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Sources Guide: Local History: London A&M

The archives and manuscripts collections cover a broad range of subjects dating from the Middle Ages to the 21st century This is one of a series of thematic guides designed to assist users of the collections to identify material of particular relevance to their research. Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue. from which material can be ordered for consultation in the Rare Materials Room. In some cases full catalogues of archive collections are not yet available online Hard copy versions can be found in the Library’s Rare Materials Room or by request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

London, general

Material relating to specific areas:

Central London

West London

North London

East London

South London

London, general

Material dealing with the metropolis as a whole, straddling more than one of the geographical areas listed later, or whose place of origin is not exactly known

Sub-headings: Government; Business Records; Societies, Associations and Institutions; Legal records; Education; General Practice; Personal Papers, including historical and analytical material

Government

Transportation: warrant signed by the King authorising removal of named convicts from gaols including the Old Bailey to the hulks at Portsmouth prior to transportation to Australia, 1823 MS.7830/14

Business Records

Anonymous manufacturing apothecary or chemist, London area: production books, 1741-95 MSS.5940-1
Apothecary's Stock Book, probably from London: inventory of stock, stock ledger and recipes of an unidentified apothecary, perhaps based in London, 1635-7 and n.d. MS.7646
Chemical and pharmaceutical patents granted to London figures, 1840-1 MS.5896
Mrs. Colson, manager of a nursery, and Joseph Colson, corn-chandler, both probably based in London: two bills relating to the Colsons and to the landowner John Van den Bempde, 1700-14 MS.7677
Lewis and Burrows Drug Stores Ltd: managing company for pharmacies in several London areas, 1895–1953 GC/134
Pharmacists records: Miscellaneous unidentified: 1873–1917, 1925–51 GC/103
Edward Slee and Co.: records of manufacture and promotion of Dr Joshua Webster's English Diet Drink, a patent medicine, based at successive locations in the London area (Kennington, Lee, Harlington and Hounslow), 1798-1931 MSS.7164-7201
Wellcome Foundation: Material relating to pharmaceutical company’s London operations and establishments, 1880s–1990s WF

Societies, Associations and Institutions

Askesian Society, forum for scientific discussion, incorporating the British Mineralogical Association from 1806 (members, often London Quakers, including Luke Howard and William Allen): minutes of experiments and demonstrations, 1801-3, 1806-8 MS.6135
Association of (District) Community Physicians in Greater London: minutes, 1976, 1980 SA/DCP/A.3
Association of Registered Medical Women (later London Association of the Medical Women’s Federation): minutes, other documents, financial records, memorabilia, 1879–1916 SA/MWF

Biochemical Society: based in London, also file on London Regional Section, 1991-5 SA/BIO

British Medical Association: Includes files on London Public Medical Services 1912–44, and on various London medical institutions and clinics SA/BMA
British Social Hygiene Council (formerly National Council for Combatting Venereal Diseases) (f. 1914): includes minutes of the London and Home Counties Branch/London Committee, 1917–40 SA/BSH

Brook Advisory Centres: annual reports of London Centres, 1973-8 SA/ALR/F.4

Eugenics Society: records of their relations with numerous London institutions and societies, 1920s-60s [permission from Galton Institute required] SA/EUG
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Family Planning Association (f. 1930 as National Birth Control Association): records from a number of local clinics as well as central institutional files dealing with relations with clinics, federations and branches in London, with regional hospital boards, and with local authorities, 1920s–70s, also correspondence with various London societies and institutions, material on London premises of the Association, etc SA/FPA
Health Visitors’ Association: From 1896 to 1906 was an association of Women Sanitary Inspectors and Health Visitors employed in London boroughs SA/HVA
Hunterian Society of London: records and manuscript collection, 1748-1985 MSS.5520-5624 Correspondence concerning manuscript catalogue, 1988-90 MS.5778

Tim LANG (b.1948): Papers of the London Food Commission 1984-1990, in sections A, B and C, plus reports produced by the Greater London Council (GLC) PP/TLA

London Literary Society: certificate admitting Samuel Carey; signatories include George Birkbeck MD (1776-1841), 1823 MS.7274/2
London Society for Self-Supporting Dispensaries: letter by TD Hawker, Secretary, relating to the society and to his leaving the Medical Society of London, 1852 MS.6158
London Vaccine Institution: letters from Sir Francis Milman, physician-in-ordinary to George III, and John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich, accepting Vice-Presidency, 1808 MS.7337/30 & 64
Lyceum Medicum Londinense, medical society: minute books, 1792-1805 MS/MSL/140
Medical Pilgrims: records of ‘Pilgrimages’ to London, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1964, 1978 SA/PIL
Medical Society of London: manuscript collection MS/MSL; MSS.6147-6177 Prize essay, 1840 MS.5463 Microfilmed minutes and correspondence, 1773-1937 MF/4
Medico-Botanical Society of London: correspondence, 1815-52 MSS.6824 & 7148
Military Hospital Society, London, dining club: membership list, minutes and accounts, 1764-7 MS.5404
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Chairman’s files of correspondence with local branches in London area 1954–77 SA/MSS
National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis: London committee minutes, 1905 SA/NPT/A.3/2
National Birthday Trust Fund (f.1928): Correspondence with London hospitals and clinics in receipt of donations, etc 1920s–50s SA/NBT
Pathological Society of London: undated letter from John William Ogle FRCP requesting a paper for the Society, late C. 19th MS.7364/16
Queen’s Nursing Institute (f. 1889): Registers of Inspectors’ reports, 1890s, include London districts; records of conferences, etc, for London area, 1907–36; records of Elizabeth Fry’s Protestant Nursing Sisters/Nursing Sisters’ Institution, 1841–1939; minutes of the Federation of Metropolitan Nursing Associations, 1909–21, 1943–64 SA/QNI
Royal Army Medical Corps Muniment Collection: Souvenirs and some reports of London Hospitals during First World War; History of the 1st London Sanitary Companyc.1908–20s RAMC

Royal Society for Public Health and predecessors: records relating to London property in London owned by the Sanitary Institute, Royal Sanitary Institute and Royal Society of Health c.1930s-70s; and by The Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, 1900-64 SA/RSP

St Albans Medical Club, dining society originally meeting at St Albans Tavern, Pall Mall: Treasurer's book, 1789-1820 MS.6216 Administrative records, 1821-1990 MSS.6994-7017
Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge, learned society and dining club formed of physicians and surgeons from London institutions: proceedings and later notes, letters by members, etc, 1790-1882 MS.5282
Society of Medical Officers of Health/ Society of Community Health/ Society of Public Health (1856–1997): The Society originated as the Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of Health Administrative: records from 1856 until 1873 when it became a national association, Much material in section K, mainly generated by the Society, relates to public health in London in late C. 19th. Also records of the Society’s Metropolitan Branch, 1934–66, and London and Home Counties Branch and Thames Regions, 1965–81 Files in section L on London housing survey (1964), local government organisation and health services in London SA/SMO
Society of Noviomagians, convivial club composed of members of the Society of Antiquaries of London: proceedings, including original document recording expenditure of Leathersellers' Company, 1607-8, 1830-1905 MSS.5305-7
Sydenham Medical Club, dining society: Treasurer's books, membership lists, photograph album, 1796-1928 MSS.6208-15
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: Correspondence with numerous London–based institutions, 1898–1985 WA/HMM

Other societies based in London but national rather than local in their membership are represented: for example, the National Vaccine Establishment, the Odontological Society, the Physiological Society, the various Royal Colleges and the Royal Society of London For details see catalogues (One item relating to the physical fabric of the Royal College of Surgeons has been included, under Central London)

Legal records

Ludwig Freyberger (d. 1934): Postmortem reports for London coroners’ courts, 1907–13 GC/140

Education

Professor Norman Ashton: materials relating to his own years of medical education, 1930s, and later representation on various committees, etc, of the University of London and other institutions, 1950s–80s PP/ASH

Biochemical Society: London Regional Section file includes material on biochemistry education, 1990s SA/BIO/B.23
Dionysius Lardner: letters including those relating to chair of natural philosophy at London University, 1827-9 MS.5490
London Committee of Licensed Teachers of Anatomy (f. 1880): Records of this committee, which dealt with the distribution of bodies for anatomical dissection between London medical schools, from 1880 SA/LCA
London Postgraduate Course: letters, papers and financial records, 1894-6 MS.6241

Sir John McMichael: file relating to his involvement with University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1971 and with various other bodies dealing with medical education, 1940s-80s PP/JMM
Medical Women’s Federation: various materials relating to women’s medical education in London, including campaign against closure of certain London medical schools to women in the 1920s SA/MWF
David Morris: Balint Paediatric Seminars: Transcripts of discussions between paediatricians and psychoanalysts from various London hospitals, 1975-7, with memorabilia of Morris GC/169

Reminiscences of London medical students, 1930s-1950s: Letters and personal accounts, 2002-6 MS.8593
– see also Personal Papers: Florence Fenwick Miller

General Practice

Balint General Practice Seminars: Held at University College and St Pancras Hospitals, led by Balint, 1966-70 GC/216
Oral History of General Practice, 1935-52: tapes and transcripts interviews with the following London GPs: Geoffrey Hirst, John Swan, Michael Liebson, Kathleen Norton, Anthony Ryle, Eric Grogono, 1993-4; see also under specific areas GP/29

Personal Papers, including historical and analytical material

Sir Thomas Barlow (1845-1945), physician: Barlow practised in London and throughout his papers casenotes etc from London institutions (primarily the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street), can be found PP/BAR Items relating to specific parts of London have been indexed separately in the relevant area Relating to an unidentified location is: Speech at the opening of an unidentified 'holiday school' for London children, c. 1904 PP/BAR/G/4
Nicholas Carlisle, antiquary: notes for an unpublished second edition of his Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales (1818), including files in Middlesex, Surrey, Essex and Kent, 1818-24 MSS.5373-4
Herbert Davies Chalke (1897–1979): Medical Officer of Health, papers include articles and addresses re the hygiene of London icecream parlours c.1936, as well as material re public health and welfare in London, with special reference to the care of the elderly in the community and the rehousing of families GC/200
Sir Zachary Cope: materials for a history of dispensaries, including details of those in London, and of private medical schools in London, 1957-65 MSS.1863-70
Sir (William) Allen Daley (1887–1969): Chief Medical Officer of the London County Council 1939–52: his papers reflect this period of his career in public health PP/AWD; see also his chapter on 'The London County Council and Developments in the Mental Health Services’ in ‘The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968’ MS.7913/20
John Dee, London-based alchemist: translation into French by Albert Poisson of 17th century life of Dee, c.1890 MS.3938
John Dixon, Medical Officer of Health, Bermondsey: notes on death rates for London, 1877 MS.2160 Notes on London's water supply, 1877-80 MS.2161
Lyon Falkener: papers including notes and photographs relating to service at Claybury Asylum, Metropolitan Hospital, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Western Fever Hospital, 1861-1948 MSS.6802-9
Alec William James Haggis: research into medical licensing in England including Diocese of London, 1937-46 MS.5345
Ronald Hare (1899-1986): papers include his medical education and work as a bacteriologist in several leading London hospitals, 1918-60, also his war service in World War I with the 2/25 London Cyclist Battalion PP/HAR
Harold Burnett Hewitt (b. 1915), pathologist and radiologist: biographical memoir ‘Getting By Without Ambition’ includes his childhood in Palmer’s Green, education at St Paul’s School, career as medical student, and later career as cancer researcher attached to various London institutions GC/222
Hodgkin family, including Thomas Hodgkin MD and Luke Howard: papers generated by interlinked London Quaker families, the Hodgkins resident first in Pentonville and then in Tottenham, the Howards in Plaistow Letters and autobiographical fragments contain many references to local matters; examples include material on Thomas Hodgkin's time at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, his service to the London Dispensary, and correspondence with Peter Bedford concerning a school at Croydon; or John Hodgkin junior's letters describing travels in South London and the Surrey hinterland in 1823, and his autobiography Full catalogue available, 1737-1980 PP/HO
Donald Hunter CBE FRCP (1898–1977): reports on visits to London factories in connection with occupational health, 1940s–70s PP/HUN
J R Hutchinson (c.1880–1955) and W H Bradley (1898–1975), of the Ministry of Health: Files on epidemics in London institutions; vaccination incidents, 1900s-50s; epidemiology of upper respiratory tract infections in air raid shelters, 1940s; material on the Great Smog, 1952–5 PP/JRH
Robert Rutson James F.R.C.S. (1881-1959), medical historian: correspondence with other medical historians including material on London medical practitioners, 1934-8 and n.d. MS.7493

