Christie Hospital: miscellaneous documents and records

Scope and Content

1. Journal offprints on various subjects of papers by staff of the Paterson Laboratories/ Christie Hospital, 1970-1971.

2. Booklet: Bulgin Radio products” by A.F. Bulgin & Co. Ltd, Barking, Essex (undated).

3. File: “NRL”, containing correspondence and other material relating to National Radium Containers, including reports from and correspondence with the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington in Middlesex., 1934-1947.

4. Envelope containing a programme for a Song Recital at King’s Hall, Belle Vue, Manchester on 4th December 1947 in aid of research at Christie Hospital; letter from Whitfields Bedsteads Ltd, Birmingham, offering to give a quote for Lawson Tait Ward Bedsteads for the new hospital extension, 1947; memorandum on the subject of purchasing tinned carrots, 1951; trade literature for Jenner hospital bedsteads, undated; programme for a concert by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 26th May, 1948, in aid of Christie Hospital.

5. Envelope: “Rep.1: Reprints”, containing journal reprints relating to Christie Hospital, 1938-1945.

6. Envelope: “Rad. 2”, containing detailed accounts of supplies to the Radium Department at Manchester Royal Infirmary, including the fitting-out of the new laboratory, 1917-191 8.

7. Envelope: “Rad. 4”, containing the Certificate of the Incorporation for the Holt Radium Institute, originally called the Manchester and District Radium Institute, 12th December 1935.

8. Envelope: “Med 1”, containing material relating to the Association of Medical Records Officers, namely regulations, syllabus and specimen papers, examination papers for associateship, letters re 1950 exams between Elsie Royle (Records Officer) and A.H. Keates (Secretary), and handwritten notes on medical records. 1949-1950.

9. Envelope: “Rad. 3”, containing material relating to the Manchester and District Radium Institute, namely annual returns, giving particulars of directors: 1932 (2 copies) and 1933 (1 copy), and a copy of an agreement between the Institute and Lancashire County Council regarding the treatment of patients sent under the authorization of the County Council, 1933.

10. Typed notes: “The Faculty of Radiologists: The Practice of Radiotherapy in War Time” by B. Windeyer, N. Finzi et al, 1940.

11. Volume: untitled but containing a handwritten alphabetical index of the contents of an unidentified volume or set of records. The index terms cover all aspects of the operation of the hospital. Undated.

12. Envelope: “GUI 2”, containing a brochure entitled “Paterson Laboratories”, undated (2 copies).