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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

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.

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

Sub-series consists of correspondence and general administration files maintained by the Superintendent in conducting the day-to-day administration of the TGH.

Sub-series consists of correspondence and general administration files maintained by the Superintendent in conducting the day-to-day administration of the TGH. Sub-series has one file:

2.16.1 Salaries, 1949

Sub-series consists of correspondence and general administration files maintained by the Superintendent in conducting the day-to-day administration of the TGH. The original numbers given to each file are included in the file list.

Sub-series consists of correspondence between the Assistant Superintendent, Medical and the Medical Advisory Board concerning the medical management of the Hospital.

Sub-series has three files:
3.2.1. Correspondence, 1941
3.2.2. Correspondence, 1942
3.2.3. Correspondence, 1943

Sub-series consists of minutes of meetings and related correspondence, reports and other materials distributed and considered at meetings.

Sub-series consists of minutes of meetings and related correspondence, reports and other materials distributed and considered at meetings.

Sub-series consists of minutes of meetings and related correspondence, reports and other materials distributed and considered at meetings.

Minutes for 1968 are missing.

Sub-series consists of one file including lists of members of the Medical Advisory Board and its committees for the years 1971-1972:

4.16.1 List of members of the Medical Advisory Board and its committees for 1971-1972

Sub-series consists of annual reports prepared and published by the Director of the Ontario Institute of Radiotherapy. Reports summarize the work of the Institute in the year preceding and include information about Institute staff, financial statements, research reports and statistics outlining the volume of patient admissions and treatments.

Series consists of copies of two staff/community publications: Generally Speaking and Monitor; issues of the Medical Staff Bulletin; newspaper clippings pertinent to the TGH supplied under contract to the Department by the Canadian Press Clippings Service; and various materials associated with the Department’s coordination of the Hospital’s sesquicentennial celebrations in 1979.

The series includes five sub-series:

7.1 Generally Speaking [1982-1989]
7.2 Monitor [1968-1989]
7.3 Medical Staff Bulletin [1970-1972]
7.4 Newspaper clippings [1976-1980]
7.5 TGH Sesquicentennial Celebrations [1978-1979]

Series consists of minutes of meetings and the Task Force’s interim and final reports. The final report contains the Task Force’s recommendations and administrative summaries of the various departments represented in the Task Force.

Sub-series consists of patient case files. File 15.2.1 consists of one bound volume of patient records created in the TGH Medical Division 1913, containing files numbered 11601 - 11700 and identified as “Vol. 93 Medical - nervous”. File 15.2.2 consists of one bound volume of patient records created in the TGH military wards 1918 - 1919, containing files numbered 3401 - 3499, identified as “Vol. [24? 42?] Military Histories”, and classified by condition: Alimentary, Bones, Genito-Urinary, Glands, Joints, Nervous, Respiratory, Skin, Tendons, Vascular. File 15.2.3 contains the medical records of Leonard Thompson, the world’s first recipient of insulin (January 11, 1922) for control of diabetes mellitus.

Records include patient history, examination and progress notes, treatment record, urine and blood chart, clinical chart, bacteriologists’ reports.

Series consists of a copy of a booklet published in 1950 by the Social Service Association: Social Service in the Toronto General Hospital 1911-1949: A History of the Association and an Account of the Growth and Development of the Social Service Department.

Series consists of reports conducted by and for the Nursing Department and miscellaneous items. File 17.0.1 consists of a report on turnover in the Department, prepared in June 1981 by the Task Force on Nursing Turnover, Louise Lemieux-Charles and Bernice Gerhart Co-Chairpersons. The purpose of the Task Force was “to identify problems which may contribute to high staff turnover…[and] to make recommendations to improve retention of nursing staff.” File 17.0.2 consists of the final report (May 1983) on TGH Operating Room Services, conducted for the Vice President, Nursing by Woods Gordon Management Consultants. The report reviews factors “impeding the efficient utilization of the operating rooms and generating conflict amongst the staff” and makes recommendations, including “upgrading systems (information, staffing, materials management) and the expansion of some resources (space and staff).” File 17.0.3 consists of a Nursing Staff Survey (November 1983), a follow-up assessment of the effectiveness of staff retention strategies recommended in the report contained in file 17.0.1 .

Sub-series consists of individual photographs of TGH Chief Neurosurgical Residents 1932-[198?]; correspondence between the former Residents and Dr. T.P. Morley 1980-1984, chiefly concerning the photographs; lists of TGH neurosurgical residents 1931-1980; and humorous verses composed for the Residents’ annual Christmas skits [195?]-1960.

Series consists of the minutes of meetings of the Administrative Council January 1969-June 1970, and the minutes of meetings of the Executive Committee of the Administrative Council January 1969-February 1970.

Series consists of miscellaneous publications created by various Hospital departments.

Series includes three sub-series:

25.1 Hospital services
25.2 Information for staff
25.3 Information for patients