘Designation of London Teaching Hospitals’.
[KHS/AD2/F113]
[1966]
House Governor’s Office File, (originally Camberwell Hospitals’ Management Committee, Group Secretary’s file). Camberwell Hospitals Management Committee files index, in subject order (administration, finance, patients, records, etc.) with separate ‘works’ files indexes for Dulwich, St. Giles’ and St. Francis’ Hospitals. Each index notes file title and number.
[KHS/AD2/F114]
1967-1982
House Governor’s Office File, from 1st April 1974 District Administrator’s Office File. Papers, mainly correspondence and memoranda, relating to the introduction and implementation of the Abortion Act 1967 in the King’s Group of NHS hospitals, abortion and family planning services provided by the Group/District, and abortion counselling guidance and arrangements. G/M9/1
[KHS/AD2/F115]
1969
House Governor’s Office File. Memorandum by the House Governor JD Banks on the financial position of the King’s College Hospital Group.
[KHS/AD2/F116]
[1960-1969]
House Governor’s Office File. Articles by SW Barnes, House Governor of King’s College Hospital, notably a review of Background to Hospital Planning, by HWC Vines, and ‘Central purchase and supply’.
[KHS/AD2/F117]
[1966-1969]
House Governor’s Office File. Diagrams showing the domestic administration structure within the Kings’ Group.
[KHS/AD2/F118]
1971-1979
House Governor’s Office File, from 1 April District Administrator’s Office File. Draft British Standards drawn up by the British Standards institution and circulated to King’s College Hospital, with brief comments by relevant staff, notably on the specification for surgical instruments with bow handles.
[KHS/AD2/F119]
1972-1975
House Governor’s Office File, from 1 April becomes District Administrator’s Office File. Correspondence and papers relating to the administration of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, (renamed the Normanby College in January 1973).
[KHS/AD2/F120]
1972-1975
House Governor’s Office File, from 1 April becomes District Administrator’s Office File. Correspondence relating to the establishment and administration of a joint hypertension research project between the Wellcome Research Laboratories and King’s College Hospital Medical School, and the contention arising from the appointment of Dr B Johnson and Dr Munro-Faure of the Wellcome Research Laboratories to Honorary Senior Lectureships at the Medical School.
[KHS/AD2/F121]
1974
House Governor’s Office File, from 1st April becomes District Administrator’s Office File. Detailed ‘District Profile’, complied by the Group Management Services Department (becomes the District Management Team?), and a report by the District Management Team on development problems of the King’s District in view of likely curtailment of revenue and capital funds, coupled with rising demand on District services.
[KHS/AD2/F122]
1974-1979
District Administrator’s Office File. Correspondence and papers relating to the appointment of District Remedial Therapists, particularly the District Physiotherapist.
[KHS/AD2/F123]
1974-1982
District Administrator’s Office File. Papers, mainly standing orders and financial instruction for Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Area Health Authority (Teaching), based on Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) financial directives for Health Authorities in England and Wales.
[KHS/AD2/F124]
1975-1977
District Administrator’s Office File. Correspondence and papers, including communications with the Personnel Administrator’s Office, concerning the application to the South East Thames Regional Health Authority for new staff and equipment for the Liver Unit at King’s College Hospital Medical School. Includes a copy of each formal proposal.
[KHS/AD2/F125]
1976-1978
District Administrator’s Office File. Papers relating to private patient services in NHS hospitals and in King’s Health District. Mainly Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) circulars.
[KHS/AD2/F126]
1976-1982
District Administrator’s Office File. Papers relating to contracting procedures for catering and furniture. Mainly Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) circulars, particularly relating to the EEC Supplies Directive (no. 77/62). Also includes lists of approved contractors in the King’s Health District.
[KHS/AD2/F127]
1977
[District Administrator’s Office File]. Papers relating to obstetric and gynaecology services: report by King’s Health District Management Team on the Regional services provided by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at King’s College Hospital (obstetric ultrasound and infertility service) with a proposal for the assumption of responsibility for a third Regional service (screening for neural tube defects); Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) circular on the general arrangements for counselling of patients seeking abortion and [DHSS] consultation circular for the establishment of a screening service for spina bifida and other neural tube defects.
