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Series consists of instructions to patients for performing rehabilitative exercises; sample blank forms used by the Department in testing patients for diagnostic purposes and in documenting patients’ treatments; blank forms and instruction sheets used in documenting and evaluating the employment activities of Department personnel; and miscellaneous materials (chiefly sample blank forms) used in conducting the daily business of the Department.

Series consists of admission registers kept by the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, April 1982-December 1989; personal and professional papers of TGH neurosurgeons 1934-1979; various materials relating to the opening of the new TGH neurosurgical unit, November 1958; correspondence and photographs relating to TGH chief neurosurgical residents 1931-1984; various papers of Dr. T.P. Morley, Head of the TGH Division of Neurosurgery 1962-1979; and miscellaneous records, including photographs of Jessie Young from 1998.

Series includes six sub-series:

22.1 Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit records
22.2 Neurosurgeons’ papers
22.3 Opening of Neurosurgical Unit
22.4 Chief Neurosurgical Residents
22.5 Dr. T.P. Morley papers
22.6 Miscellaneous records

File 22.5.1 contains correspondence, reports, proposals etc., created, received and collected 1965-1983 by Dr. T.P. Morley in his capacity as TGH Neurosurgeon-in-Chief (1962-1979) and thereafter concerning long-term planning and development of the TGH Division of Neurosurgery and the proposed Playfair Neurosciences Unit (established 1978 at the Toronto Western Hospital). File 22.5.2 contains a memorandum Dr. Morley prepared for his private information concerning his involvement in the TGH Task Force on Nursing 1969, and related developments in the administration of the TGH Nursing Department. File 22.5.3 contains copies of annual reports (1972/1973 to 1978/1979) of the University of Toronto Division of Neurosurgery, prepared by Dr. Morley in his capacity as Chairman of the Division. File 22.5.4 includes a memorandum Dr. Morley created for his private information concerning a meeting (November 29, 1968) of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Council at which was discussed the issue of “democratic Faculty representation on high levels of university government…[and on the] Borden Committee…[a standing committee of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto charged with] deciding the future structure and fate of the medical school”.

The Dr. W.G. Bigelow fonds consists of 21 series of textual records documenting the life and work of the pioneering Canadian heart surgeon, medical researcher, and co-developer of the cardiac pacemaker, Dr. Wilfred G. Bigelow:

0094-1 Appointment books
0094-2 Medical textbooks
0094-3 Case histories
0094-4 Medical conference programs
0094-5 Patient/surgery lists
0094-6 General patient files
0094-7 Correspondence
0094-8 Experimental and clinical research files
0094-9 Lectures and speeches
0094-10 Diagnoses and procedures
0094-11 Medical research grants-in-aid
0094-12 Professional Societies, Associations and Committees
0094-13 Toronto General Hospital files
0094-14 Medical insurance accounts
0094-15 University of Toronto files
0094-16 Medical journal publications
0094-17 Meetings
0094-18 Japanese publications on hypothermia research
0094-19 Travel files
0094-20 Medical office expenses
0094-21 Income tax returns

Collectively, the materials comprising this fonds illustrate virtually every aspect of Dr. Bigelow's personal and professional life as a surgeon and hospital division head, academic instructor and researcher, clinical investigator, author, lecturer, medical conference presenter and panellist, and member of numerous medical societies and medical/scientific committees.

In particular the fonds provides information about Dr. Bigelow's contributions to the advancement of cardiac surgery and the treatment of heart disease, especially his central accomplishments in contributing to the innovation and development of the surgical use of hypothermia in open-heart surgery and the electrical artificial cardiac pacemaker.

Sub-series consists of various materials relating to the publication of Dr. W.G. Cosbie’s history of the TGH: The Toronto General Hospital 1819-1965: A Chronicle Toronto: MacMillan, 1975. Dr. Cosbie contracted with the TGH Board of Trustees, through the Office of the President, to research and write the history. The Office of the President managed the editing and publication process. Copyright in the work belongs to the Toronto General Hospital.

Files 2.29.1 to 2.29.3 contain correspondence with Dr. Cosbie, editors, publishers’ representatives and others. Materials include a contractual agreement with MacMillan of Canada Ltd., reports by various editorial readers, and promotional materials.

File 2.29.4 contains editorial corrections made by Dr. Cosbie [1974?]. File 2.29.5 contains research notes and copies of various documents used by Dr. Cosbie. Files 2.29.6 to 2.29.9 contain the corrected typescript delivered by Dr. Cosbie to the Office of the President in November 1972.

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 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.

Sub-series consists of the Committee’s final report, submitted to the Medical Advisory Board January 4, 1950, and a memorandum summarizing the Committee’s findings submitted by the Medical Advisory Board to the TGH Board of Trustees.

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 financial statements for various TGH departments which were accumulated by TTH Finance Department.

Sub-series consists of copies of Generally Speaking, a weekly newsletter for TGH staff, published June 4, 1982 to March 31, 1989. Generally Speaking was succeeded by The Toronto Hospital staff newsletter, Caring.

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

Sub-series consists of rules and regulations for Hospital staff, patients and visitors issued by the CEO from time to time. Sub-series consists of two files:

2.27.1 General Rules for Medical Assistants 1900
2.27.2 Rules for Patients and Visitors [192-?]

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

Sub-series consists of instructions, model forms and sample correspondence maintained by the Superintendent to guide his Secretary in conducting certain recurring administrative business of the Office. Included are sample forms and letters for reporting infant deaths, compiling and updating lists of medical staff appointments and corresponding with appointees, preparing notices of meetings, agendas, minutes, and correspondence for meetings of the Board of Trustees; definitions of terminology and summary information about the composition, powers and responsibilities of various Hospital bodies, such as the Joint Hospitals Relations Committee; and instructions on the collection, preparation and distribution of budget documents.

Sub-series consists of 3 files:

2.23.1 General Information
2.23.2 Information re: Board of Trustees
2.23.3 Information re: Medical Staff Appointments

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 the permanent records of intern staff, including performance appraisals. Some files also contain photographs of the interns.

The fonds includes one series of minutes:

10.1 Joint Hospital/University Relations Committee Minutes

Series consists of bound minutes of the Joint Hospital/ University Relations Committee.

Sub-series principally contains the chairman’s correspondence with librarians, the Medical Advisory Board, the TGH Medical Staff Association, library patrons and others. The files also contain some of the minutes of Committee meetings.

Series consists of bound minutes from the Medical Advisory Board/Committee of the Toronto General Hospital, which were kept in the office of the Department of Medical-Legal Affairs of The Toronto Hospital after the merger between the Toronto Western and Toronto General Hospitals.

Minutes of the Medical Advisory Board from its inception in 1876 to 1915 have not been transferred to the Archives and are considered missing.