Professor Earl J King (1901-1962), professor of chemical pathology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: diary containing notes for speeches to various bodies on various occasions, c. 1952-1961, including several to the Savage Club GC/271

John Bishop King, medical practitioner at Penang: diary, including (p7) description of journey down Thames in 1855 at start of voyage to India, 1855-66 and n.d. MS.7630
Lister family, including Joseph Lister (1st Baron Lister): letters and administrative documents including material with reference to London and particularly to Upton, Essex See East London section
Sir Robert Macintosh: diaries relating to visits to anaesthetics departments of London hospitals, 1938, 1947, and travel diaries for London visits of 1964–5 PP/RRM/C
Louisa Martindale: diaries and case notes, covering life in London, 1900-1950 MSS.3479-3487
Lady (May) Mellanby: records of surveys of teeth of children in LCC and private schools, 1940s-50s PP/MEL/H
Florence Fenwick Miller: autobiography includes accounts of her life as early woman medical student, involvement with radical circles, activities as public speaker in London, election to London School Board, etc, 1870s-80s GC/228
Thomas Paget: undertaking to pay the Royal College of Surgeons a fee if he should practise surgery in London, 1818 MS.7364/55
James Patterson, teacher of deaf and dumb, Manchester: diary, including record of a visit to London over Christmas/New Year 1858/59, in which he walks about the city, visits the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Crystal Palace at Sydenham and another establishment of that name at Great Portland Street, and witnesses some mesmeric experiments, 1858-1859 MSS.7352-7353
John Lewis Petit M.D. (1736-1780): notes of expenses whilst living in London shortly after qualifying as a doctor, 1761-1769 MS.3855
Sir William Petty: Another Essay in Politicall Arithmetic concerning the growth of the citty of London (1683), contemporary transcript c.1690 MS.3868
(George) Eric Campbell Pritchard (1864–1943): Unpublished autobiography ‘Harley Street Calling: some reminiscences of a medical man’; includes references to work for infant welfare in London GC/49
Recipe book, medical, apparently with a London provenance, late C. 17th-18th MS.7822

Sir Bernard Spilsbury: notes on autopsies performed by him 1905-33 relate mainly to various areas of London PP/SPI
Sir Henry Wellcome: as well as material relating to his various enterprises based in London, his papers, 1800-1985, reflect his social life and involvement with various London societies and associations (e.g. American Society in London, Freemasons), and include files on his property in Gloucester Gate, Regents Park WA/HSW
Charles Wilcocks CMG FRCP (1896–1977): Unpublished autobiography ‘A Tropical Doctor in Africa and London’ GC/55

Material relating to specific areas

Central London

City of London, City of Westminster Also included are the inner areas of several adjoining boroughs; clockwise, these are Camden (south of Euston Road), Islington (south of Pentonville Road and City Road), Hackney (south of Old Street), Tower Hamlets (west of Brick Lane and Leman Street), Southwark (north-west of a line drawn from Tower Bridge through Bricklayer's Arms to Elephant & Castle) and Lambeth (north of Lambeth Road)

Sub-headings: Hospitals and Institutions; General Practitioners; Business Records, including commercial utilities; Local Government; Livery Companies; Legal Papers; Education; Personal Papers; Miscellaneous

Hospitals and Institutions

Benevolent Institution, Strand: card promoting Dr Andrew Thynne as a candidate for Physician, 1816 MS.7280/2 Two notes from governors of the Institution appointing proxies to vote on their behalf for Dr Thynne, 1816 MS.7734/57
Bethlehem Hospital: Letter asking that Dr Keith be appointed physician, 1708 MS.7227/1 Letter from W Charles Hood at Bethlehem Royal Hospital to the Royal College of Surgeons of England, describing attendance of students at the Hospital, 1862 MS.7227/2 Letters by Edward Thomas Monro FRCP (1790-1856) and Thomas Monro FRCP (1759-1833), physicians at Bethlem Hospital, 1822-54 and n.d. MS.7337/55-63; see also South London: Hospitals and Institutions: Maudsley Hospital
Bishop's Court Dispensary: letter by Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth (1790-1868), Lord Chancellor, concerning the Dispensary's anniversary dinner, 1863 MS.7825/21
Central London Ophthalmic Hospital: draft announcement to the Times, by the surgeon Henry Haynes Walton FRCS (1816-1889), concerning enlargement of hospital's medical staff n.d. MS.7826/29
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: legal documents, etc, relating to Society’s premises in Tavistock House, 1930–62, and move to 14 Bedford Row, 1969, including photographs SA/CSP
Charterhouse Rheumatism Clinic: Ephemera, cuttings and reprints concerning, 1930s–60s GC/47
City of London (Victoria Park) Hospital for Consumption and Chest Diseases: photograph of open-air treatment, c. 1900 SA/CSP/Q.1
Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, University of London: files relating to Robert Henry Stewart Thompson’s association with, including historical items, 1965-89 PP/RHT/A.11
Cowdray Club, London (for Nurses), Cavendish Square W1: Lady Cowdray’s papers concerning, 1916–39 SA/NFN/B.19
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (formerly New) Hospital: historical material and memorabilia, campaign against closure, 1870s-1980s SA/MWF/C.44-9
City Temple Literary Society: file of correspondence with Eugenics Society, 1920–31[permission from Galton Institute required] SA/EUG/D.56

