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The record group includes 14 fonds:
TH 1. Nursing Education and Research Department fonds
TH 2. Department of Public Affairs and Communications fonds
TH 3. Status of Women Committee fonds
TH 4. Medical/Legal Affairs fonds
TH 5. Finance Directorate fonds
TH 6. Surgical Directorate fonds
TH 7. Medical Advisory Committee fonds
TH 8. Board of Trustees fonds
TH 9. Office of the President fonds
TH 10. Joint Hospital/University Relations Committee fonds
TH 11. Office of the Chief Operating Officer fonds
TH 12. Department of Strategic Planning fonds
TH 13. Office of the Executive Vice-President fonds
TH 14. The Toronto Hospital Auxiliary fonds

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by The Toronto Hospital Department of Public Affairs and Communications. The fonds includes 12 series:

2.1 The Toronto Hospital annual reports
2.2 Caring
2.3 Correspondence
2.4 Photographs
2.5 News Releases
2.6 Medical Staff Bulletins
2.7 Canadian Museum of Health and Medicine
2.8 Archives and Historical Committee
2.9 Miscellaneous publications and minutes
2.10 Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital
2.11 Western Hours
2.12 Scrapbooks

Series consists of minutes, correspondence, historical records and photographs created or collected by the Archives and Historical Committee. Material from the Department of Medical Photography and files from the Public Relations Photo and Slide Library are interspersed within these files. Some of this may be due to the dual roles of Committee members, but in the case of files 2.8.49 to 2.8.57 they appear to be files borrowed by the Chair of the Committee. No attempt has been made to rearrange these files according to their original provenance.

File 2.8.1 includes 2 photographs of Nuclear Cardiology from the early 1980s.

File 2.8.2 contains a photograph of a construction site at TGH in July 1977 and a patient handbook from TGH from [198-?].

Files 2.8.10 to 2.8.13 were originally kept in one binder and probably belonged to Peter Edwards, who was at one point Chairman of the Historical Committee. File names are taken from the divider titles.

File 2.8.16 includes a guide for the della Robia style plaques which hung in the Outpatient Clinical in the Mulock/Larkin Wing of the Toronto General Hospital.

File 2.8.30 includes copies of photographs from the 1940s that were made in 1978.

Fonds consists of records of The Toronto Hospital’s Finance and Audit Committees from the office of Vice-President, Finance, D. Arsenault. Some are her own personal copies with her handwritten notations. Fonds also includes background documents regarding the TGH-TWH merger from the office of Vice-President, Finance, Mr. J. Elliott, financial statements from the Toronto General Hospital, and patient admission ledgers from the Toronto Western Hospital. Fonds includes five series:

5.1 Finance Committee minutes
5.2 Audit Committee minutes
5.3 TGH-TWH Merger records
5.4 Financial statements
5.5 Patient admission ledgers

Series consists of photographs taken and collected by the Department during the time of David Allen as part of the Public Relations Department’s Photo and Slide Library. Files include photographs of Administration (former and current) of The Toronto Hospital, Trustees, Auxiliary, Dignitaries and Celebrities, Medical Staff, Residents, and so-called “historical archive files” referring to photographs of buildings, sites and past events. Some of the files also include newspaper clippings, enlargement and usage notations, speeches or programs, cataloguing information, consent forms, and mock-ups or samples of publications for which the photographs were used. Photographs were used for publications and other activities of this Department. Some of the material may also have been produced or used by IMS Creative Communications, a sub-department reporting to the Toronto General Hospital’s Public Relations Department.

Original consent forms are not part of this series. The original file list can be found in file 2.4.1. Subject files are arranged alphabetically. Staff and students are listed by their surname and then their given name. Headings have been included in the file list to indicate index tabs. Handwritten changes and additions to original file titles have been included as part of the file title.

File 2.4.52 includes correspondence from A. Hudson.

File 2.4.78 is of a patient who lived in the Toronto General Hospital for approximately 30 years of her life.

File 2.4.146 includes a ribbon-cutting photograph from the official opening of the Fraser M Fell Pavilion.

File 2.4.155 includes a photograph of American actor Mickey Rooney.

File 2.4.228 includes a photograph of American actor Mary Tyler Moore.