[KHS/AD2/F128]
1977-1978
District Administrator’s Office File. Correspondence and papers relating to the rationalization of Obstetric services in the King’s District.
[KHS/AD2/F129]
1977-1980
District Administrator’s Office File. Correspondence and papers including reports and press cuttings on nursing services in the South East Thames Regional Health Authority Area, particularly relating to King’s Health District (Teaching).
[KHS/AD2/F130]
1978
[District Administrator’s Office File]. Report by the Dulwich/St. Francis’ Working Group on the ‘proposed transferring of Patients’ Service from St. Giles’ Hospital to the Dulwich and St. Francis’ Hospital’.
[KHS/AD2/F131]
1978-1979
District Administrator’s Office File. Correspondence relating to the problems with, and consequent reform of, the management arrangements in the Physiotherapy Department.
[KHS/AD2/F132]
1979
District Administrator’s Office File. Papers relating to the appointment of a District Physiotherapist and a Principal of the School of Physiotherapy, including job descriptions.
[KHS/AD2/F133]
1979
[District Administrator’s Office File]. ‘Revenue Allocation 1979-1980’, report of the King’s District Management Team to the Area Members Planning Group.
[KHS/AD2/F134]
1980-1981
District Administrator’s Office File. Information on the pharmacy stock control computer applications designed by International Computer Ltd (ICL) and Unichem Ltd, including system descriptions and Unichem Ltd ‘proposals for pharmacy computer systems for Lambeth, Southward and Lewisham Area Health Authority (Teaching)’.
[KHS/AD2/F135]
1981-86
Camberwell Health Authority District Administration file. Papers relating to the location and details of pictures and artefacts in the District Hospitals notably include a list of the portraits in the Board Room of King’s College Hospital.
[KHS/AD2/F136]
1981-88
District Administrator’s Office File, from April 1982 Camberwell Health Authority District Administration. Lists of General Practitioners in the King’s Health District and the Camberwell Health Authority, and member or committees and senior staff in the Camberwell Health Authority. (For mailing purposes)
[KHS/AD2/F137]
1909-16
Receipts and invoices sent to King’s for equipment and other items.
Planning and Development, Buildings and Property Files
[KHS/AD3/F1]
1853-1859
Secretary’s file. Papers relating to new King’s College Hospital buildings: copies of contracts between the President, Vice Presidents and Governors of King’s College Hospital, and Messrs. Lucas Brothers for new buildings, 1953, 1858 and 1859; receipts for payment to Thomas Bellamy, Architect, for professional services, 1956-1962, and plan of first storey King’s College Hospital by Thomas Bellamy.
[KHS/AD3/F1A]
1859-1861
[Secretary’s file]. King’s College Hospital new building, ‘No.2 Contract’ detailed accounts for the building works carried out. (Numbered statements, 1-27).
[KHS/AD3/F2]
1882-1883
[Secretary’s file]. Reports on drainage at King’s College Hospital, by Rogers Field, MICE, notably ‘Drainage of King’s College Hospital 1883 – description of works with instructions for maintaining them in order, and detailed schedule referring to the plan.’ (Printed and Ms.)
[KHS/AD3/F2a]
1894-1896
Secretary’s file. Correspondence concerning the sale to the Strand District Board of Works by the Hospital of number 1, 2, and 3 Gilbert’s Passage and number 9 Gilbert Street.
[KHS/AD3/F3]
1896
[Secretary’s file]. Letters from Weatherall & Green, Surveyors and Auctioneers, to Rev. H Wace, Chairman of the Committee of Management, concerning the disposal of lands to the Strand District Board of Works, and concerning the detrimental effect on surplus land owned by the Hospital of a new building being erected in Twining Street by the proprietors of the Financial Times.
[KHS/AD3/F4]
1898-1900
Secretary’s file. Copies of rental agreements, with covering letters, from the National Telephone Company Ltd.
[KHS/AD3/F5]
1899
Secretary’s file. Papers relating to the proposed new buildings, including new Outpatient and Casualty Departments, at King’s College Hospital: report of Professors Rose and McHardy to the Committee of Management, setting out their scheme for improvements; report of the medical Committee recording their opinion on the scheme; draft instructions for plans for the new buildings.