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Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991 SA/FPA
Florence Nightingale Hospital: file relating to in Medical Women’s Federation archive SA/MWF/C.31
General Dispensary: see Personal Papers, John Coakley Lettsom
General Lying-In Hospital: National Birthday Trust Fund correspondence with re donations, 1929–49 SA/NBT/F.6/1
Guy's Hospital: pharmacopœia, 1743 MS.6164 Pharmacopœia, in recipe collection, 1746 MS.7152 List of wards and pharmacopœia, in papers of Carr family Mid 18th century MS.5203 Manuscript testimonial for Dr Oliver Barron on his moving to Liverpool, signed by senior figures at Guy's (William Babington, James Curry, John Haighton and John Relph), 1803 MS.7326/1 Case records, amongst lecture notes etc, 1804-1805 MSS.1682-1683 Case notes, 1810 MS.5267 Pharmacopœia, interleaved (Sir William Withey Gull's copy), 1838 MS.2654 Dental school, anæsthetists' minute book, 1889-1895 MS.5977 Printed letter to a VAD nurse detailing recent developments at the hospital, 1916 MS.7891/1; Student notebooks of W Sampson Handley FRCS (1872–1962), 1894 GC/152; Robert Henry Stewart Thompson’s files relating to his association with, 1935-67 PP/RHT/A.7; photographs, of Snowsfield Hut, new physiotherapy centre, c. 1967 and physiotherapists working with patients, 1972 SA/CSP/Q.1; materials for proposed, unpublished, history, ‘The Guy’s Story: Personality of a Hospital’, by David Stafford-Clark, 1978–87 PP/DSC/B.3/4; Professor Cyril Chantler: ‘Guy’s Hospital: A Case Study, 1985-1988’ MS.8610 See also Personal Papers, Thomas Frederick Isaacson Blaker
Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street: casebook kept by Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake including this institution, 1891-2 MS.5794; Philip Rainsford Evans’ papers reflect his work at the hospital, and include 2 files on its history PP/PRE; photographs of opening of hydrotherapy pool, 1965 SA/CSP/Q.1 See also General Section: Personal Papers: Sir Thomas Barlow
Infants Hospital, Westminster: see General: Personal Papers: E C Pritchard
Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency: chapter by Marjorie E. Franklin in ‘The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968’ MS.7913/57
London Child Guidance Clinic: material relating to John Bowlby’s association with, 1935-87 PP/BOW/C.3; Robina Addis’s files concerning her involvement with, mainly 1930s PP/ADD/C.3
London Phrenological Institution: letter by Stackpool Edward O'Dell, founder of the Institution, 1880 MS.7364/12
London Vaccine Institution: annual report 1809/10 MS.5120/71 Facts respecting the London Vaccine Institution in papers of Charles Murray c.1807-8 MS.5244/133 Diplomas of honorary membership, 1816-32 MS.5247; MS.5945/9 Correspondence, 1808, 1817 and n.d. MS.5248
Medical Pilgrims: 50th Anniversary Meeting at The London and Guy’s, 1978 SA/PIL
Medical theatre, 58 Aldersgate Street: certificate, 1830 MS.7274/3
Mental After-Care Association: correspondence and legal documents, and photographs, relating to their premises at Eagle House, Jermyn St, W1, Bainbridge House, WC1, and Bedford Square WC1, 1960s–90s SA/MAC
Metropolitan Hospital: see General section, Personal Papers: Lyon Falkener
Middlesex Hospital: letter by Henry Warburton, radical politician, concerning constitution of the hospital, 1829 MS.7337/105: Noel Gordon Harris’s files relating to his period at the Middlesex, 1938-59 PP/NGH
Mothers’ Clinic: established by Marie Stopes in 1921, moved to Whitfield St WC. 1 in 1926 PP/MCS; – additional material in Eugenics Society archives (permission from Galton Institute required) SA/EUG/K
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Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on Camden, Hackney, Islington, Lambeth, Southwark, Westminster Branches, 1950s-70s SA/MSS/C
National Birthday Trust Fund (f. 1928): material relating to premises in central London, especially 57 Lower Belgrave St, SW1 1929–89; events at the House of Commons, 1956–60; fundraising events at various London landmarks, theatres, hotels, etc, 1929–56 SA/NBT
National Heart Hospital: Sir James Keith Ross’s files, mainly to do with early heart transplantation operations, 1960s GC/238
National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic (became the National Hospital for Nervous Disease, Queen Square): Abstracts of Minutes, 1859-64 GC/83/13
New Hospital for Women: case notes by Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake, 1895 MS.5795; see also Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, above
Public Dispensary, Clare Market: letters from Sir Hugh McAlmont Cairns (1819-1885) (later 1st Earl Cairns and Lord Chancellor) and Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selbourne (1812-1895), Lord Chancellor, concerning the Public Dispensary, 1866-75 MS.7825/4 & 17
Queen’s Nursing Institute (f. 1889): deposited reports of Westminster Nursing Committee, 1890–[1947], Chelsea, Pimlico and Belgravia Nursing Association, 1889–1946, and Westminster and Chelsea Nursing Association, 1947–73 SA/QNI
Royal Army Medical College, Millbank: various items concerning, 1900s–70s RAMC
Royal College of Surgeons: letter from William Chadwell Mylne, engineer to the New River Company, to the architect George Dance the younger, concerning water supply, 1819 MS.7358/23
Royal Free Hospital: letter concerning the Hospital's anniversary festival, 1850 MS.7326/5 Casebook kept by Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake including this institution, 1891-2 MS.5794; Photographs taken in Department of Physical Medicine, c. 1948, and of short-wave diathermy c. 1967 SA/CSP/Q.1 – see also Education: London Medical School for Women, and Personal Papers: Elizabeth Batten
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: material relating to Society’s premises at Manson House, 26 Portland Place W1, 1926–77 WTI/RST/B
Royal Universal Infirmary for Children, Waterloo Bridge Road: proxy voting slips, signed by various of the Infirmary's governors, 1829 MS.7656
Saint Bartholomew's Hospital: receipts for rents of tenements in Smithfield, 1659-65 MS.5257 Pharmacopœia, 1743 MS.6164 Typescript extracts from Court minutes of 1747 and 1821, made by Sir D'Arcy Power c. 1900 MS.627 Letter by George North, numismatist and antiquary, to Dr Anthony Askew (1722-1774), Physician of St Bartholomew's Hospital, referring to Rahere, founder of St Bartholomew's, 1756 MS.7368/5 Clinical notes probably by a House Physician, including patients with gun-shot wounds inflicted during the Gordon Riots, 1777-81 MS.4337 Letter sending patient for examination, 1817 MS.5258 Lease of premises in Smithfield to James Arnold, surgical instrument manufacturer, 1845 MS.5272 Letter by Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton arguing for research laboratory at St Bartholomew's, 1900 MS.5970 Photographs of nurses in Humphry Rolleston's album, 1879-1888 MS.6122/83,84,141 Clinical records by ECC Bramwell of four cases in Casualty Ward, 1887 MS.1342; student lecture notes and case notes, of Ernest George Pringle, 1900–2, GC/34; Lord Horder’s diaries of patient appointments, 1907–55, GP/31; Sir Antony Bowlby, files and memorabilia, 1880-1937, including material on building works, 1900-5 GC/181/B; Records of psychotherapy group for dermatology patients run by S H Foulkes, 1946–50 PP/SHF See also General section, Personal Papers: Lyon Falkener; Testimonials, certificates etc - see indices
Saint George's Hospital: 2 receipts recording payments towards the support of the hospital, 1760-1844 MS.7903/3-4 Printed and illustrated ticket entering Thomas Mitchell as a student at St George's Hospital, London, signed by various medical figures including the anatomist John Hunter (1728-1793), 1786 MS.7847/15 Letters from Henry Vandyke Carter while medical student here, 1848-1853 MS.5810 Journals by Henry Vandyke Carter while medical student and Demonstrator in Anatomy, 1848-1852, 1857-1858 MSS.5816, 5818 Casebook for which Heywood Smith was awarded the prize for Clinical Surgery, 1863 MS.4635; correspondence between hospital’s Hunterian Society and Eugenics Society, 1935 [permission required from Galton Institute] SA/EUG/D.102 PLEASE NOTE: this collection is being digitised and parts of it will be unavailable during the process. Check the schedule for further information.] See also Personal Papers: Charles Hunter, and P M Clewett; Testimonials, certificates etc – see indices
Saint John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin: case notes by James Startin, 1877-1880 MS.6026 See also Personal Papers: Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake
St Mark’s Hospital: Papers of Sir Allen Daley while on the Board of Governors’ Finance Committee, 1957–64 PP/AWD; Sir Francis Avery Jones’ file re St Mark’s, 1972–7 GC/198
Saint Mary's Hospital: notes on three medical cases taken by Arthur Cyril Ransome, 1892 MS.5983; Physiotherapy treatment room, c. 1910 SA/CSP/Q.1; Leonard Colebrook: diary and some other material relating to his period at, 1920s-40s PP/COL; Dr John Dalziel Wyndham Pearce (1905-1994), Clinical psychiatrist: file of letters re appointment to posts and membership of Board of Governors, 1948–70 GC/192 See also Personal Papers: Peter Karl Lewin, and General: Personal Papers: Ronald Hare
Saint Thomas's Hospital: clinical notes and Catalogus Medicamentorum c. 1730 MS.4382 Pharmacopœia, 1743 MS.6164 Pharmacopœia, in recipe collection, 1746 MS.5752 Pharmacopœia, in collection of notes etc by John Parkinson of Wandsworth c. 1747 MS.6148 Account book of Thomas Baker, Surgeon from 1739, naming apprentices, dressers and students, 1732-70 MS.5781 Papers on ownership of anatomical collection, 1825-9 MS.7804 Catalogue of specimens in Physiological Laboratory, by Theodore Dyke Acland c. 1880 MS.839 Case notes by Theodore Dyke Acland including cases at St Thomas's Hospital, 1893-1914 MS.845; William Walters Sargant’s files relating to Department of Psychological Medicine, 1948–65 PP/WWS/B.2; Sir John McMichael’s files on proposed amalgamation with Westminster and King’s College Medical Schools, 1973-9 PP/JMM/B/4

See also Personal Papers, John Coakley Lettsom and General: Personal Papers: Ronald Hare
Samaritan Hospital – see Personal Papers: W Sampson Handley
Savoy Hospital: grant of annual sum by Master and Chaplains to Robert Allott for medical advice, 1608 MS.6232 Lease of Master's Lodgings, 1685 MS.6006
Scottish Hospital: financial and administrative papers, 1799-1843 MS.6825
Surrey Dispensatory: letter by Philip Henry Stanhope FRS, 4th Earl Stanhope (1781-1855), mentioning work with new materia medica of Dr Whiting at the Surrey Dispensatory, 1828 MS.7825/23
Surrey Institution: letter from Johann Kaspar Spurzheim arranging a course of lectures on phrenology, 1815 MS.7636/1
Swedish Institution for the Cure of Diseases by Manual Treatment: prescriptions by Jonas Henrik Kellgren, 1875 MS.5408
Tavistock Clinic/Institute of Human Relations: papers relating to John Bowlby’s connection with, 1947-72 PP/BOW; Doris Odlum, chapter in ‘The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968’ MS.7913/39
Travelling Surgical Society: visits to London (general), 1972, 1987, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1975, Guy’s Hospital, 1980, Middlesex Hospital, 1983 SA/TSS
University College Hospital: National Birthday Trust Fund correspondence about donations to, 1929–36, and research projects undertaken at hospital, 1930s–60s SA/NBT
Victoria Institute, Strand: letter by J Petrie about the affairs of the Institute, 1871 MS.7358/57
Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research: located at various central London addresses: Henrietta St, Covent Garden, 1913–20, and subsequently in vicinity of Euston Road: records, 1913–39 WA/BSR
Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratory: before being brought under WBSR, located at Snow Hill, EC1: records 1899–c. 1946 WA/CRL
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: initially in Wigmore St, W1, then at 183 Euston Road except for a short period, 1947–54, in Portman Sq; records, 1874–c. 1984 WA/HMM
Wellcome Museum of Medical Science: established as Museum of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1914, in Henrietta St, Covent Garden, subsequently moving to Vere St, W1, and then to the Euston Road area; records 1923–83 WA/MMS
Western Dispensary: invitation to dine with the dispensary's governing body, addressed to Viscount Melville as a vice-president, 1811 MS.7903/7
Westminster Dispensary: notes of lectures by John Epps, homeopathic physician, 1835 MS.6007
Westminster Hospital: Radiotherapy Interview: Colleagues of Sir Stanford Cade, interviewed in 1993 GC/171; Sir John McMichael’s files on proposed amalgamation with Westminster and King’s College Medical Schools, 1973-9 PP/JMM/B/4
Unnamed London Hospital: Physician’s Register 1901 GC/115
See also General: Personal Papers: Harold Burnett Hewitt

Charing Cross Hospital, Finsbury Dispensary, Guy's Hospital, King's College Hospital, Middlesex Hospital, Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, St Bartholomew's Hospital, St George's Hospital Medical School, University College Hospital, Westminster Hospital: certificates, lecture notes, testimonials etc For details see indices to manuscript catalogues

General Practitioners

Hodgkin family: papers of Thomas Hodgkin, who practised in Central London, include case notes See General section
Thomas Jeeves Horder, Lord Horder of Ashford (1871–1955): personalia, appointment diaries, speeches and writings, 1904–55 GP/31
Edward Jenner (1749-1823), physician: notebook recording patients whilst resident at Hertford St, Mayfair, 1803 MS.3021
Peter Mere Latham: casebooks, patients including Michael Faraday and Archbishop William Howley, 1839-44 MSS.3176-7
Dr. William Collins Luffman (fl. 1909), Blackfriars Road: record of fees received, 1909-34 MS.3345
(George) Eric Campbell Pritchard (1864–1943): Unpublished autobiography ‘Harley Street Calling: some reminiscences of a medical man’ GC/49
Buxton Shillitoe: visiting lists, notes on patients, fees received and accounts, 1851-1883 MSS.4528-4563
Sir Thomas Watson, Cavendish Square: notes on cases, 1853-6 MS.4978
Various reports by London doctors concerning applicants for life assurance, 1819-1836 MS.5658

Business Records, including commercial utilities

William Allen (1770-1843), pharmacist, Plough Court: letter to Allen's pharmacy from the Brighton pharmacist John Glaisyer, placing an order, 1809 MS.7825/7 Other correspondence to or from Allen, not relating to London issues, is found at MSS7397, 7400/73 and 7780/1
James Arnold, surgical instrument manufacturer: miscellaneous papers including lease of premises at West Smithfield, 1837-77 MS.5272
Claudius Ash & Sons, manufacturers of mineral teeth: bill and note to customer, 1843 MS.7290/2
William Bacon, chemist, Oxford Street: price list, to be found inside the letterbook of Gilbert Laurie & Co, druggists, Edinburgh c.1785 MS.3181
Bartlett & Goodall, dispensing chemists, Crawford St, Bryanston Square: prescription books, 1937-61 MSS.1080-4