File 2.4.403 includes a biographical statement from Mr. Mickevicius.

File 2.4.426 includes a reproduction of an etching of Burnside Hospital in 1878.

File 2.4.428 includes a photograph of TB Outdoor Treatment, 1912 and the medical records department.

File 2.4.447 includes 4 photographs entitled “Fall of Burnside-June 1980” and 1 contact sheet entitled “Burnside demolition”.

File 2.4.450 includes photographs of Dunlap Building demolition.

File 2.4.455 includes photographs of early ambulances.

File 2.4.497 includes portraits of Drs. Rob Inman, Carl Laskin, Darrell Ogilvie-Harris, Rod Davey, Wayne Marshall, and John Craven.

File 2.4.521 includes images depicting cardiac rehab patients undergoing exercise therapy; name of patient removed from file title.

Files 2.4.522 to 2.4.525 were labeled file folders not listed in the departmental file list that came with the initial record transfer. Original order has been maintained.

File 2.4.508 contains a portrait of Dr. Augusta Stowe Gullen.

Files 2.4.596 and 2.4.596b contains historical images of Toronto General and Wellesley Hospitals from photographers Herb Knott & Co. Ltd.

File 2.4.599 contains images of the TTH Mascot, Shuttlebug.

File 2.4.607 includes images from the dedication of the Percy R. Gardiner Coronary Unit in June 1968.

File 2.4.616 seems to include images from Cardiovascular Research Day 1991, though there is no indication as to why; it could be misfiling from the office of origin.

File 2.4.620 includes images of Dr. Anthony Lane.

File 2.4.641 includes the OCI news release from 1985 regarding the Zeiss EM902 electron microscope and images of Dr. Ottensmeyer.

File 2.4.716 includes images of house staff; residents; Drs. R.M. Janes, Banting, Best, C.L. Starr, Morley, Botterell, Aikens, Beaumont, and Gordon Richards; Louise Eastwood, Charles O’Reilly, Mary Agnes Snively, Miss Balmer, Rev. John D. Strachan, and the original image of TGH nursing students observing an operation ca. 1895. This original image includes the names of the nurses and physicians on the verso.

File 2.4.723a includes images of the Burnside Lying-in Hospital / Maternity Building, TGH on Gerrard, the layout of the 1855 building, historical interiors, and an image of Dr. Don Wilson performing a heart transplant in the TWH OR.

File 2.4.732 includes images of: TGH nurses graduation 1969; clerical staff; early ambulances; cardiovascular surgery; medical equipment; opening of the Donald R. Wilson Centre for Research in Education; Black History Month; original image of neuropathology rounds with Dr. Eric Linell and Drs. Hyland, Tom, Lloyd, Woolen, and Wong; group shot from the retirement party for K.G. McKenzie with all staff identified; diabetic diet kitchen, college wing ca. 1930; group shot of Capt. Boddington, Major Hyland, Colonol Crass, Major Botterell, Capt. Richardson and Capt. McCormick taken by the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology, University of Toronto, September 1940; Burnside Lying-In Hospital; undated original photograph of TGH house staff with babies ca. 1920s; TGH Emergency Department; patient-model reading “Our Bodies Our Selves”; The Toronto Hospital Auxiliary Annual General Meeting 1998; Angela Ash posing with her drawings; Toronto Western Hospital Auxiliary 100th Anniversary tea 1997; opening for the Arthritis Centre of Excellence 1998; and “Hats Off” promotional shot for Project 2003.

File 2.4.732c has a group picture of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery, Toronto, Canada, November 1958.

File 2.4.836 includes pictures of the facilities in the Private Patients’ Pavilion.

File 2.4.894a includes a letter from Dr. B.S. Goldman regarding the origins of the TGH Pacemaker Club.

File 2.4.915 includes portraits of Drs. John Craver and Colin Shapiro.

File 2.4.920 includes pictures of the unveiling of a plaque and dedication for the John David Eaton Building and the Dunlap Radiological Centre by Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario Hon. John Black Aird, November 1980 and a historical plaque unveiling with Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario Hon. Pauline McGibbon, June 1980.

File 2.4.923a includes a picture of Dr. S. Herman with radiology residents.