[KHS/AD3/F6]
1901-1907
Secretary’s file. Papers, including plan relating to building works on King’s College Hospital, mainly reports of Honorary Surveyor JH Townsend Green, estimates, tenders and papers concerning plans to transfer the Pathological Museum to the Post Mortem Room.
[KHS/AD3/F7]
1902
Secretary’s file. Correspondence with Louis Ambler, architect, particularly relating to fees.
[KHS/AD3/F8]
1902-1904
Secretary’s file. Reports on the viability of removing King’s College Hospital to a site in South London: ‘Memorandum of the Medical Board to the Council “on the advisability of transfer King’s College Hospital to an adequate site”, 1902 (2 copies, printed); ‘Report of the Joint Committee of the Council, Medical Board, and Committee of Management of King’s College Hospital’, 1903 (2 copies, printed) and ‘Report of the Special Committee appointed by the Council of King’s College Hospital’, 1903 (4 copies, annotated typescript). Also includes a copy of the Bill to authorise the sale and disposal of the site and the acquisition of lands for the erection of a new hospital 1904.
[KHS/AD3/F9]
1902-1904
Secretary’s file. Correspondence with and relating to Keith D. Young, architect to King’s College Hospital appointed 1902, concerning building works on the Portugal Street Hospital and the competition to select an architect for the new Hospital in South London.
[KHS/AD3/F10]
1902-1915
King’s College Hospital, Secretary’s letters from donors to the Removal Fund.
[KHS/AD3/F11]
1903
[Secretary’s file]. Papers relating to the removal of King’s College Hospital: extracts of the Minutes of the Committee of Management, 8 January (typescript); transcript of proceedings at a Special Court of the Corporation of the President, Vice-Presidents and Governors of King’s College Hospital, 12th October (typescript) and resolutions of the Special Court (printed).
[KHS/AD3/F12]
1903-1907
Secretary’s file. Accounts from Winter, Bothamley & Co., Solicitors, to King’s College Hospital Removal Fund, for professional fees in handling the promotion and passing of the King’s College Hospital (Removal) Act 1904 and the purchase of the Denmark Hill site.
[KHS/AD3/F13]
1903-1914
Secretary’s file. King’s College Hospital Removal Fund, various accounts and correspondence relating to building costs of the new Hospital, notably including detailed accounts for commission paid to the Architect, William A Pite and the Consulting Engineering, DS Capper, and a summary of costs for building and engineering contracts up to December 1913.
[KHS/AD3/F14]
1904
Secretary’s file. King’s College Hospital, Competition of the proposed rebuilding near Camberwell Green. Printed ‘Instruction to selected architects’ 1904, with drafts.
[KHS/AD3/F15]
1904
[House Governor’s Office file]. Detailed report containing proposals, opinion, advice and ideas for the design and administration of the new Hospital, by the Sister Matron.
[KHS/AD3/F16]
1904-1911
Secretary’s file. Miscellaneous papers relating to the King’s College Hospital Removal Fund, notably including correspondence relating to the appointment of Mr A McLeod Forest, Removal Fund Secretary, rules of Removal Fund sub-committees with list of duties for the Removal Fund Secretary; drawings and block plans of the proposed new Hospital, the Removal Fund’s Report for 1911-1912 and press cuttings concerning the need for funding.
[KHS/AD3/F17]
1904-1915
Secretary’s file. Account from Winter, Bothamley & Co., Solicitors, to King’s College Hospital Removal Fund, for professional fees in handling rents from houses on the Denmark Hill site, and business in connection with maintenance of the Denmark Hill site and ‘The Platanes’ at Champion Hill, including the their accounts from estate agents Sladden and Stuart.
[KHS/AD3/F18]
1905
Secretary’s file. Report on the proposed design for the new Hospital building, with a general plan, view of the front and a cost estimate, by William A Pite, Architect. Also includes correspondence relating to the design.
[KHS/AD3/F18a]
1905-1914
Secretary’s file. Papers relating to the building of the new King’s College Hospital at Denmark Hill, notably concerning named parts of the Hospital, allocation of beds, lists of tenders for building contracts and a full schedule of the Hospital accommodation.