Biochemical Society: papers relating to purchase and refurbishment of their premises in Portland Place,W1, 1987-90; also property book for premises at 7 Warwick Court WC1 SA/BIO/C.21
British Society of Immunology: files relating to their leased premises at 11 Hobart Place SW1, 1984–90 SA/BSI/E.1
William Buchanan, apothecary: indenture taking George Buchanan as apprentice, 1815 MS.5146
T. Burden & Co., dispensing chemists, Store Street: prescription books, 1863-1911 MSS.6217-9
Samuel Byles, surgeon, apothecary and man-midwife, Spitalfields: indenture taking TN Brushfield as apprentice, 1843 MS.5146
Robert Carter, Haymarket: account for medicines purchased, 1733-53 MS.5268
Central Fund for the Industrial Welfare of Tuberculous Persons: ran factory for the manufacture of fancy leather goods in Holborn for the commercial employment of tuberculous ex-servicemen; minutes, 1935–53 SA/NPT/E
Thomas Acraman Coate, dispensing chemist, The Strand: recipe book, 1863 MS.6954
Corbyn & Co., chemists: records, 1726-1910 MSS.5435-60
John Roalfe Cox, vet, Mayfair & Streatham: bill, 1869 MS.7562/35
Thomas Day, Son & Hewitt, wholesale chemists based in Paddington and Wantage, Berks: bills, 1868-1926 MS.7564/7, 11, 14, 18 & 23
The Dog Sanatorium Ltd., City: bill, 1911 MS.7562/99
P. & J. Dollond, opticians: account for instruments purchased, 1761-81 MS.5268
John Fairbank and Marcus Davis, dentists: ledger, including royalty and other eminent patients, 1883 MS.5464
George Fincham, apothecary, Spring Gardens: indenture taking Horatio Goodday as apprentice, 1822 MS.7277/1
General Apothecaries Co. Ltd.: records, 1855-1951 MSS.5492-5506
Group Analytic Society: files relating to Society premises, including lease of Bickenhall Mansions W1, 1980–2 SA/GAS/C.4/3
Joseph and Thomas Keens, chemists, Holborn: account for medicines supplied to James Leigh Esq, 1762 MS.7526/3
Ironmongers: photocopied account book of Staffordshire midwife includes list of London ironmongers, 1806 MS.8965
B.W. Lara & Co., agents for the sale of medical practices and partnerships: letterbook, 1881 MS.3170
Hugh Marchant, waterworks proprietor: petitions to the Commissioners of Sewers for Westminster, 1694-5 MS.5659
Benjamin Martin, optician: account for instruments purchased, 1761-81 MS.5268
William Martindale, pharmaceutical chemist, New Cavendish Street: prescription books, 1885-90 MSS.5984-5
Martindale and Co, W1, dispensing chemists: prescription registers, 1936–70 GC/26
W. Mavor & Son, vets, New Bond St: bill, 1846 MS.7562/12 Articles of agreement binding George South as an apprentice to William Mavor, 1833 MS.7569/1
Alexander Moon, vet, Grosvenor Square: certificate of having carried out a veterinary examination upon a horse, 1876 MS.7565/2
Thomas Morson & Son Ltd., pharmaceutical manufacturers, based in Bloomsbury before relocation to North London in late nineteenth century: business records, papers relating to the Morson family and photographs, 1818-1970 SA/MOR
Francis Newbery, chemist, St Paul's Churchyard: price list, to be found inside the letterbook of Gilbert Laurie & Co, druggists, Edinburgh c.1785 MS.3181
W. Parsons, vet, S Kensington: bill, 1887 MS.7563/24

Patients’ Association: files relating to their premises in Dartmouth St, SW1, and Charing Cross Road, WC1, 1978–85 SA/PAT/B/2/1
Potter & Hailey, herbalists, Farringdon Market: list of articles sold, early C. 19th MS.7226/2
Reynolds Gout Specific Co., London: recipe and legal documents, 1868-94 MS.5987
Mr. Ringsted, coachmaker, Long Acre: letter from Dr George Talbot concerning delivery of a coach, 1776 MS.7674/8
Savory & Moore, chemists: letters relating to the supply of surgical lint for the war in the Crimea, 1854-5 MS.7874
Savory and Moore, dispensing chemists, Belgravia: prescription registers, 1912–44 GC/16
William A. South, vet, Westminster: bill, 1908 MS.7562/96
Peter Squire (later Squire & Co), chemists, Oxford Street: trade and personal account books, 1832-85, with gaps MSS.4687-90, 4692
Peter Taylor, chemist, Marylebone: prescription books, 1914-37 MSS.4760-1
Un-named chemist, probably based in Islington: prescription books, 1845-88 MSS.3975-93
Un-named chemist, probably based in the West End: prescription book, 1847-8 MS.7692
James Webster, Leadenhall St: account for medicines purchased, 1753-73 MS.5268
Wellcome Foundation: Head Office site of pharmaceutical company was at Snow Hill, EC1, c. 1879 until it was bombed in World War II and moved into premises of Wellcome Research Institution, (f. 1932), later The Wellcome Building, at 183 Euston Road; moved to Unicorn House, 1990; records of firm’s operations, 1870s-1990s, includes much on other institutions founded by Sir Henry Wellcome WF
Whiffen & Sons Ltd., pharmaceutical manufacturers, and predecessor companies (Primatt & Maud; Biggar, Atkinson & Dell; George Atkinson & Co): records, 1749-1971 MSS.5878-94
George Williams, vet, Pimlico: bill, 1891 MS.7562/59
Sir Robert Wigram M.P. shipowner, merchant and former East India Company surgeon (1744-1830): paper arguing for lower duties on medicinal plants imported from the East to Great Britain, ascribed by an endorsement to "Mr Wigram, merchant" writing to "Mr Richardson, East India House" n.d. (probably early 19th century; before Wigram was knighted in 1815) MS.7226/1 Wigram is also mentioned in the anonymous merchant's account book held as MS.832
Miscellaneous accounts for medicines and treatment, 1699-1825 MS.5269

Local Government

Corporation of London: summons from the Lord Mayor, signed by various Corporation functionaries, concerning claim by John Gidley and William Oades, surgeons, to be exempt from inquest service by virtue of being freemen of the Barber-Surgeons' Company, 1692 MS.7382/1 Grants of freedom of City of London to John Lister, 1760 MS.6961/2; Edward Jenner, 1803 MS.5231; William John Charles Richards, chemist, Blackfriars, 1857 MS.6955 Certificate of William Comins' attending and treating prisoners in the Poultry Compter, 1793 MS.7335/1
Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority: minutes and papers relating to setting up of Staff Occupational Health Department GC/135/7

Livery Companies

Barber-Surgeons' Company: receipt from sale of land in East Smithfield, 1717 MS.5181 Copy of original 1435 charter, 1858 MS.1054 Miscellaneous documents, some original and some copies, collected by Sir D'Arcy Power, 1635-1914 MSS.627-8
Leathersellers' Company: record of expenditure, 1607-1608 MS.5306

Legal Papers

Alwich Close, St Giles in the Fields: copies of deeds relating to acquisition (1634) and sale (1635) by Sir Kenelm Digby c. 1675 MS.2124
Blackfriars: deeds relating to properties including tenement in Ireland Yard owned by family of William Shakespeare, 1633-68 MS.5957
Lincoln's Inn: admission bond of Charles Beke and correspondence on outstanding dues, 1824-36 MS.6833
St. Botolph-without-Aldersgate: assignment of rectory, tithes, rents etc by Thomas Moundeforde, President of the College of Physicians of London, 1619 MS.6040

Education

Billingsgate Ward Schools: account book (blank leaves later used as a notebook by an entomologist), 1853-1858 (later notes 1886-1914) MS.2296
King’s College: materials relating to Stanley Browne’s medical education and training to be a missionary, involvement with student activities, etc, 1920s-30s WTI/SGB/A; lecture by V F Hall on history of Medical School 1923-48 GC/203/3

Sir John McMichael: files on proposed amalgamation of King’s College, Westminster and St Thomas’s Medical Schools, 1973-9 PP/JMM/B/4
Medical Women’s Federation: material relating to establishment and early years of London Medical School for Women, later Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, 1870s-1970s; Protests against the closure of medical schools, particularly St Mary’s, to women students, 1924-6 SA/MWF
Charles McMoran Wilson, Lord Moran (1882-1977): records relating to his period as Dean of St Mary’s Medical School, 1920-45, with some earlier material PP/CMW/A
Royal College of Surgeons of England: letters from Henry Vandyke Carter while student of anatomy here, 1853-1858 MS.5810
Royal Polytechnic Institution: see Personal Papers, Edmund H Wilkie
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: papers of Sir Patrick Manson (1844–1922): Files about the London School of Tropical Medicine, c.1900-50 WTI/RST/F
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935): papers relating to his period as Jodrell Professor of Physiology, University College London, with some earlier material, 1868-1932 PP/ESS/J
See also General: Personal Papers: Harold Burnett Hewitt

