| Description Of Item | From the collection of Norman Walker. The inside covers of the original file list the items in it. Items 1-2, 3-35 and 36-60 were originally tied together with treasury tags. Although originally in one folder it has now been divided into three.
Folder 1 - National Health Insurance Commission (Scotland) Report on the Hospital and Nursing Services in Scotland, 1920 with a cutting on Sir Kingsley Wood and the new medical records, 1921; extract from The Times on voluntary hospitals by Basil E Mayhew, January 1920; description of each hospital in Scotland (items 3-25).
Folder 2 - Notes by William Jones re institutional accommodation in the special area selected by the Joint Committee for enquiry, September 1920 including tables of the number of beds in every hospital; Joint Reference on General Hospital Service - suggested outline of discussion, September 1920; memorandum by Professor Glaister on convalescent homes, September 1920; note by Dr Maxwell Ross on Infectious Diseases Hospital; notes on hospital administration in foreign countries and in the British Dominion, August 1920; note in regard to Poohouse Hospital Accommodation, October 1920; British Medical Association (Scottish Office) Hospitals Sub-Committee - report of a conference with representatives of staffs of voluntary hospitals, July 1920 with a printed report on the critical position of staffs in voluntary hospitals in England, June 1920; list of convalescent homes in Scotland, October 1920; outline of draft interim report, October 1920; correspondence on the proposed clause in the Miscellaneous Health Provisions Bill for Scotland giving local authorities the power to provide hospitals, October 1920; 'The Finance of Voluntary Hospitals', October 1920; General Hospitals Reference - notes by Chairman, November 1920; newspaper cutting on the future of hospitals; statement showing the relationship of tuberculosis to patients treated at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow January-September 1920; British Medical Association (Scottish Office) Memorandum to the Governing Bodies of Voluntary Hospitals in Scotland submitted on behald of the medical staff, December 1920.
Folder 3 - draft report of the Joint Committee on General Hospital Service, December 1920; report on hospital accommodation in poorhouses; tables of statistics on the number of beds, population and expenditure and notes on hospital administration in India, Malta, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy and Germany; Consultative Council on Medical and Allied Services General Hospital Reference - note of proposed heads of discussion, February 1921; newspaper cutting on Duke of York's plea for hospitals; British Medical Association (Scottish Office) agenda for conference of representatives of the honorary medical staffs of voluntary hospitals, February 1921 and resolutions passed; report of the Joint Committee on General Hospital Service; and notes on measure of present inadequacy of hospital provision, March 1921. |