[KHS/AD3/F19]
1905-1914
Secretary’s file. King’s College Hospital Removal Fund, annual (year ending in August) statements of receipts and payments, compiled by the Hospital’s Auditors, Messrs Prideaux, Frere, Brown & Co., with related correspondence.
[KHS/AD3/F20]
1907-1909
Secretary’s File. King’s College Hospital Removal Fund. Building Committee, correspondence relating to the excavation of ground for parts of the new Hospital building.
[KHS/AD3/F20a]
1908
Copy of Indenture between the Governors of King’s College Hospital and Andrew James Walke relating to the surrender of land in Denmark Hill.
[KHS/AD3/F21]
1907-1910
Secretary’s File. Medical School Sub-committee of the Committee of Management. Papers relating to arrangements for the Hospital’s take-over of the Advanced Medical School (consequent to the King's College London Transfer Act), notably including a list of the Subcommittees’ recommendations concerning the Hospital’s financial obligations and the provision of accommodation of the School, a statement of accounts for the Advanced Medical School, 1907-1908 and 1908-1909, an estimate of the receipts and expenditure for 1909-1910, papers relating to funding for the Medical School, a King’s College Hospital Medical School prospectus for session 1908-1909.
[KHS/AD3/F22]
1907-1914
Secretary’s File. Correspondence and papers relating to building services for the new Hospital at Denmark Hill. Includes letters from the South London Electric Supply Corporation Ltd and correspondence concerning the tender for the supply of steam and electricity; letters from the Metropolitan Water Board; estimates for engineering services by James Slater & Co. and Secretary’s correspondence with William A Pite, Consultant Architect, concerning the scheme; Secretary’s correspondence with Professor DS Capper, Consulting Engineer and the latter’s reports on the tenders submitted for heating, lighting, ventilation, and water supply requirements of the Hospital.
[KHS/AD3/F23]
1907, 1913-1914
King’s College Hospital, Secretary’s letters from William A Pite, architect, relating to building matters.
[KHS/AD3/F24]
1908
[Secretary’s File]. Draft instructions for tender, and tender, with King’s College Hospital conditions of contract, submitted by William A Pite, Architect, for the first section of the new buildings at Denmark Hill.
[KHS/AD3/F24A]
1908
Secretary’s File. Agreement between the Committee of the Removal of King’s College Hospital and Messr. H Sabey & Co., for yearly tenancy of land at Denmark Hill, Camberwell.
[KHS/AD3/F24B]
1908
Secretary’s file. Correspondence relating to the ceremony of cutting the first turf for the new King’s College Hospital at Denmark Hill.
[KHS/AD3/F25]
1908-1909
Secretary’s File. ‘The Platanes’. Correspondence and papers relating to the decision by King’s College Hospital of whether to accept a gift of the lease of ‘The Platanes’ house, Champion Hill for the purpose of a Nursing Home affiliated to the Hospital. Includes the Secretary’s confidential preliminary report on the property; individual opinions of senior medical staff in response to a questionnaire sent out by the Secretary on behalf of the Committee of Management; a photograph and descriptions of the accommodation.
[KHS/AD3/F26]
1908-1914
King’s College Hospital, Secretary’s letters from Winter, Bothamley…& Co., solicitors, concerning the Removal Fund, and legal opinion as to the building contracts.
[KHS/AD3/F27]
1909
Secretary’s File. Correspondence and papers relating to the ceremony for the laying of the foundation stone of the new King’s College Hospital, notably including a full seating and layout plan, and correspondence relating to attendance.
[KHS/AD3/F28]
1909
Secretary’s File. Index of acceptances for the laying of the foundation stone ceremony for the new King’s College Hospital, with seat number or position by each name.
[KHS/AD3/F29]
1909
Secretary’s File. Papers relating to the ceremony for the laying of the foundation stone of the new King’s College Hospital, notably including texts of the address to the King and Queen and the prayers to be spoken by the Bishop of Southwark; ceremony programme; platform guest list and seating plan and invitation.
[KHS/AD3/F30]
1909-1915
[Secretary’s File]. Messrs. Kirkland and Capper, Consulting Engineers for King’s College Hospital. Statements of account and payments made for works carried out by engineering and electrical contractors.
