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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.

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.

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.

Series consists of the MSA articles of agreement (July 1 1966, with amendments created in 1967 and 1968 tipped in) containing the signatures of the original members of the Association; correspondence of the President/Executive Director of the MSA, chiefly with officials representing similar associations in other Canadian hospitals; and a file of background papers by Dr. T.P. Morley outlining the history and development of the MSA 1963-1968.

Series consists of the Department’s annual reports for the years 1985-1986 and 1986-1987, detailing the Department’s clinical and research activities.

Series consists of correspondence, offers to lease various properties, and architectural drawings associated with the Hospital’s plans to establish a detoxification centre.

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 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.

Series consists of statistical reports pertaining to admissions and discharges, births and deaths, operations and anaesthetics at the TGH; and patient records created in various Hospital departments and maintained and organized by the Medical Records Department.

The series includes two sub-series:

15.1 Statistical reports
15.2 Patient records

Sub-series consists of annual statistics pertaining to admissions and discharges, births and deaths, operations and anaesthetics at the TGH. Admission and discharge statistics are classified by hospital building and by patients’ age, place or residence and religion.

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 .

Series consists of patient registers containing patient names and vital statistics, notations on treatments performed or recommended, diagnoses, and prognosis/follow-up recommendations.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.