Personal Papers

Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake: case books including cases at St John's Hospital, 1890-1 MS.908
Anonymous collection of recipes, including method for preserving leeches devised by John Scott of Oxford Street c. 1800 MS.5854
Anonymous commonplace book, including statistics for traffic over London Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge for one day in July 1811, 1811-1830 MS.6111
Anonymous travel journal compiled by the ship's surgeon of the William Miles, an East India Company vessel, including account of shooting old London Bridge on the way to join his ship, and some descriptions of life in London after the ship's return from India (visit to theatre, gossip about the royal family, etc), 1819-1821 MS.7114
Elizabeth Batten SRN (1884–1984): Items re nursing career at Royal Free Hospital, c. 1907-27 GC/80
Thomas Frederick Isaacson Blaker: casebook including cases treated at Guy's Hospital and midwifery cases recorded as an extern for an unnamed London charity, 1873-1874 MS.6293
George Budd, Professor of Medicine, King's College, London: family papers c. 1831-1894 and n.d. MS.5153
William? Cooper: diary whilst Student Assistant Physician or Surgeon at Westminster Hospital, 1786 MS.1856
P M Clewett: ‘Reminiscences of the Hospital at the Corner’ [St George’s Hyde Park], as a probationer nurse, 1939–45 GC/41
Hawley Harvey Crippen, murderer: letter promoting products of the Aural Remedies Co, written between Crippen's murder of his wife and his fleeing the country, 1910 MS.8332
Thomas Dutton (fl. 1790), London sugar cooper: letter to a family friend, giving details of the will of Nicholas Nixon (d1790), a merchant of Mincing Lane, London, whose beneficiaries include Bethlem, St Luke's, Christ's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals, the Asylum for Female Orphans at St George's Fields, and the Tower Ward Charity School, 1790 MS.7544/1
Rhoda Fairfax [née Hussey] (d1686) of London: recipe book, C. 17th MS.160
Michael Faraday (1791-1867), chemist and physicist: correspondence etc Including photograph of house where Faraday lived when an apprentice, 1818-65 and n.d. MS.7844
Ambrose Godfrey, chemist and assistant to Robert Boyle, Covent Garden: book of chemical notes, early C. 18th MS.2533
Fréderic Guyaz, Swiss valet: pocket book including recipes, and notes by Guyaz's executor, Moses Huguenin, a Haymarket perfumer, 1756-1819 MS.2657
Dr. William Aurelius Harland (1822-1858): letters written while studying in London, including decription of the Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street, 1842 MS.7682/5-8 Letter to his sister describing a visit to London and in particular to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, 1857 MS.7682/67
Charles Hunter: lecture certificate, Westminster Hospital, and notice of election as Governor of St George's Hospital, 1863 MS.6892
Thomas Keating, chemist and druggist, St Paul's Churchyard: family papers consisting of probate of will and assignment of cough lozenge recipe, 1855-77 MS.5895
John Christopher Knight: papers concerning his medical education in London, 1795-1817 MS.5945
Robert Lee F.R.C.P. F.R.S. (1793-1877): diary and autobiographical fragments covering residence in London, 1838-73 MSS.3218-9
Robert James Lee F.R.C.P. (1841-1924): diaries and autobiographical fragments covering residence in London, latterly as Physician to Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, 1857-1922 MSS.3221-6
John Coakley Lettsom: fragment of autobiography including life as medical student at St Thomas's Hospital, 1766-7 MS.3245 Medical memoirs of the General Dispensary c. 1800 MS.3249
Peter Karl Lewin b. 1935: memoir, 'A Chameleon of Sorts: Autobiographical Vignettes', includes accounts of his life in London as a medical student at St Mary’s and post-qualification MS.8369.
Dr. Thomas Lewis (d1746), Hatton Garden: commonplace book, late C. 17th - early C. 18th MS/MSL/36
Robert Liston: family papers including material relating to work as surgeon at University College Hospital, 1832-1901 MSS.6084-6104
George Marsh, Director of Greenwich Hospital: scrapbook kept by Marsh, with newspaper cuttings including an account of a balloon ascent from St George's Fields (p81) and letters on the Gordon Riots (pp23 and 47) c. 1769-c. 1798 MS.7628 Loose newspaper cuttings including an announcement of a concert at Hanover Square in 1791 at which Haydn will play the harpsichord, 1791 MS.7629/11
John Moore, London merchant, later Lord Mayor: letter describing spread of plague in London, 1665 MS.7382/3
Sir Norman Moore: Rede Lecture, "St Bartholomew's Hospital in peace and war" 1914-5 MS.3625
John Moulton, Vicar of St Bartholomew the Less: commonplace book including accounts of personal finances c.1620 MS.571
Florence Nightingale: letters to Louisa Gordon, Matron of St Thomas's Hospital, 1890-1902 MS.5476
William Oldham, hatter, Bridge Street, Southwark: manuscript commonplace book, containing moral and mystical speculations and reportage, as well as business accounts, 1828-c. 1839 (plus insert from 1903) MS.7299
Giles Oldsworth, apothecary, St Giles in the Fields: probate copy of will and act of probate, 1709 MS.5982
Henry Owen, physician and divine: receipt of fee for preaching Fairchild's Vegetable Lecture at St Leonard, Shoreditch, 1767 MS.7368/7
John Percy, metallurgist: letter describing the boilers of the Houses of Parliament, 1865 MS.7400/80
Physician, London: supposed copy account of plague epidemic by an anonymous physician, possibly the Great Plague of 1665 Possibly a forgery c.1920 MS.1719/2
David Boswell Reid, inventor and chemist: letter concerning the ventilation of the Houses of Parliament (Reid's principles regarding ventilation were used in the construction of the Parliament buildings), 1839 MS.7471/1
Richard Relhan, botanist and classicist: letter to Messrs Lackington and Allen at the Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, seeking to purchase an elephant's tusk, 1807 MS.7471/8
Albert Richard Smith M.R.C.S. (1816-1860), author, lecturer and traveller: correspondence includes note with the letterhead "Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc", the long-running entertainment that Smith presented at the Egyptian Hall, 1852 MS.7655/51

David Stafford–Clark: notes and drafts for unpublished work ‘The Myth of Harley Street’, 1970s PP/DSC/B.3/5
Dr. Septimus Sunderland: letter concerning a correction to his Old London's spas, baths, and wells (1915), about the water supply to the old St Thomas's Hospital, 1924 MS.7337/104
William Dancer Thane MRCS: papers including indenture as apothecary's apprentice, certificates and admission tickets from Charing Cross Hospital and autobiography, 1857-1870 MSS.5199-5200
John Turton, Royal physician, Adelphi: probate of will, 1806 MS.5156
David Urquhart, diplomat: correspondence, notes and cuttings, including details of Jermyn Street Turkish Bath, which Urquhart helped establish, and similar institutions (eg financial account of the Bath in Golden Square, 1860-1), 1821-92 MSS.6236-7
T Vere Nicoll (1856–c. 1922): Diaries of London doctor, 1902–19 GC/133
Edmund H. Wilkie, lantern-slide lecturer: papers chiefly relating to history of lantern-slide lectures at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, 1879-96 MS.5699

Miscellaneous

Archibald Cameron, Jacobite physician: papers concerning his imprisonment in the Tower of London, 1755 MS.6893
H. Carter, Southwark doctor: letters between central government and local physicians concerning cholera, including Carter, 1832 MS.6793

Sarah Tully, Lady Hoare [and others]: "Book of Receipts for Cookery and Pastry & c", including medical, veterinary and household recipes, 1732—[?]: Sarah Tully was married to Sir Richard Hoare, banker and later Lord Mayor of London MS.8687

London Zoo: list of animal livers sent to Sir James Cantlie for analysis, 1897-1902 MS.1723/5
"The Mock Doctor's Speech to the Credulous Mob in Covent Garden": anonymous satire, 18th century MS.5326
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer: admission ticket to Stanley's wedding in Westminster Abbey, 1890 MS.7635/30
Thomas Williams, John Bishop and James May, murderers: miscellaneous papers relating to murder of persons in Smithfield area and sale of corpses for dissection, 1831 MS.7058
Westminster Abbey: undated note listing physicians buried or commemorated in Westminster Abbey, by the Dean (apparently Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean 1864-1881) MS.7225

West London

Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames

Sub-headings: Hospitals, Societies and Institutions; Business Records; Societies and Associations; Legal Papers; Local Government; General Practice; Personal Papers

Hospitals and Institutions

Asylum run by William and Charles Finch, Kensington: transcripts from case of Richard Paternoster, claiming wrongful detention, 1840 MSS.5274-5
Brompton Hospital: invitation to dinner at opening, 1847 MS.7280/3; case notes by Theodore Dyke Acland including cases at Brompton Hospital, 1893-1914 MS.845; photograph of inspection of tonal physical class for children, c. 1937 SA/CSP/Q.1; Sir Robert Macintosh, diaries of visits to anaesthetics department, Sep 1938 PP/RRM/C.8
Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders: T F Main, chapter in ‘The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968’ MS.7913/41
Centre for Spastic Children, Chelsea: photographs of children doing exercises, 1955, 1965 SA/CSP/Q.1
Chelsea Day Nursery: see Chelsea Health Society
Chelsea Health Society and School for Mothers (1916–72) Miscellaneous historical material, and annual reports SA/HVA/F.1
Chelsea Hospital: document authorising payments by the Hospital, signatures including Sir Christopher Wren, 1698 MS.7903/1 Miscellaneous papers, 1722-1849 MS.5314
Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; includes archives of the North Kensington Women’s Welfare Clinic, 1924–68, and records of Hounslow (later West London) branch, 1952–72 SA/FPA
Hammersmith Hospital: Papers of Constance Wood as Director of Radium Beam Therapy Research and head of Radiotherapy Department, 1941–62, including the development of the medical cyclotron GC/95; Journals, reports, correspondence etc of John Gallop relating to the building of the medical cyclotron, 1949–56 GC/160; Papers of Sir Allen Daley while on the Board of Governors’ Finance Committee, 1957–64 PP/AWD; Brenda Morrison’s ‘Reminiscences of a woman doctor’ includes work at Hammersmith Hospital from 1949 GC/240; research in obstetric analgesia under auspices of National Birthday Trust Fund, 1952–7 SA/NBT; Sir John McMichael’s file relating to his association with, 1955 PP/JMM/E/1; Mary Catterall’s papers relating to her work as Consultant Radiologist, in charge of the Fast Neutron Clinic, 1970–87 PP/CAT
Hanwell Residential Schools (formerly Poor Law Schools of the Southwark Union): miscellaneous material among the papers of Helen Alice Dorothy Barlow (1887-1975), 1904-51 PP/BAR/Z/22-25 See also Southwark Boys' Aid Association under South London
Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton: invitation to dinner at opening of new hospital, 1847 MS.7280/3
Institute of Child Psychology (set up in Notting Hill in the 1920s): Margaret Lowenfeld’s chapter in ‘The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968’ MS.7913/12
Jews' Orphan Asylum: diary of Albert Kisch, Medical Officer, 1872-7 MS.3116
Lister Institute (formerly the British/Jenner Institute for Preventive Medicine) (f. 1891): Headquarters on the Chelsea Embankment: records 1890s–1970s: material on local protests against in 1890s, and relations with local hospitals and University of London; photographs SA/LIS
Manor House Asylum, Chiswick (later Chiswick House Asylum): casebook and letters, 1870-1925 and n.d. MSS.5725-6 & 6222-7
Mental Aftercare Association: material (including photographs) on residential home for former mental patients in Chiswick, 1950s–80s SA/MAC
Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital: Sir Robert Macintosh’s diaries of visits to anaesthetics department, Sep 1938 PP/RRM/C.8
Midwife-Teachers’ Training College, High Coombe, Kingston: correspondence re grant from National Birthday Trust Fund, 1950 SA/NBT/J.6
Mothercraft Training Home: see Chelsea Health Society
Paddington General Hospital: photographs of physiotherapy at, c. 1965 SA/CSP/Q.1
Queen Charlotte’s Hospital: Leonard Colebrook’s diary and research notebooks, 1935-41 PP/COL; National Birthday Trust Fund research projects, 1930s–60s, also files on Human Milk Bureau, 1938–53 SA/NBT See also General: Personal Papers: Ronald Hare
Research Defence Society: materials relating to Kensington Branch, c. 1908–19 SA/RDS/C.16, D.1
Royal Hospital: photograph of gymnasium, c. 1960 SA/CSP/Q.1
Royal (formerly British) Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith: some material among papers of George Gray Turner, Professor of Surgery, 1935-51 PP/GGT; 2 files of miscellaneous material, 1948-80, among the papers of Sir John McMichael PP/JMM/B/3; material on analgesia research and midwife training under the auspices of National Birthday Trust Fund, 1949–51 SA/NBT; visit by Travelling Surgical Society, 1977 SA/TSS
St Columba’s Hospice: BACUP correspondence with, 1985 SA/BAC/E.2/26
St Stephen’s Hospital: photographs of physiotherapy, 1980 SA/CSP/Q.1
Star and Garter Home for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors, Richmond: originated by the British Women’s Hospital Committee: reports, minutes, cuttings etc, 1915–20 SA/NFN/A
Violet Melchett Infant Welfare Centre: see Chelsea Health Society
West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases: E A Bennet, chapter in ‘The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968’ MS.7913/40; Minutes of Medical Committee, 1948 PP/WWS/B.3/2
Western Fever Hospital: see General section, Personal Papers: Lyon Falkener

