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Acts and By-Laws
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 1-TG 1.7 · Subseries · 1847-1939
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of legislative bills and acts pertaining to the Toronto General Hospital, and by-laws adopted by the TGH Board of trustees and sanctioned by the Provincial Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

Annual Reports
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 1-TG 1.2 · Subseries · 1891-1986
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of annual reports prepared and published by the Board of Trustees. Reports contain such information as lists of administrative and medical staff; statistics and/or departmental reports illustrating major hospital functions, services and activities; summary reports by the chairman of the Board of Trustees, the hospital’s chief executive officer, and the Director of the TGH School of Nursing; annual financial statements outlining the hospital’s revenues and expenses; photographs and illustrations depicting hospital buildings, facilities, services and staff.

From ca. 1920-1926 the TGH annual report was published in the form of a report by the Superintendent entitled “For the Common Good” (see files TG 2.1.4 to TG 2.1.6). From ca. 1926-1951 no annual report was published by the TGH.

File 1.2.8 contains TGH annual reports for the years 1905-1908 which were restored and bound together in November, 1988.

Toronto General Hospital. Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees records
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 1 · Series · 1822-1986
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Series consists of annual lists of appointments to the TGH medical staff; TGH annual reports; minutes of meetings of the Board and its subcommittees; correspondence; lists of members of the Board; materials relating to special events and ceremonies at the TGH; legislative acts and by-laws pertaining to the TGH; visitors registers; and documents pertaining to the management of property owned by and/ or endowed to the TGH. The series includes ten sub-series:

TG 1.1 Medical Staff Appointments
TG 1.2 Annual Reports
TG 1.3 Minutes
TG 1.4 Correspondence
TG 1.5 Membership Lists
TG 1.6 Special Events and Ceremonies
TG 1.7 Acts and By-Laws
TG 1.8 Visitors Registers
TG 1.9 Properties and Endowment
TG 1.10 Executive Committee records

Toronto General Hospital. Board of Trustees
Correspondence
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 1-TG 1.4 · Subseries · 1844-1968
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of correspondence to and from members of the Board of Trustees, legal counsel for the Trustees, and the Board Secretary. The greatest part of the materials contained in this Sub-series is correspondence from the chairman of the Board with subscribers to the TGH Building fund 1918-1934, including lists of subscribers and their commitments, letters of acknowledgment, receipts, subscription cards and invoices.

Toronto General Hospital. Board of Trustees
Executive Committee records
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 1-TG 1.10 · Subseries · 1917-1946
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of minutes of monthly meetings of the Executive Committee of the TGH Board of Trustees December 1917-May 1946. Minutes principally contain monthly Hospital financial account records, specifically itemized lists of cheques issued to cover Hospital expenses, including pay roll, medical supplies and drugs, and food.

Minutes for November 1926-December 1927 and for February 1930-September 1932 are missing.

Toronto General Hospital. Board of Trustees
Medical Staff Appointments
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 1-TG 1.1 · Subseries · 1948-1975
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of lists of appointments to the TGH medical staff, as prepared by the Office of the Medical Director in consultation with the heads of the various medical departments and services, sanctioned by the Medical Advisory Board and the Joint Hospital Relations Committee and approved by the Board of Trustees. Some files contain separate courtesy staff appointment lists.

Toronto General Hospital. Board of Trustees
Membership Lists
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 1-TG 1.5 · Subseries · 1950-1974
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of lists of members of the Board of Trustees.

Toronto General Hospital. Board of Trustees
Minutes
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 1-TG 1.3 · Subseries · 1822-1966
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of a very small sample of the minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees and its various sub-committees.

File 1.3.5 contains minutes of sub-committees to consider practical issues relating to the plans to move the TGH to its College St./University Avenue location: Committee to Consider the Reorganization of the TGH Constitution and Government; Committee to Consider Provisions for Treating Pulmonary Tuberculosis at TGH; Building Committee (re: choosing an architect); and the Committee on the Reorganization of the Medical Staff. File 1.3.6 contains a series of excerpts from the minutes of the Board of Trustees March 1926-April 1930, concerning plans for expansion, the building fund campaign, construction and opening of new buildings.

Toronto General Hospital. Board of Trustees
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 2 · Series · 1864-1985
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Series consists of reports (monthly, annual) to the Board of Trustees, correspondence and general administration files of the Superintendent/ Executive Director, and other files created or maintained by the Superintendent/Executive Director’s office such as organization charts, procedures manuals, and records related to capital grants, donations and bequests. The series includes 31 sub-series:

2.1 Reports to Board of Trustees
2.2 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1928 [C.J. Decker]
2.3 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1929 [C.J. Decker]
2.4 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1930 [C.J. Decker]
2.5 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1931 [C.J. Decker]
2.6 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1932 [C.J. Decker]
2.7 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1933 [C.J. Decker]
2.8 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1934 [C.J. Decker]
2.9 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1935 [C.J. Decker]
2.10 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1936 [C.J. Decker]
2.11 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1937 [C.J. Decker]
2.12 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1938 [C.J. Decker]
2.13 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1939 [C.J. Decker]
2.14 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1940 [C.J. Decker]
2.15 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1947 [Dr. J.E. Sharpe]
2.16 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1949 [Dr. J.E. Sharpe]
2.17 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1950 [Dr. J.E. Sharpe]
2.18 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1951 [Dr. J.E. Sharpe]
2.19 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1952 [Dr. J.E. Sharpe]
2.20 Superintendent’s Correspondence and General Administration Files 1953-1966 [Dr. J.E. Sharpe]
2.21 Special Capital Grants 1955-1962
2.22 Superintendent’s Correspondence Log 1963
2.23 Information for Superintendent’s Secretary [196-?]
2.24 Organization Charts [196-?]-1979
2.25 TGH Planning Report 1968
2.26 Procedures Manuals [1962?]-[1976?]
2.27 Hospital Rules and Regulations 1900-[192-?]
2.28 Press Clippings 1927-1967
2.29 Dr. W.G. Cosbie Papers 1965-1975
2.30 Miscellaneous records 1864-1985
2.31 Donations and bequests