File 2.4.934 has pictures from the nurses’ residence building.

File 2.4.991 includes pictures of Drs. Scott Adams and Luc DeNil.

File 2.4.992 includes pictures of Dr. Ruth Martin.

File 2.4.993 includes pictures of Drs. Ruth Martin and Nick Diamant.

File 2.4.999 includes a group picture of a staff baseball team ca. 1925, as well as pictures of teams from the 1970s-1990s.

File 2.4.1015 includes a pre-1960 picture of the TGH Switchboard.

File 2.4.1023 includes pictures of Drs. K.G. McKenzie, Gordon Murray, Charles Tator, W.G. Bigelow, J. Callaghan, Botterell, J.W. Scott, R. Tasker, J. Mann, Tak Mak, G. Davidson, and Augusta Stowe Gullen.

File 2.4.1025c has a prop-up display for the “Strengthen the hands that heal” fund campaign.

File 2.4.1098b has a picture of patients doing crafts.

File 2.4.1108 includes photographs in which actors are portraying patients. No actual patients are in the images.

File 2.4.1109 includes photographs of Mary Tyler Moore and James Garner while filming at the hospital.

File 2.4.1110 includes sheets of slides from May 3, 1989 of Italian and Canadian flags photographed by Gary Beechey, and a sheet of slides for the Sign up for Life organ donation campaign photographed by Toronto General Hospital Photography.

File 2.4.1127 includes two slides of the first operation conducted in Max Bell.

File 2.4.1133 includes some slides of the transplant operating room and operations.

File 2.4.1149 includes images of the exterior of the Toronto Institute of Medical Technology from 1976 as well as images of early computers used in the hospital.

File 2.4.1167 includes pictures of Dr. Charles Tator, the opening of the Kensington Market Clinic in 1987, and the 1st birthday celebrations for The Toronto Hospital in 1987.

File 2.4.1178 includes images of Philip C. Hassen, CEO and Senior Vice President, 1987

Series consists of bound minutes from the Medical Advisory Committee of The Toronto Hospital.

Fonds includes eight series of minutes:

8.1 TGH/TTH Board of Trustees minutes
8.2 Toronto Western Hospital Board of Trustees Minutes
8.3 Toronto Western Hospital Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Members
8.4 Audit Committee minutes
8.5 Clinical Quality Assurance Committee minutes
8.6 Finance Committee minutes
8.7. Human Resources Committee minutes
8.8 Planning Committee minutes

Series consists of news releases issued by the Department of Public Affairs and Communications. The releases cover a variety of news items such as research developments, information sessions, and events taking place at TTH.

Series consists of correspondence and reports from the curator of the Canadian Museum of Health and Medicine, as well as miscellaneous publications accumulated by the Curator. File 2.7.14 to 2.7.17 consists of material donated to the Museum by Dr. John Desmond in October 1997. These materials relate to his privately produced booklets on the history of medicine in Toronto. File 2.7.18 includes a letter from Margaret Best to Dr. Bill Bigelow explaining the history of the photograph of Banting and Best on the roof of the UofT medical sciences building with one of the diabetic dogs (Marjorie?) used in experiments with insulin , and a copy of the booklet TGH 150 Years (1829-1979) with notations.

Series consists of minutes of the TGH and TTH Board of Trustees. Minutes from 1822-1994 are in 39 bound volumes. Minutes from 1995-1998 were kept loose in binders. As of the meeting of October 1986, a joint meeting of the Boards of both the Toronto General Hospital and the Toronto Western Hospital, the minutes change from being for the TGH Board of Trustees to those of the TTH Board of Trustees. It was at that meeting that the Chairman, Vice-Chairmen and Secretary for the new Board of Trustees for The Toronto Hospital were elected. However, all minutes continued to be bound identically and labeled as Minutes of Meetings for the Board of Trustees of the Toronto General Hospital. Minutes for the period of May 1848 to February 1866 are missing. Several items and appendices are also missing from the minutes for July, September and December 1997. A sheet listing the items missing from 1997 can be found in file 8.1.61 along with the minutes for January 1997.