Business Records

Fennings Pharmaceuticals: originated as Alfred Fenning’s Golden Key Pharmacy, Hammersmith, 1840-50, before moving to the Isle of Wight; subsequently some manufacturing and packing operations were undertaken by Sanger and Sons of Shepherd’s Bush SA/FEN
Fulham Road Pharmacy, Chelsea: prescription registers, 1887–1989 GC/189
Thomas Grimshaw, chemist and druggist, Wormwood Scrubs prison: recipe book, 1897 MS.7144
Harrods Pharmacy Department: prescription registers, 1935–77 GC/214
Thomas Henry Holberton, apothecary, Hampton Court: account book, 1829-33 MS.2862
The Homovet Company, Bedfont, manufacturers of embrocation for human and animal use: letter (incomplete) from Nat Gould, head of the company, setting out its state, with letterhead giving testimonials and a picture of the product, 1913 MS.7568/4
Thomas Roots, apothecary, Kingston-on-Thames: account books, 1749-56 MSS.4254-5 Post book containing copies of bill sent out for supply of medicines and services such as bleeding, 1750-3 MS.6033
Tyler Dispensing Chemist, W8: prescription registers, 1944–57 GC/102
Unidentified Kensington Pharmacy: prescription registers, 1873–1915 GC/103

Societies and Associations

Abortion Law Reform Association: Ashford (Mdx) local group file, 1964 SA/ALR/A.9/1
BACUP: files on launch of South West Thames Regional Cancer Organisation, 1985–7 SA/BAC/H.23
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: minutes of South West Metropolitan and Wessex Local Board, 1948–71, and of North West Metropolitan/Thames Local Board, 1969–88 SA/CSP/J.4/4-5
Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on Ealing, Hammersmith, Hillingdon, Kensington, Kingston-upon-Thames, London SW, Richmond branches, 1950s-70s SA/MSS/C
National Birthday Trust Fund: report on contraception and abortion in the Royal Borough of Kensington, 1937 SA/NBT/S
No 4 District (Beds, Herts, Leics and Middlesex) Master and Matrons’ Association: Minutes, 1918–36 SA/AHR/A.35

Legal Papers

Brentford, Chancery suit over land: petition to Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, 1640 MS.7072

Local Government

Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority: minutes and papers relating to setting up of Staff Occupational Health Department, 1975-7 GC/135/7
Society of Medical Officers of Health/ Society of Community Health/ Society of Public Health (1856–1997): rheumatism scheme in Royal Borough of Kensington, 1935 SA/SMO/R

General Practice

Oral History of General Practice, 1935-52: tapes and transcripts of interviews with Dennis Bowman, West Drayton and Max Clyne, Southall, 1993-4 GP/29

Personal Papers

Rev. George Charles Black: papers include institution as rector of Cranford, Middlesex, 1750 MS.5226
Joseph Thomas Clover: letters including printed material on the International Exhibition, South Kensington, 1862, 1862-1875 MS.6942
Rev. George Charles Green, son-in-law to Edward Jenner: sermons (some apparently given as a naval chaplain), including posthumous transcriptions, 1745-1796 Account of sale of his belongings at Norwood Green, Middlesex, after his death, 1775 MSS.1180-1215
J R Hutchinson (c. 1880–1955) and W H Bradley (1898–1975), of the Ministry of Health: file on vaccination in Fulham, 1929 PP/JRH
Sir Hans Sloane: letter by Henry Newman describing Sloane's retirement at Chelsea, 1742 MS.7633/10
Mr/Miss Woodward (fl. c. 1680), apparently based in London but of Irish extraction: commonplace book, recording inter alia injuries sustained falling off Teddington Bridge c. 1680 MS.5093
Nancy Zinkin (née Blackburn) (1912-2003): health visitor in Ealing, material mainly relating to health education in the borough, 1950s–70s SA/HVA/G.7

North London

Barnet, Brent, Camden (north of Euston Road), Enfield, Haringey, Islington (north of Pentonville Road and City Road)

Sub-headings: Hospitals and Institutions; General Practitioners; Business Records; Societies and Associations; Personal Papers

Hospitals and Institutions

Bobath Institute: photographs of its work with children, c. 1982 SA/CSP/Q.1
Bowden House, Harrow, for the Treatment of Neuroses and Mild Psychoses: chapter by Doris Odlum in ‘The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968’ MS.7913/42
City of London Maternity Hospital N.4: National Birthday Trust Fund correspondence concerning donations, 1928–48 SA/NBT/F.6/1
East Islington Mother and Babies Welfare Centre: National Birthday Trust Fund files relating to, 1936–40 SA/NBT/F.6/7, T.10/3/4
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital: see Central London: Hospitals and Institutions
Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; records of the following branches: Willesden, 1934–64, Hornsey, 1948–71, Finchley, 1957–72, North London, 1964–6 SA/FPA
Girls' Orphan Home, Lower Tottenham: letter from a Sister at the home to "My dear Mary Anne", apparently an inmate of the home now in hospital Late 19th century MS.7294/1
Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic: chapter by Liselotte Frankl in ‘The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968’ MS.7913/11
Harrow Weald College: letters from Edward Monro (1815-1866) and Henry Monro (1817-1891) to Horatio Nelson, 3rd Earl Nelson (1823-1913), on difficulties at the college and their effect on their father Edward Thomas Monro FRCP (1790-1856), consultant physician to Bethlem Hospital, 1853-5 MS.7337/52-54
Highbury Quadrant Hostel: correspondence and notes about the matronship, in the papers of Sir Thomas Barlow (1845-1945), physician, 1925 PP/BAR/F/3
Holmleigh Auxiliary Military Hospital, Harrow on the Hill: Register of admissions and discharges, 1914-8; Visitors' Register, 1914-8; patients' personal narratives, 1915-7 GC/20
Kilburn Dispensary: case notes taken at the dispensary by George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1923), specialist in mental deficiency, 1863-4 MS.4566
Kingsbury Maternity Hospital: trials of nitrous oxide and oxygen obstetric analgesia, 1960–1 SA/NBT/H.2/8/4
London Temperance Hospital, Hampstead Road: casualty room card attesting to treatment, 1916 MS.7280/5
Marie Curie Hospital: materials relating to, 1930s-50s SA/MWF/C.32-42, 251
Mental Aftercare Association: photographs of residential home for former mental patients in Victoria Rd, N18, c. 1980s SA/MAC/J.3/19
Mothers’ Clinic: established by Marie Stopes in 1921, located in Holloway until 1926 PP/MCS
National Institute for Medical Research: Sir Peter Medawar’s files, 1956-76, including one on Mount Vernon House PP/PBM
Northcourt Hospital for Sick Children, Hampstead: testimonial to William Henry Ash recording his service as a member of the committee of management and as a fund-raiser c.1925 MS.7903/2
Northwick Park Hospital: photographs of physiotherapist and patients exercising in rehabilitation unit, c. 1975 SA/CSP/Q.1
Pioneer Health Centre Ltd: Papers include material on initiatives in Somers Town/King's Cross, 1970s–80s SA/PHC
Royal Northern Hospital: National Birthday Trust Fund correspondence concerning donations, 1932–6 SA/NBT/F.6/1
Society of Medical Officers of Health/ Society of Community Health/ Society of Public Health (1856–1997): brochures of Woodberry Down Health Centre, 1950s SA/SMO
Tavistock Clinic: see Central London: Hospitals and Institutions
Victoria Maternity Hospital, Barnet: trials of nitrous oxide and oxygen obstetric analgesia, 1960–1 SA/NBT/H.2/8/4
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: material relating to Willesden store, 1920s–40s WA/HMM
Woodside Hospital: Noel Gordon Harris’s files on his work at, 1934-40 PP/NGH

General Practitioners

Robert Craik, Islington: day book, 1833 MS.5277
Oral History of General Practice, 1935-52: tapes and transcripts of interviews with Gordon Jenkins, Harrow; Frederick Barber, Islington; Geoffrey Richman, Kilburn; Leonard Franks, Islington, 1992-4 GP/29
Drs. George, Harold and Mary Pereira, Colney Hatch Lane: letter of advice to patient, on diet, regimen and the need to obtain a job "on the Railway" less prone to poor air quality than his present one, 1931 MS.7294/3
‘Re-thinking General Practice’: tapes and transcripts of interviews with doctors in North London group practices in health centre, 1970s, on which 1983 book by Margot Jeffreys and Hessie Sachs was based GP/7
A.W. Scott (fl.1926), dietician and "health scientist", Willesden: 2 typescript letters (1 incomplete) setting out the regimen to be followed by a patient, 1926 MS.7545/80-81

Business Records

J H Percival Bolton, pharmacist, Winchmore Hill, London N21: invoices received Jun-Dec 1917 GC/254
George Daniel, chemist, Islington: prescription book and note book, 1864-83 MSS.2033-4
Fennings Pharmaceuticals: some manufacturing and packing operations undertaken by G F Sutton Sons and Co, King’s Cross, late C. 19th SA/FEN
Group Analytic Society: files relating to Society premises, including purchase of 1 Daleham Gdns NW3, 1980–2 SA/GAS.C.4/3
Thomas Morson & Son Ltd., pharmaceutical manufacturers, based successively in Hornsey, Homerton and Enfield: business records, papers relating to the Morson family and photographs, 1818-1970 SA/MOR
T T Nicholson, dispensing chemist, NW1: prescription registers, 1893–1963 GC/28
William Pritchard, vet, Camden Town: certificates of having carried out veterinary examinations upon various horses, 1876 MS.7565/1, 3 & 4
Joseph Thorley Limited, animal feed merchants: bill, with letterhead showing mills at Kings Cross and Wandsworth, 1918 MS.7564/22
Unnamed chemist, probably based in Islington: prescription books, 1845-88 MSS.3975-93

Societies and Associations

Abortion Law Reform Association: North-West London Group, 1963–5; ; abortion facilities in Edgware and Hendon, 1977-82, and Camden and Islington, 1980

SA/ALR
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy: minutes of North West Metropolitan/Thames Local Board, 1969–88 SA/CSP/J.4/5

Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on Barnet, Camden, Hackney, Haringey Islington, Kingsbury, Hendon and Edgware, Watford, Willesden Branches, 1950s-70s SA/MSS/C
National Birthday Trust Fund: purchase of gas/air machines by Edmonton branch of Married Women’s Association, 1941-8 SA/NBT/F.6/7, F9/2, T.10/3/4
North London Medical and Chirurgical Society: address delivered by John Davy Rolleston on "The Question of Vaccination against Small-pox", 1930 MS.4247
Research Board for the Correlation of Medical Science and Physical Education: File on inquiry into physique during childhood and adolescence undertaken in Tottenham Schools, 1944–5; ‘Watford Investigation’ on findings of National Service Medical Boards, 1950s SA/RBC
Research Defence Society: records of Hampstead and NW London branch, c. 1908–20 SA/RDS/D.1-2