Toronto General Hospital. Office of the President
Property and Endowment
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 1-TG 1.9 · Subseries · 1822-1956
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of documents relating to the lease, mortgage, sale etc. of properties owned, occupied or managed by the Trustees of the Toronto General Hospital and documents relating to the management and disposition of estates endowed to the Trustees of the Toronto General Hospital, including wills and letters probate. Sub-series also includes a ledger of lessees to the Toronto General Hospital.

File 1.9.31 contains original deeds conveying property to the Trustees of the York Hospital (later the Toronto General Hospital) 1822-1850.

Toronto General Hospital. Board of Trustees
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 1-TG 1.6 · Subseries · 1911-1981
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of various materials relating to special events and ceremonies associated with the TGH and organized by the Board of Trustees, including invitations, event programs and commemorative publications, guest lists, statements by event organizers and participants, correspondence.

File 1.6.1 contains materials deposited in a cornerstone box in April 1911 during a ceremony marking the start of the building of the College St. site of the TGH, including lists as of April 11, 1911 of TGH House Medical Staff, nursing staff (including student nurses), and honorary governors of the Board of Trustees; “A Brief Historical Sketch of the Toronto General Hospital, its Origin and its Progress…1818 to 1911”, a manuscript by A.F. Miller, TGH Secretary and Treasurer 1876-1917; a “List of Special Grants and Subscriptions to the new TGH Building Fund” 1905-1911; and an “Original Estimate of Cost of the new Buildings of the TGH” adopted by the Board of Trustees March 2, 1910.

File 1.6.11 contains a sketchbook commissioned by Toronto General Hospital and presented to Sir John M Gibson, Lt. Governor of Ontario, to mark the opening of its new buildings, designed by Darling & Pearson at 101 College Street, June 1913 to January 1914. Gold-stamped leather binding design, title page inscription, and six black-and-brown ink drawings by J.E.H. MacDonald depicting various TGH buildings.

File 1.6.12 contains a booklet on the Private Patients Building printed by Grip Limited, Toronto for W.G. Macfarlane Ltd. With decorative borders and cover by J.E.H. MacDonald and line drawings by Tom Thomson. Undated, but probably to commemorate opening of new TGH buildings, June 1913 to January 1914.

File 1.6.13 contains the menu and program for a dinner in honour of W.E. Gallie on the occasion of his retirement from the chair of surgery at the University of Toronto, 1947. Includes illustrations designed and drawn by Mabel Gill with the aid of R.I. Harris.

Toronto General Hospital. Board of Trustees
CA ON00343 TG fonds · Fonds · 1822 - 1989

Fonds consists of the records of the administrative office and bodies of the Toronto General Hospital in addition to those of various medical departments. The fonds includes 36 series:

TG 1. Board of Trustees records
TG 2. Office of the President records
TG 3. Office of the Vice President, Medical Affairs records
TG 4. Medical Advisory Board records
TG 5. Ontario Institute of Radiotherapy records
TG 6. Department of Radiology records
TG 7. Public Relations Department records
TG 8. Special Treatment Clinic records
TG 9. Middle Management Group records
TG 10. Medical Staff Association records
TG 11. Department of Microbiology records
TG 12. Office of the Director of Utilization and Special Services records
TG 13. Department of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine records
TG 14. Interdisciplinary Task Force of Behavioural Sciences and Allied Groups records
TG 15. Medical Records Department records
TG 16. Social Service Department records
TG 17. Nursing Department records
TG 18. Cardiovascular Investigation Unit records
TG 19. TGH Pharmacopoeia
TG 20. Office of the Supervisor, In-Patient Accounts records
TG 21. Vascular Bank records
TG 22. Division of Neurosurgery records
TG 23. Administrative Council records
TG 24. Department of Nutrition Services records
TG 25. Miscellaneous Publications
TG 26. Toronto General Hospital Bowling League records
TG 27. Biochemistry records
TG 28. Office of the Chief Operating Officer records
TG 29. Toronto General Hospital Foundation records
TG 30. Toronto General Hospital Auxiliary records
TG 31. Certificates and Diplomas
TG 32. Finance Department records
TG 33. Plans and Architectural Drawings
TG 34. Toronto Hospitals Steam Corporation records
TG 35. TGH House Staff photographs
TG 36. TGH Photography Department negatives

Toronto General Hospital
Visitors Registers
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 1-TG 1.8 · Subseries · 1853-1973
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of visitors registers maintained by the Board of Trustees.

File 1.8.1 contains newspaper clippings, lists of Hospital Trustees and staff, and photographs pasted in the endpapers.

File 1.8.4 predominantly contains visitors’ signatures dated April 21-26, 1930 and was used to record the names of visitors to the new Private Patients Pavilion (Bell Wing).

Files 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 record admissions and visits to the Hospital by members of two independent fraternal organizations, respectively the Independent Order of Foresters and the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows.

Toronto General Hospital. Board of Trustees