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CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 5-TG 5.1 · Subseries · 1934-1936
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of minutes of meetings of the Supervising Committee of the Ontario Institute of Radiotherapy. Sub-series consists of one file:

5.1.1 Minutes 1934-1936

Toronto General Hospital. Ontario Institute of Radiotherapy
Miscellaneous Publications
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 25 · Series · 1953-[198?]
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

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

Miscellaneous records
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 22-TG 22.6 · Subseries · 1998
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

File 22.6.1 contains 2 colour photographs of former TGH Neurosurgical operating room Head Nurse Jessie Young (taken in 1998), and the original key (1936) to Operating Room “D”, the first OR dedicated to neurosurgery at the TGH.

Toronto General Hospital. Division of Neurosurgery
Miscellaneous records
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 32-TG 32.5 · Subseries · 1876-1886
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

File 32.5.1 contains budget projections, notes and calculations created by the TGH Secretary, Mr. A.F. Miller in the course of preparing estimates of projected Hospital expenses and revenues, 1876-1886. File 32.5.2 contains a budget manual prepared and distributed in 1974 by the TGH Finance Department to provide instruction to Hospital managers responsible for preparing departmental budgets.

Toronto General Hospital. Finance Department
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 2-2.30 · Subseries · 1864-1985
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of miscellaneous records created and collected by the Office of the President.

File 2.30.1 contains the following items:

  1. Letters from the Director, Venereal Disease Control to TGH Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent, Medical re: TGH Special Treatment (Venereal Disease) Clinic, December 1943-February 1944
  2. Letter from TGH Physician-in-Chief to TGH Assistant Superintendent, Medical re: payment of honoraria to clinicians in TGH Special Treatment Clinic, March 1944
  3. Memoranda from TGH Assistant Superintendent, Medical to TGH Assistant Superintendent, Administrative re: payment of honoraria to clinicians in TGH Special Treatment Clinic, May 1946-April 1947
  4. Memorandum from TGH Assistant Superintendent, Administrative to Chairman, TGH Board of Trustees re: Province of Ontario grant to doctors serving in venereal disease clinics, February 1947
  5. Schedule of TGH Receipts and Disbursements of province of Ontario grant re: Venereal Disease clinics July 1, 1942-June 30, 1947
  6. Letter from Administrator, Wellesley Hospital to Chairman, TGH Board of Trustees re: oversight in auditor’s statement, May 1948
  7. Clarkson, Gordon & Co., Accountants, Financial Statements of TGH for year ended December 31st 1947
  8. List of TGH employees as at September 30, 1947, with marital status, job title, salary, dates of employment and birth
  9. [Superintendent’s?] memorandum of interviews with Dr. K.G. McKenzie re: proposed combined Neurological Division, April 1946
  10. Letter from Dr. K.G. McKenzie to Chairman, TGH Board of Trustees re: proposed improvements in Neurological Service, March 1947
  11. Letter from Dr. K.G. McKenzie to TGH Surgeon-in-Chief re: plan for expansion and improvement of the Division of Neurosurgery, September 1947
  12. Agreement between the Wellesley Hospital and Dr. K.P. Bonner re: radiology service, June 1947
  13. Copy of letter from Administrator, Wellesley Hospital to Chairman, Board of Trustees, Wellesley Hospital re: various issues of administration, May 1948
  14. Memorandum from TGH Assistant Superintendent, Administrative to TGH Superintendent re: fees and collections for Out-Patients’ Department, December 1947
  15. Letter from Mathers & Haldenby, Architects re: enclosing balconies on TGH buildings, May 1947
  16. Memorandum from TGH Assistant Superintendent, Administrative to TGH Superintendent re: expected retirement of certain employees, October 1948

File 2.30.2 contains the following items:

  1. List of committees of Medical Advisory Board, with Chairman and members, September 1950
  2. List of Heads of Medical Clinic, Out-Patient Department 1905-April 1950
  3. Out-Patient Clinic attendance statistics January 1 to August 31, 1949
  4. Out-Patient Clinic attendance statistics January 1 to August 31, 1950
  5. List of members of Joint Hospitals Relations Committee, 1949
  6. List of resident surgeons and Ward C senior surgeons during Dr. Norman Shenstone’s tenure as Head of Ward C Service in surgery, July 1 1922 to June 30, 1946
  7. Nurses’ Registration Act, R.S.O. 1937, c. 230
  8. TGH surgical residents 1921-1928
  9. Notes on history of the TGH and the Wellesley Division of the TGH, October 1949
  10. Agreement between the Board of Governors, University of Western Ontario and the Board of Trustees of Victoria Hospital and the Corporation of the City of London, December 1949
  11. Excerpts from minutes of [TGH Board of Trustees?] re: TGH Dental Clinic 1922-1947
  12. Instructions to Internes re: Coroner’s Cases [194?]
  13. General Regulations for the Guidance of Internes [194?]
  14. Memorandum of Agreement made between the Trustees of the TGH, the Chief Coroner, the Crown Attorney and the Chief Constable, with Extracts taken from the Coroner’s Act, for the Guidance of House Physicians [194?]
  15. Allocation of Public Beds, Wellesley Hospital, July 1949
  16. Staff and salaries of Department of Pathology and Bacteriology, July 1949
  17. Operating room fees, September 1949
  18. Charges to public ward patients for routine drug and laboratory services, April 1950
  19. Letter from Ontario Deputy Minister of Health to TGH Superintendent re: alterations to second floor, South Wing, Wellesley Division of the TGH, October 1949
  20. Superintendent’s correspondence with H.H. Angus and Associates Ltd., Consulting Engineers re: TGH Power House, June 1948-April 1949
  21. Letter from Comptroller, University of Toronto to Chairman, TGH Board of Trustees re: steam for new Charles H. Best Institute from TGH Power Plant, October 1949
  22. Copy of letter from Karel R. Rybka, Consulting Engineer, to Rosenberg & Smith, Barristers re: arrangements for TGH to undertake incineration of waste from Mount Sinai Hospital, September 1949
  23. Draft versions of Notice of proposed Change of By-Law Respecting the TGH Medical Staff to the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto, 1949
  24. List of staff doctors 1949-1950
  25. List of staff doctors 1950-1951

File 2.30.3 contains the following items:

  1. Revenue and Expense Statement
  2. Statement of Operating Revenue [for all Hospital departments]
  3. Statement of Departmental Expense [for all Hospital departments]
  4. Balance Sheet
  5. Statement of Departmental Expense - Department of Radiology
  6. Statement of Departmental Operating Revenue - Department of Radiology

File 2.30.4 contains the following items:

  1. Outline of the Administration of the TGH (with special reference to the Professional Service)
  2. Duties of the Assistant Superintendent, Medical
  3. Relation of the Superintendent of nurses to the Administration in various hospitals
  4. Notes on strategies for dealing with deficits in various hospitals
  5. Charts outlining proposed changes to the administrative organization of the TGH

File 2.30.6 includes the contents of a notebook found in Mr. R.W. Longmore’s desk following his retirement in 1957.

File 2.30.8 contains documents concerning the TGH’s sale of 514 Jarvis St. and the expropriation and demolition of 496 Sherbourne St., including correspondence, legislative orders-in-council, By-Laws, offers of sale and expropriation notices.

File 2.30.10 contains a copy of an unpublished typescript “The Life and Times of Dr. Christopher Widmer” by Dr. W.A. McFall, and related correspondence 1959-1962; and correspondence re: cleaning the TGH portrait of Dr. Widmer, 1954.

File 2.30.11 contains a pamphlet used in promoting the TGH Building Fund Campaign 1927-1933.