Personal Papers

Sir Christopher Andrewes (1896-1989):diaries and notes relating to nature observations in Highgate, 1909-38 GC/168
Anonymous patient, Colney Hatch Asylum: two booklets ("Home" and "Stories about Pussy") composed, written and ornamented by an inmate, 1908 MS.2997
Herbert Davies Chalke (1897–1979): Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead, 1945–63, papers on various public health issues GC/200
William Job Collins, campaigner against smallpox vaccination: scrapbook kept by Collins, with numerous cuttings relating to a controversy over alleged pollution of the Regent's Canal by London Zoo c. 1863-c. 1878 MS.7626
Thomas Guy, founder of Guy's Hospital: financial records including sale of tenement in Islington, 1691-1725 MS.5989
Hodgkin family: papers generated by interlinked London Quaker families; the Hodgkins resident first in Pentonville and then in Tottenham Letters and autobiographical fragments contain many references to local matters See General section
Jessy Kent Parsons: employed as Health Visitor in Tottenham, 1913–45, papers reflecting her career SA/HVA/G.2
Sayer Walker M.D. (1748-1826), physician and accoucheur, previously dissenting minister at Enfield: letter, plus printed biographical cutting, 1813 MS.7826/20
Lucy Warren, daughter of Vicar of Edmonton: account by parents of her illness and death, 1823 MS.5362
See also General: Personal Papers: Harold Burnett Hewitt

East London

Barking & Dagenham, Hackney (north of Old Street), Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets (east of Brick Lane and Leman Street), Waltham Forest

Sub-headings: Hospitals, Associations, Institutions; Business Records; Local Government; General Practice; Personal Papers

Hospitals, Associations, Institutions

Birth Control Campaign: records of local groups at Havering, Newham, Redbridge, and Waltham Forest, 1972–4 SA/BCC/A
Claybury Asylum: see General section, Personal Papers: Lyon Falkener
East End Maternity Hospital: National Birthday Trust Fund correspondence concerning donations, 1928–39 SA/NBT/F.6/1
Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; records of the following branches: Hackney and Stoke Newington, 1951–68, West Ham. 1952–68, Canning Town, 1958–66 SA/FPA
Great Eastern Dispensary, Stratford: account book, 1887-9 MS.4868
London Port Welfare Advisory Council: minutes of, 1935–41, in British Social Hygiene Council archives SA/BSH/B.5
Medical Pilgrims: 50th Anniversary Meeting at The London and Guy’s, 1978 SA/PIL
Mothers’ Hospital Clapton: File in Medical Women’s Federation archive SA/MWF/C.43
Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on Barking, Havering, Newham, North Havering, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, 1950s-70s SA/MSS/C
Old Church Hospital, Romford: trials of nitrous oxide and oxygen obstetric analgesia, 1960–1, investigation into low spinal analgesia, 1957–9 SA/NBT/H.2/8/4, H.5/6
People’s Cancer Movement [for Greater State Aid], Leytonstone: papers, 1951–3 SA/CRC/H.1/16
Plaistow Maternity Hospital: National Birthday Trust Fund correspondence concerning donations, 1928–36 SA/NBT/F.6/1
Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum, Bromley by Bow: Nurse training notebooks of E J Thomas, c. 1905-10 GC/239
Poplar Hospital: list of marine pensioner inmates formerly serving with the East India Company, 1843-60 MS.2271
Queen Mary’s Hospital for the East End: National Birthday Trust Fund correspondence concerning donations, 1934–6 SA/NBT/F.6/1
Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich: various materials concerning, 1865–c.1970, RAMC
Royal London Hospital: letter asking that leeches be put on the abdomen of a patient, 1897 MS.7294/2; physiotherapy students, c. 1965 SA/CSP/Q.1
Salvation Army Mothers Hospitals: National Birthday Trust Fund correspondence concerning donations, 1928–53 SA/NBT/F.6/1

Business Records

Howard, Jewell & Co., chemists, Stratford, founded by the Quaker chemist and meteorologist Luke Howard FRS (1772-1864): letters sent to the firm from individuals in several parts of England, ordering chemicals; several orders specify the means of carriage to be used, some substances travelling by canal and some by coach or wagon, 1809-43 MSS.7654, 7736 & 7780/11

Local Government

Compulsory Vaccination Act 1853: certificate of vaccination of Annie Wheeler of Shacklewell, Hackney, 1862 MS.7274/7
Poor Law Relief in the East End of London 1908–38: By G D R Butler, Local Public Assistance Officer to the London County Council, 1938 GC/123

General Practice

Oral History of General Practice, 1935-52: tapes and transcripts of interviews with Harry Hyman, Bethnal Green, and James Fife, Romford, 1993–4 GP/29

Personal Papers

Hugh Charles Herbert Candy, consulting analyst to London Hospital: notes and correspondence on poisonings, chiefly concerning a suicide in Barking and including police statement by attending GP, post-mortem report and coroner's letters, 1930-1 MS.6890
Hector Gavin: testimonials advanced as candidate for surgeon to the workhouse, Bethnal Green, 1843 MS.5155
William Gelder, dispensing and visiting assistant to R Lucie Reed, surgeon, Whitechapel Road: letters, 1832 MS.5871
Hodgkin family: papers generated by interlinked London Quaker families including the Howards resident in Plaistow Letters and autobiographical fragments contain many references to local matters See General section
Donald Hunter CBE FRCP (1898–1977): Material on the history of the London Hospital and Whitechapel, 1920s–60s PP/HUN
J R Hutchinson (c. 1880–1955) and W H Bradley (1898–1975), of the Ministry of Health: file on vaccination in Stepney PP/JRH
Lister family, including Joseph Lister (1st Baron Lister): letters and administrative documents including material with reference to London and particularly to Upton, Essex, where the family was long resident Full catalogue available, 1737-1967 MSS.6961-89
Frederick Parkes Weber FRCP (1863–1962): Casebooks (plus other notes and photographs) of patients seen at the German Hospital, Hackney, 1890s–1940s PP/FPW
Norris Purslow, Wapping clothier: astrological diary c. 1690-1737 MS.4021
Hugo Rast (1891–1982): Material relating to the German Hospital, including bomb damage during World War II, 1940s–50s; set of postcards depicting ‘London Under Fire’, 1940s PP/RAS
Walter Pickett Turner M.D. (d1934), Leytonstone: notes for lectures, including on Epping Forest and Leytonstone c. 1905 MSS.4882 & 4884
Edgar Ashworth Underwood (1899-1980): MOH Shoreditch, 1930s, papers also include material on public health, mainly schools, in West Ham, 1931-9 PP/EAU/B
Albert Wilson, medical superintendent of Essex County Asylum, Walthamstow: miscellaneous papers, 1874-1912 and n.d. MSS.5011-26 & 5356-61

South London

Bromley, Bexley, Croydon, Greenwich, Lambeth (south of Lambeth Road), Lewisham, Merton, Southwark (south and east of a line through Elephant & Castle, Bricklayer's Arms and Tower Bridge), Sutton, Wandsworth Also includes one entry from Caterham

Sub-headings: Hospitals, Institutions; General Practitioners; Business Records; Central Government; Local Government; Societies and Associations; Education; Personal Papers

Hospitals, Institutions

Belgrave Hospital for Children, Clapham Road: letter from a royal functionary, explaining that Queen Adelaide is unable to become a patron of the Royal Belgrave Lying-In Hospital, 1833 MS.7326/2 Letter thanking Clinton Thomas Dent for service as Surgeon, 1904 MS.7288/2
British Hospital for Mothers and Babies: correspondence with National Birthday Trust Fund about donations, 1928–50 SA/NBT/F.6/1
Bermondsey Medical Mission: file in Medical Women’s Federation archive SA/MWF/C.29
Brown [Animal Sanatory] Institution, Wandsworth: some material in the papers of FW Twort, Superintendent 1909-44 GC/176; research materials, 1972-86, n.d., for Sir Graham Wilson’s article about it, Journal of Hygiene, 1979 PP/GSW/D.99-105
Camberwell House Asylum: casebooks, 1847-c. 1887 MSS.6220-1 Letter to Dr Frederick Palmer from Edward Paley of the Asylum, 1849 MS.7364/60 Letter by FM Deighton describing asylum, 1950 ALS: Deighton
Camberwell Workhouse: anonymous notebook containing, inter alia, details of midwifery cases at Camberwell Workhouse, 1854 MS.6027
Charlton House: letter from Sir FW Dyson, Astronomer Royal, concerning closure of the hospital at Charlton House, presumably a temporary war establishment, 1919 MS.7285/2
Clapham Maternity Hospital: file in Medical Women’s Federation archive SA/MWF/C.30; correspondence with National Birthday Trust Fund about donations, 1931–7 SA/NBT/F.6/1
Edith Cavell Home of Rest for Nurses, The Hollies, West Norwood: records of the Edith Cavell Homes, 1917–84 SA/NFN/C
Family Planning Association (formerly National Birth Control Association): records of its dealings with its own regional federations, area organisation, local branches and clinics, correspondence with local authorities, 1930–74; records of its regional administration, 1965–1991; includes archives of the Walworth Women’s Welfare Centre, 1922–59, and records of the following branches: Sutton and Cheam, 1954–69, Beckenham and Penge, 1966–9 SA/FPA
Greenwich Hospital: letter from an Admiralty official mentioning the hospital, 1837 MS.7326/3 Scrapbook kept by George Marsh, Director of Greenwich Hospital, including statement of the revenue and expense of Greenwich Hospital in 1769 (p17) c. 1769-c. 1798 MS.7628; good conduct certificates, 1817 MS.5315
Institute of Psychiatry – see Maudsley Hospital, below
King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill: photographs of gymnasium with patients and staff, c. 1900; exterior of Normanby College nurse training school, 1975 SA/CSP/Q.1
Lambeth Infirmary: papers of Norah Blanche Woodman, nurse, contain account of her training there, 1906–11, and additional material on this institution, of which she eventually became Matron, 1919–45 GC/56
Magdalen Hospital, Streatham: testimonials advanced in favour of Thomas Sunderland Harrison as Physician, 1843 MS.6887
Maudsley Hospital: papers of C P Blacker relating to his work at, 1920s-60s PP/CPB; Doris Odlum, chapter on 'The Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Joint Hospitals and Institute of Psychiatry' in ‘The Expanding Field of Mental Health in England and Wales, 50 years of progress, 1918-1968’ MS.7913/37; papers of Henry McIlwaine relating to his years at the Institute of Psychiatry, 1948-80 PP/MCI; files of William Walters Sargant relating to Medical Committee, 1948-9 PP/WWS/B.1; papers of S H Foulkes as Consultant Physician, 1950–65 PP/SHF/C.5, D.3
Mental Aftercare Association: material (including some photographs) on residential homes and hostels for former mental patients in Croydon and Sutton, 1950s–80s SA/MAC
Metropolitan District Asylum, Caterham: diaries of James Adam, Medical Superintendent, 1872-9 MSS.5510-6
Pioneer Health Centre Peckham: Papers relating to this experimental local community Health Centre based in Peckham, South London, 1926–50, and later initiatives in Bermondsey, 1970s–80s SA/PHC; see also Cancer Research Campaign SA/CRC/R.1/3, Eugenics Society SA/EUG/D.158–9[PLEASE NOTE: this collection is being digitised and parts of it will be unavailable during the process. Check the schedule for further information.], Family Planning Association SA/FPA/SR14/30A-B, 31, Medical Women's Federation SA/MWF/N.14/5, Society of Medical Officers of Health SA/SMO/R.3, and papers of Robina Addis PP/ADD/F/3/1 and C P Blacker, PP/CPB/B.12