[KHS/AD3/F31]
1911-1913
Secretary’s File. Correspondence and papers mainly relating to equipment and furniture requirements for the new Hospital at Denmark Hill and the removal of equipment and furniture from the old Hospital in Portugal Street.
[KHS/AD3/F32]
1911-1916
Secretary’s File. Annual returns to the King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London regarding the financial position of the Removal Fund, with related correspondence.
[KHS/AD3/F32a]
[1912]
Secretary’s File. Notice for the sale or leasing, by public tender, of the King’s College Hospital site in Portugal Street, including particulars and plans of the site and conditions of tender.
[KHS/AD3/F33]
1912
[Secretary’s File]. King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill building, ‘contract O’, specification for wiring and fittings for electric light of the ward blocks no. 4 – 8, chapel and linen department, by [?] William A Pite, Architect and Professor DS Capper, Consulting Engineer.
[KHS/AD3/F34]
1912
Secretary’s File. Inventory of furniture in King’s College Hospital. Indexed.
[KHS/AD3/F35]
[1912]
Secretary’s File. Inventory of furnishings and equipment on the ground and basement floors of the Administrative Block in the new Hospital at Denmark Hill, arranged by room and including numbers of each item and name of supplier.
[KHS/AD3/F36]
[1912]
Secretary’s File. Inventory, with annotations (meaning not known), of Hospital equipment and furniture.
[KHS/AD3/F37]
[1912-1913]
Secretary’s File. Inventory of Hospital equipment and furniture, arranged by ward, noting what is to be removed to a similar position, removed to a different position, repaired or overhauled, or condemned.
[KHS/AD3/F38]
1912-1913
Secretary’s File. King’s College Hospital, Equipment Committee. Letters from firms relating to furnishings and equipment for the new Hospital at Denmark Hill, including brochures from makers of hospital beds.
[KHS/AD3/F39]
1912-1913
Secretary’s File. King’s College Hospital, Equipment Committee. Correspondence and papers relating to the supply of hospital furniture and equipment.
[KHS/AD3/F40]
1913
Secretary’s File. King’s College Hospital, Equipment Committee. Letters from furnishing and decorating firms relating to orders, and Secretary’s notes on a meeting of the EC.
[KHS/AD3/F41]
1913-1915
Secretary’s File. EC. Letters, from firms, including quotes, concerning orders for furniture and equipment.
[KHS/AD3/F42]
1912-1913
[Secretary’s File]. King’s College Hospital Removal Fund, various accounts, mainly for building works on the new Hospital.
[KHS/AD3/F43]
1912-1913
[Secretary’s File]. Statements of account, receipts and invoices relating to building works, repairs, utility supplies, taxes, rents, rates and insurance for the Platanes and 156 Denmark Hill.
[KHS/AD3/F44]
1912-1915
Secretary’s File. Letters and estimates from Harrods Ltd., concerning orders of furniture and equipment, accounts, works for the new Hospital (including 4 samples of floor linoleum). Also includes a list and plan of proposed positions of telephones in the Hospital prepared by DS Capper, Consulting Engineer, and drawing by S Maw, Son & Sons of operating theatre furniture and special hospital cupboards and lockers.
[KHS/AD3/F45]
1913-1914
Secretary’s File. Accounts for equipment and furniture supplied by Harrods for the new King’s College Hospital.
[KHS/AD3/F46]
1913
Secretary’s File. Correspondence and papers relating to arrangements for the visit of the King and Queen, for the opening ceremony of the new King’s College Hospital, 26 July, notably including ceremony programme.
[KHS/AD3/F47]
1913
Secretary’s File. Estimates and bills for X-Ray and electro-medical equipment, supplied to the King’s College Hospital Removal Fund by W Watson & Sons Ltd.
[KHS/AD3/F48]
1913
Secretary’s File. Tenders with conditions of contract for furnishings, and tenders from operating theatre equipment and for X-Ray Department apparatus and furniture for the new Hospital at Denmark Hill. Also includes drafts of the tender with conditions of contract for furnishings and copies of the Secretary’s letters to firms inviting them to tender.
[KHS/AD3/F49]
1913-1914
Secretary’s File. Papers relating to the supply of equipment and furniture for the new Hospital at Denmark Hill notably include a photograph of a dental operating chair.