File 2.30.12 contains the following items:

  1. Summary of conditions of employment at TGH April 1938-December 1944
  2. Schedule of Employee Classifications and Salaries at TGH, January 1949
  3. Statement of Employee Classifications and Salaries at other Toronto and regional hospitals, May 1949
  4. Table of Wage Rates, 1947
  5. Schedule of Bi-Weekly Wage Rates, [194?]
  6. Schedule of Proposed Changes in Basic Wage Scales, draft and corrected versions [194?; before 1947]
  7. Collective Agreement between TGH and the Building Service Employees’ International Union, 1945
  8. Schedule of Basic Wage Changes at TGH 1932-1946
  9. Recommendations re: wage changes in Nursing Department by Mary E. Macfarland, Superintendent of Nurses, July 1946
  10. Comparative Pay Roll Summary March 1939-March 1945, showing salary increases

File 2.30.13 contains the following items:

  1. Summary of Analysis
  2. Analysis of Revenue
  3. Analysis of Operating Expenses
  4. Analysis of Salaries
  5. Analysis of Operating Expenses, Private Operating Rooms and Labour Rooms

File 2.30.16 contains statistics re: patient management at the TGH 1926-1966 [predominant 1964-1966], including daily census/ bed capacity figures; admission and discharge statistics; charts showing average length of patient stay, classified by medical department.

File 2.30.17 contains photographic clippings pasted in a notebook, including pictures of TGH buildings and staff. Many materials appear to relate to the history of professional nursing and nursing education at the TGH.

File 2.30.18 contains correspondence re: the Pathology Building, the Dunlap Building and the Banting Institute; the TGH Department of pathology; and a proposed autopsy service at TGH.

File 2.30.21 includes cancelled cheques, invoices and receipts documenting Hospital purchases of goods and services from various suppliers, 1918.

File 2.30.26 contains a copy of a special issue of Construction devoted to the new College St. site of the TGH, 1913, including photographs and architectural drawings.

File 2.30.36 includes announcement of retirement of Mary E. Macfarland as Director of Nursing and appointment of Jean Dodds as Acting Director of Nursing, [1960]; press clippings re: Miss Macfarland, 1960; and notice of appointment of Eileen Strike as Director of Nursing Service, 1971.

File 2.30.41 contains a register of TGH properties under rent [195?], prepared by the TGH Property and Endowment Department and maintained by the Office of the Superintendent. The register includes annotated plates from a City of Toronto atlas showing TGH properties under rent and accompanying textual descriptions of each property, including surveyed dimensions, nature of existing structure(s), terms and conditions of lease etc.

Toronto General Hospital. Office of the President
Monitor
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 7-TG 7.2 · Subseries · 1968-1989
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of copies of Monitor, a community newsletter “for staff and friends of TGH.” Monitor was published monthly 1968-1982, then quarterly 1983-1989. Files are incomplete, especially for 1968-1973.

Toronto General Hospital. Public Relations Department
Neurosurgeons' papers
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 22-TG 22.2 · Subseries · 1934-1979
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of personal and professional papers of TGH neurosurgeons, including Dr. K.G. McKenzie, Dr. W.D. Stevenson, Dr. R. Tasker, and Dr. E.H. Botterell. File 22.2.1 contains Dr. R. Tasker’s notes, correspondence, itineraries and reports on his McLaughlin Fellowship tour of neurosurgical research and treatment centres in Europe and the USA 1959-1961. File 22.2.2 contains a copy of a thesis submitted by Dr. W.D. Stevenson for the Master of Surgery Degree at the University of Toronto: “Chronic Subdural Hematoma in Adults” (1947), published by the Neurosurgical Services of the TGH. File 22.2.3 contains correspondence, typescript notes, abstracts, drafts, illustrations and case reports 1934 - 1936 relating to a paper by Dr. K.G. McKenzie entitled “Intracranial Division of the Vestibular Portion of the Auditory Nerve in Meniere’s Disease”, later published CMAJ 34 (April 1936) 369-381. File 22.2.4 contains the text of a speech delivered by Dr. E.H. Botterell at a special convocation of the University of Toronto on the occasion of his receiving an honorary degree, 1979.

CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 22-TG 22.1 · Subseries · 1982-1988
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of admission registers kept by the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, April 1982-December 1989. Registers include patient names, dates of admission to TGH and to the Neurosurgical ICU, address, attending doctors’ names, patients’ date of birth and OHIP number, diagnosis, TGH history number, date of discharge or death and destination at discharge.

Toronto General Hospital. Division of Neurosurgery
Newspaper clippings
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 7-TG 7.4 · Subseries · 1976-1980
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of newspaper clippings pertinent to the TGH supplied under contract to the Public Relations Department by the Canadian Press Clippings Service. Clippings are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Toronto General Hospital. Public Relations Department
Nursing Department records
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 17 · Series · [195?]-1983
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

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 .

Toronto General Hospital. Nursing Department
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 28 · Series · 1987
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Series consists of a formal proposal by the TGH Chief Operating Officer, Mrs. W. Plachta, and submitted to the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Toronto District Health Council. The proposal seeks to have the TGH designated as a regional Level 1 trauma centre, and includes an overview of TGH facilities, services and resources relevant to the provision of trauma care

Toronto General Hospital. Office of the Chief Operating Officer
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
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 20 · Series · 1961-1979
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Series consists of miscellaneous correspondence and general administration files created, collected and maintained by the Supervisor, In-Patient Accounts. Records include correspondence with staff and Hospital administrators, memoranda of policy directives and procedures, patient account files, files re: the management of hospital insurance programs (Blue Cross, OHIP), job descriptions and personnel files, files re: management of the Hospital cafeterias, files re: air ambulance service, information re: rates for Hospital services, and budget preparation files.

CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 3 · Series · 1938-1972
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Series consists of correspondence between the Assistant Superintendent, Medical and the Medical Advisory Board concerning the medical management of the Hospital; the permanent records of TGH intern staff, including performance appraisals; and applications for positions on the TGH intern staff.

The series includes five sub-series:

3.1 Memoranda Re; Medical Procedures
3.2 Correspondence with Medical Advisory Board
3.3 Interns’ Records
3.4 Applications for Internships
3.5 Toronto General Hospital Disaster Plans

Toronto General Hospital. Office of the Assistant Superintendent, Medical
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 5 · Series · 1934-1946
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Series consists of minutes of meetings of the Supervising Committee, annual reports, collected research papers published by Institute staff and consultants, and plans and proposals for the expansion of the Institute.

Related material, including correspondence between the TGH Superintendent and the Director of the OIR, financial statements, patient records, and records documenting the equipment of the Institute and the purchase of radium are located in the Superintendent’s correspondence and general administration files for 1930ff. (TG 2.4 ff.)

The series includes four sub-series:

5.1 Minutes of Supervising Committee
5.2 Annual Reports
5.3 Collected Research Papers
5.4 Plans for Expansion

Toronto General Hospital. Ontario Institute of Radiotherapy
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 22-TG 22.3 · Subseries · 1958
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of various materials relating to the ceremonies opening the new TGH Neurosurgical Unit in the Center Block Building (Norman Urquhart Wing) November 8, 1958. File 22.3.1 contains a commemorative booklet edited by Dr. T.P. Morley containing a transcription of speeches; a bibliography of the papers of Dr. K.G. McKenzie; and a description of the Unit, illustrated by drawings. File 22.3.2 contains a sound recording (audio-cassette tape) of speeches delivered during the opening ceremonies, as recorded by Dr. R. Tasker: duration of the recording is approximately 55 minutes. File 22.3.3 contains a program of the opening ceremonies.

CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 4-4.9 · Subseries · 1967-1984
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

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

Minutes for 1968 are missing.

Toronto General Hospital. Operating Room Committee
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 2-2.24 · Subseries · [196-?]-1979
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

Sub-series consists of charts outlining the administrative structure of the Toronto General Hospital. Sub-series contains one file:

2.24.1 Organization Charts

Toronto General Hospital. Office of the President
Patient records
CA ON00343 TG fonds-TG 15-TG 15.2 · Subseries · 1913-1922
Part of Toronto General Hospital fonds

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.

Toronto General Hospital