The Priory, Roehampton: logbook of male and female patients admitted to this private mental hospital, 1905–09 MS.8455

Putney Hospital: materials relating to Campaign Against Closure 1979-2004 MS.8173
Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton: photographs of physiotherapists working with amputees, 1972 SA/CSP/Q.1
Royal Belgrave Lying-In Hospital: see Belgrave Hospital for Children
Royal Herbert Hospital Woolwich: Souvenirs and some reports during First World War, also report of epidemic at Woolwich 1901
St Christopher’s Hospice: file in Medical Women’s Association archive SA/MWF/C.49; BACUP correspondence with, 1985 SA/BAC/E.2/25
Saint Francis Hospital, Dulwich: photographs of physiotherapy and remedial gymnastics, c.1940 SA/CSP/Q.1
Seamen’s Hospital: Sir Patrick Manson’s files and scrapbook, 1890s-1930 WTI/RST/F; See also Personal Papers: Robert Ranyard West
Sisters of Mercy Convent, Bermondsey: copies of material on Florence Nightingale's relations with the convent, 1856-1965 MS.9103
South London Hospital for Women and Children: file in Medical Women’s Federation archive SA/MWF/C.50-1
Walworth Women’s Centre: file relating to, 1938–9 [permission from Galton Institute required] SA/EUG/D.38 [PLEASE NOTE: this collection is being digitised and parts of it will be unavailable during the process. Check the schedule for further information.]; see also Family Planning Association, above
Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories: Brockwell Hall, Herne Hill, South London, 1899–1924 WA/PRL
Wimbledon Cheshire Homes: files of R K Freudenberg concerning, 1976-9 PP/RKF/D.1

General Practitioners

Reginald Douglas Howatt (1892–1964) Herne Hill, cash book of fees, 1929–46 GP/3
Lakeside Health Centre SE2 : slides of Centre interior, 1970s GP/11
Oral History of General Practice, 1935-52: tapes and transcripts of interviews with Alec Bookless, Croydon; Shirin Kutar, Bexleyheath; David Kerr, Tooting GP/29
Ernest George Pringle (1878–c. 1974): Sydenham/Anerley, misc papers 1900–13 GP/34
Patrick Quinn (fl.1918-1933), New Cross: Cash books, ledgers and day books, 1918-33 GP/30

Business Records

Armitage Dispensing Chemist, Blackheath: prescription registers, 1899–1943 GC/100
British Society of Immunology: file relating to proposed purchase of Parkwest House, Furmage St, SW18, 1988–9 SA/BSI/E.2
Central Fund for the Industrial Welfare of Tuberculous Persons: ran Spero Firewood Factory at Rotherhithe for the commercial employment of tuberculous ex-servicemen; minutes, 1935–53 SA/NPT/E
John Roalfe Cox, vet, Mayfair & Streatham: bill, 1869 MS.7562/35
HP Horsenail Company, Wandsworth Road: bill, 1879 MS.7563/16
Thomas Brigstocke Humphreys (fl. 1859), chemist, originally from North Wales but apparently based later in Blackheath: recipe and account book, used to accommodate newspaper cuttings and ephemera, 1859-1907 and n.d. MSS.7702-3
Imperial Pharmacy, Croydon: prescription registers, 1907–42 GC/101
John Rennie F.R.S. (1761-1821), civil engineer: letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons, concerning a dam and weir at Kidbrook, 1802 MS.7478/1
Spratt's Patent Limited, animal feed merchants: bills, with letterhead showing their Bermondsey factory and detailed product descriptions on rear, 1887-1892 MS.7564/12 & 15
Joseph Thorley Limited, animal feed merchants: bill, with letterhead showing mills at Kings Cross and Wandsworth, 1918 MS.7564/22
Wellcome Foundation: site of its first factory was at Bell Lane Wharf, Wandsworth: records 1880s–1980s WF

Central Government

HM Victualling Yard, Deptford: lists, receipts and issues of stores compiled by James Marr Brydone, surgeon to the Yard, 1833-4 MS.6960

Local Government

Camberwell Board of Health: minutes of parochial committee set up to prepare measures against cholera, 1831-2 MS.7104
London Borough of Sutton: R K Freudenberg’s review of Health and Welfare Services, 1965 PP/RKF/D.12
Emily Virginia Saunders–Jacobs (1900–92): Small group of papers as Medical Officer of Health in South London, 1920s–60s GC/158
South West Metropolitan Psychiatric Advisory Board: minutes of Working Party and Subcommittee on Neurosis, 1948 PP/WWS/B.3/2
Norah Blanche Woodman, nurse (b.1885): papers include financial statements of the Parish of St Mary, Lambeth Board of Guardians, 1910–29 GC/56
West Lambeth Community Health Council: R K Freudenberg’s file re mental health services, 1982 PP/RKF/D.10

– see also Personal Papers: Herbert Davies Chalke

Societies and Associations

Abortion Law Reform Association: South-East London Group, 1965–6 SA/ALR/A.9/6
BACUP (British Association of Cancer United Patients and their Family and Friends): papers relating to launch in the South Thames area, 1985–6; ; and files re South East and South West Thames Regional Cancer Organisations, 1985–7 SA/BAC/E.3/15–16, H.22-23
Camberwell Council on Alcoholism (f. 1962): Pioneering community organisation working on alcoholism (no longer active), 1960s–80s PP/CCA
Multiple Sclerosis Society: files on Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, London SW, Norwood, Southwark, Sutton Branches, 1950s-70s SA/MSS/C
National Birthday Trust Fund: Joint Council of Midwifery Nutrition Survey, correspondence about Yeast Vimal distribution in Deptford, 1938–40 SA/NBT/T.10/2/4
Quinn Square Social Centre Society, Southwark: minutes and correspondence, among the papers of Helen Alice Dorothy Barlow (1887-1975) c. 1935-1969 PP/BAR/Z/26-32
Research Defence Society: records of Bromley and Croydon branches, c. 1908–19 SA/RDS/D.1
Society of Medical Officers of Health/ Society of Community Health/ Society of Public Health (1856–1997): HIV prevention and care in Camberwell, 1988; brochures of Peckham Pioneer Health Centre, 1930s SA/SMO
Southwark Boys' Aid Association: records among the papers of Helen Alice Dorothy Barlow (1887-1975): letters, 1932-1936 PP/BAR/Z/8/112-138 Casebook, reports and miscellaneous papers, 1914-1936 and n.d. PP/BAR/Z/18-21 Hanwell Residential Schools (for whose pupils the Association was set up): see West London

Education

Barbara Evans: file relating to Helena Wright’s education at the Froebel Institute, Roehampton, 1895 PP/PRE/J.1/3
Morley College: files relating to Extension Lecture courses on psychology given by John Bowlby, 1932-[1939] PP/BOW/E.1
- see also Personal Papers: Stanley George Browne

Personal Papers

J Hugh Baron (b. 1931): The Brown Dog of University College (London) memorial to dog used for experimentation in 1903 in Battersea Park, funded by the Anti-vivisection League; his file about, 1955-86 GC/199
Stanley George Browne: material relating to his early life in South London, including schooling, 1917–28, attendance at evening classes run by various institutions, 1922–7, religious activities mostly in connection with Drummond Road Baptist Church Bermondsey, 1918–66 WTI/SGB/A
Herbert Davies Chalke (1897–1979): Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell, 1930s, papers on various public health issues GC/200
Hugh Cuolahan M.D. (1818-1884), Medical Officer of Health, Bermondsey: memoir of his early life by his daughter, plus notes on the family c. 1890-c. 1910 MS.4719
John Dixon, Medical Officer of Health, Bermondsey: apprenticeship papers, certificates, etc, 1848-1861 MS.5191 Diaries, with notes of patients seen, 1864, 1875 MSS.5950 & 6794 List of factories in Bermondsey, 1883 MS.2162
S. Forsyth, Walworth practitioner: annotated and revised copy of his Mother's Medical Pocket Book c. 1833 MS.5942
Dr. William Aurelius Harland (1822-1858): letters written while studying in London, including description of the Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street, 1842 MS.7682/5-8 Letter to his sister describing a visit to London and in particular to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, 1857 MS.7682/67
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, sculptor: letters to Henry Lee including descriptions of works on dinosaur sculptures, Crystal Palace Park, 1868-1879 MS.5383
Hodgkin family: papers including correspondence concerning a school at Croydon (see PP/HO/D/D52 for a paper on sick children at the school, and correspondence with Peter Bedford as indicated in the catalogue index) and describing travels in South London and the Surrey hinterland in 1823 See General section
Frederick Everard Hunt: personal papers include: indenture of apprenticeship to Stockwell apothecary Loraine Weaver, 1856 MS.7129/1 Letter from James Palfrey on Hunt's move to Sydenham MS.7129/7
J R Hutchinson (c. 1880–1955) and W H Bradley (1898–1975), of the Ministry of Health: file on vaccination accident in Woolwich, 1927 PP/JRH
Alfred King M.D. (fl. 1813-1875), general practitioner based for part of his career in Balham: certificates, 1840-1875 MS.7519
John Parkinson, medical student or practitioner of Wandsworth: medical recipes and notes c. 1747 MS.6148
James Patterson: visit to Crystal Palace, Christmas/New Year 1858/59: see General section
John Percy, metallurgist: letter describing the Dulwich Picture Gallery and its exposure to fire danger, 1860 MS.7400/78
Sir Lyon Playfair, chemist: fragment apparently taken from the minutes of the trustees of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, commissioning a report on the Gallery's state, 1858 MS.7431/33
Dr. Prior Purvis: letter to the architect George Godwin FRS concerning lectures on brick and stone to be given by Godwin to the Greenwich Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1844 MS.7433/50
Dr. Henry Richardson, Clapham: correspondence, 1899-1923 MS.7359
Thomas Hookham Silvester, founder of Clapham General Dispensary: notebook containing diary, notes and memoranda on financial and family affairs, and case notes, 1844-1876 MS.5869
Charles Spurgeon, preacher: letter describing healthy climate of Upper Norwood, 1888 MS.7566/176
Temple family (including 1st and 2nd Viscount Palmerston), East Sheen: book of medical recipes and notes of consultations, 1723-1862 MS.4764
John Thomson (fl. 1783-1795), surgeon, attached to Deptford Naval Yard and Kent Dispensary: manuscript on pregnancy Late 18th century MS.4779
Robert George Ranyard West (1900–1986): Records of his connection with the Seamen’s Hospital Society, Dreadnaught Hospital, Greenwich, 1930s PP/RRW/C

Readers are also referred to the Wellcome/National Archives Hospital Records Database for information on the records of numerous London Hospitals and to the survey of Medical Archives and Manuscripts, 1600-1945, in repositories in Greater London