[KHS/AD3/F50]
1913-1915
[Secretary’s File]. Statements of account from engineering and electrical contractors.
[HS/AD3/F51]
1913-1915
Secretary’s File. Secretary’s letters from Lloyds Bank Ltd., Strand, relating to the Removal Fund account.
[KHS/AD3/F52]
1914-1915
[Secretary’s File]. King’s College Hospital Removal Fund, copybook for orders of furniture, medical and surgical equipment and materials for the new Hospital.
[KHS/AD3/F53]
1915-1916
[Secretary’s File]. King’s College Hospital Removal Fund, copybook for orders of furniture, medical and surgical equipment and materials for the new Hospital.
[KHS/AD3/F54]
1914-1915
[Secretary’s File]. Invoices for building works, equipment and hospital sundries.
[KHS/AD3/F55]
1914-1915
Secretary’s File. ‘Paid invoices’, bills and receipts, for surgical instruments, furnishings, equipment, utilities, and building works for the new Hospital.
[KHS/AD3/F56]
1916
Secretary’s File. Invoices and receipts for payment, for building works, furniture and equipment.
[KHS/AD3/F57]
1914-1916
[Secretary’s File]. Various accounts relating to the King’s College Hospital Removal Fund, the Building Fund, and the Medical School Building and Equipment Fund, including summarized accounts for 1903 – 1914/1915, annual accounts for 1915, lists of donations promised and received.
[KHS/AD3/F58]
1914-1916
Secretary’s File. King’s College Hospital Removal Fund, and the Special Appeal Committee. Correspondence relating to appeals for funds. Also includes ‘An Appeal to Residents of South London’ 1915. Printed pamphlet.
[KHS/AD3/F59]
1918
Secretary’s File. Statements of the final accounts, with related correspondence, for all works done by Foster & Dicksee, Ltd., contractors, and William A Pite, Architect, on the erection of the new Hospital building, and a surveyor’s report containing a summary analysis, general and tabulated statements of the final accounts.
[ KHS/AD3/F60]
1919-1920
[Secretary’s File]. King’s College Hospital also called (for purposes of Military Occupation) the Fourth London General Hospital. Papers prepared by Fowler & Hugman, Surveyors: ‘Estimate for making good Damage and Redecorating…the Hospital buildings used by the Military Authorities’, ‘Schedule of Dilapidations and Specification of Works’: part no. 1, ‘general conditions of contract and general specification applying to the whole of the works’, and part no. 2, ‘detailed specification for the outpatient and Casualty Department, Bathing Establishment, Electrical and Dental Departments and Staircases and Lifts’; tenders to the Committee of Management fort the first section dilapidations – Outpatient Department; statements of claim for dilapidations to the main corridor and annexes, Isolation Block, Pathological Department, Ward Blocks 6 – 9, administration departments, Nurses’ home, Outpatient Departments, and a summarised statement of Surveyors’ fees and outgoings.
[KHS/AD3/F60A]
1921-1932
Secretary’s File. Licenses granted by King’s College Hospital to lessees, to make alterations to: 110 High Road, Kilburn, 1921; 114 High Road Kilburn, 1929; 28 Quex Road, Kilburn, 1921; 32 Quex Road, Kilburn, 1921 and 38 Quex Road, Kilburn, 1932.
[KHS/AD3/F61]
1928
[House Governor’s Office File and Secretary’s File]. Memorandum on the ‘proposed scheme for medical education at King's College London and King’s College Hospital’, by WR Halliday.
[KHS/AD3/F62]
1933-1935
House Governor’s Office File and Secretary’s File. Papers relating to the proposed Paying Patients Block, designed by Messrs. Collcutt & Hamp, Architects. Includes tenders and two signed and sealed agreements forming the building contract between King’s College Hospital and Messrs. Gee Walker & Slater Ltd., and lists of subcontractors’ building works estimates for the Maids Home and for the Nurses’ Home.
[KHS/AD3/F63]
1935
[Secretary’s File]. Estimate prepared by William A Pite, Son & Fairweather, architects, for the proposed extension to the west block (nurses’ home) and centre block (maid’s home) of the administration unit of King’s College Hospital. 21 estimates and summaries.
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