Series consists of the annual reports of The Toronto Hospital Corporation, prepared and published by TTH Department of Public Affairs and Communications on behalf of TTH 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 and the President identifying and describing significant TTH accomplishments and events; annual financial statements outlining the Hospital’s revenues and expenses; photographs and illustrations depicting Hospital buildings, facilities, services and staff.

The fonds consists of by-laws and agreements maintained by Medical/Legal Affairs. The fonds includes two series:

4.1 Hospital By-Laws
4.2 Corporate Agreements

Fonds consists of five series:

14.1 TTH Auxiliary (General Division) Minutes
14.2 TTH Auxiliary (General Division) Annual Reports
14.3 TTH Auxiliary (General Division) Scrapbooks
14.4 TTH Auxiliary (General Division) Correspondence
14.5 Histories and Ephemera

Series consists of yearly scrapbooks containing minutes, annual reports, newsletters, photographs, newspaper clippings, volunteer handbooks, membership lists, and advertisements for events hosted by the Auxiliary.

Series consists of copies of <i>Caring</i>, the TTH weekly staff newsletter. <i>Caring</i> was first published April 7, 1989, replacing <i>Generally Speaking</i>, the staff newsletter of the Toronto General Hospital (Sub-series 7.1, The Toronto General Hospital fonds).

The newsletter contains news and announcements, including staff appointments and retirements; special events; changes to Hospital services and facilities, organizational charts, obituaries etc.

Files 2.2.8 to 2.2.9 contain some of the master copies of the issues.

There are some errors in issue numbering. Some issues are also missing.

Series contains published histories of the TTH auxiliary and its predecessor bodies. Series also contains two meeting gavels as well as pins handed out to members in recognition of their years of service.

The Auxiliary’s recognition pins were originated and established by the committee of Terry Globe, Margaret Hicks and Ruth Johnson in 1989. The pins were given out for the first time on Volunteer Night, October 4th, 1989, and afterwards to all volunteers with five or more years of service. The first lot of pins (approximately 200 – value approximately $2, 300.00) were paid for by the Cradle Pictures baby photo company and given as a gift to the Auxiliary.

Series contains publications, reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and photographs from OCI/PMH which were accumulated by the staff of the TTH Department of Public Affairs and Communications.

File 2.10.23 includes copies of Let’s Move It newsletter (Volume 2, Issue 3 and Volume 2, Issue 5).

File 2.10.32 includes 29 photographs from Dr. Harold John’s retirement party.

Series consists of the signed merger agreement between The Toronto Hospital and the Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital:

4.2.1 Merger agreement between TTH and OCI/PMH (1997)

Series consists of correspondence sent and received by Department staff including newsletters, minutes, and newspaper clippings.

File 2.3.2 includes TTH Abuse Policies.

File 2.3.12 contains a photograph of Dr. Robson.

Series consists of the official minutes of the TTH Board of Trustees Clinical Quality Assurance Committee as well as quality management reports presented to the Committee from various TTH departments.

The files were originally stored by year in 3 separate binders. Files are arranged chronologically as per originally binders. Original binder names have been included as headings within the file list.

File 8.5.2 includes a quality management report from the Surgical Directorate, October 1993. File 8.5.3 includes a quality management presentation from the Department of Radiology. File 8.5.4 includes a quality improvement report from the Neurological Centre. File 8.5.5 includes a quality improvement report from the Multi-Organ Transplant Program. File 8.5.7 includes a copy of a quality improvement presentation from the Oncology Program dated May 31, 1994. File 8.5.8 includes a quality improvement report from the Cardiac Centre dated 1994. File 8.5.10 includes a TTH quality improvement status report dated August 1994. File 8.5.11 includes a quality improvement presentation from the Department of Psychology. File 8.5.12 includes a quality report from the Occupational Therapy Department. File 8.5.16 includes a quality report from the Department of Speech-Language Pathology. File 8.5.17 includes a quality report from the Social Work Department. File 8.5.20 includes a quality report from the Department of Clinical Biochemistry. File 8.5.21 includes quality improvement presentations from the Departments of Microbiology and Medical Imaging. File 8.5.22 includes a quality improvement report from the Department of Multi-Organ Transplant. File 8.5.24 includes a quality survey report from the Volunteer Resources Department dated October 1996.