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This sub-series consists of documents relating to the administration of the TWH Auxiliary including its constitution and bylaws and lists of executive officers.

This sub-series consists of annual reports comprising a statistical summary of hospital facilities and services, prepared for various agencies of the Ontario and federal governments, including the Ontario Department/ Ministry of Health, the Ontario Hospital Services Commission, and the Dominion Bureau of Statistics - Department of National Health and Welfare. These reports were mandated by law and used to determine the level of government funding allocated to the Hospital. This sub-series is missing the report for 1956.

This sub-series consists of annual reports issued by the TWH Board of Governors/ Board of Trustees. The Hospital's first annual report was issued for the year 1897, but the first report surviving in the archives is the 19th, for the year 1915. This sub-series is missing reports for 1897-1914, 1919-1922, 1926-1928, 1930-1939, 1941-1943, 1948, 1959, and 1963. Reports for 1929, 1947, and 1949-1954 exist only in draft, typescript form and are incomplete.

Reports typically contain some or all of the following: brief reports by the chairman of the Board and the Superintendent/ General Superintendent/ Executive Director/ President; reports by the chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee, various medical departments, and the Director of the School of Nursing; summary financial records; lists of members of the Board, administrative staff, medical staff, and the Medical Advisory Committee; photographs of hospital buildings, facilities and staff.

This sub-series consists of annual reports issued by Grace Hospital and its predecessor, the Toronto Homeopathic Hospital. The report for the year 1899 is missing, and reports for 1900 and 1901 exist only in the form of incomplete manuscript notes. No reports after 1903 have survived.

This sub-series consists of annual reports prepared by the TWH/Atkinson School of Nursing and submitted to:

i. Ontario Department of Health. Inspector of Training Schools - Nurse Registration Branch. "Training School Report" (1931-38)
ii. Ontario Department of Health. Nurse Registration Branch. "School of Nursing Report" (1939-47)
iii. Ontario Department of Health. Director, Division of Nurses Registration. (1948-51)
iv. Ontario Department of Health. Director, Nursing Branch. (1952-63)
v. Director, College of Nurses of Ontario. (1964-73)
Calendar-year reports were prepared 1931-1959, and September-August reports 1960-1973. The sub-series is missing reports for 1946 and September 1970-August 1971.

Reports include names, education and professional history, and professional responsibilities of School of Nursing administrators, faculty and staff; a statistical summary of services provided by the Hospital (number of beds, patients, and medical procedures performed); information about the School's facilities, students (number, entrance requirements, education and training duties), curriculum, and affiliation with other educational and healthcare institutions.

This sub-series consists of consolidated and monthly financial statements prepared for the Toronto Western Hospital Department of Finance by Eddis & Associates, Chartered Accountants. These statements and reports were distributed to members of the Board of Directors.

This sub-series consists of photographic portraits of individual members of the TWH Board of Governors/ Board of Trustees. Files for Board members Harry N. Bawden, George M. Black Jr., William E. Coutts, W.C. Thornton Cran, and J.R. Jenkins also contain correspondence, biographical data and other documents relating to their service at the TWH.

This sub-series consists of documents relating to correspondence sent and received by the TWH Auxiliary.

This sub-series consists of personnel records for “current” employees of the TWH ca. 1919-1939.

This sub-series consists of personnel records for ex-employees of the TWH who began and left the service of the Hospital between ca. 1919 and ca. 1939.

This sub-series consists miscellaneous fundraising materials created for the TWH Expansion Programme of 1939.

This sub-series consists of financial records created by or for the Auxiliary, including account books, Treasurer's papers and reports, auditors' reports, bank records and annual financial statements. Financial records of the Auxiliary Gift Shop are maintained separately in sub-series 6-3.

This sub-series consists of miscellaneous general administrative files created or maintained by the TWH/Atkinson School of Nursing and pertaining to the day-to-day operation of the School. There are gaps in the records for some of the files:
• Graduation programs (File TW 5-3-3) are missing for 1920-27, 1929-31, 1933-36, 1938, 1941, 1943, 1950, 1953-58, 1960.
• File 5-33-22 only contains minutes of the Charting Committee from 1949, 1952, 1959, 1961, 1965, and 1967.
• Programs for “Whites in Review” (File TW 5-3-24) are missing for 1958, 1960, and 1962-66.

File TW 5-3-4 includes an address to convocation by Robertson Davies from 1965. File TW 5-3-25 contains the publications Half a Century of Nursing at the TWH [1948?] and The Nurses Alumnae Association of the TWH: Diamond Jubilee 1898-1988 [1988]. Both pamphlets contain histories of the TWH and Grace Hospital Schools of Nursing

This sub-series consists of miscellaneous files created or maintained by the Office of the Superintendent/ General Superintendent/ Executive Director in the day-to-day operation of the Hospital. File TW 2-1-23 includes some correspondence from patients as well as an 8-page list, compiled in 1968, of local and international heart transplant recipients and the names of the organ donors.

Sub-series consists of miscellaneous general administrative files created and maintained by the TWH Board of Governors/ Board of Trustees. File 1-2-2 includes draft copies of the General By-Laws of the Governors of the Toronto Western Hospital (1914), annotated by either the Board or the medical staff. File 1-2-4 includes correspondence with solicitors and contractors; leases and memoranda of agreement; offers of purchase; tax assessments; statements of assets and liabilities in real property; summary list of contracts for construction and renovation of hospital buildings; insurance policies; and "Notes of Inspection" (1907) by Ontario Department of Hospitals and Charities. File 1-2-10 includes a draft copy of the agreement of affiliation with the University and a copy of the minutes of the November 25, 1913 meeting of the TWH Board.

This sub-series consists of miscellaneous general administrative files created or maintained by the TWH medical staff including the subscription agreement to establish the TWH by the twelve founding physicians and documents regarding regulations, rights and duties of medical staff, minutes, membership lists, correspondence and reports. File TW 3-1-14 contains various documents relating to the controversy surrounding the TWH Act of Incorporation (1912) and Amendment (1914) to allow for affiliation with the University of Toronto. File TW 3-1-16 includes curriculum vitae for Chester R. McLean, Frederick W. Jaffe, Hans Sepp, Peter G. Rowsell, John S. Crawford, Abraham Rapoport, Dorothy Ley, L.R. Harnick, Burton C. Prior, H. Erik Meema, Sherman A. Piper, John H. Gardiner, and Bernard G. Awerbuck.

This sub-series consists of records created and maintained by the Auxiliary Gift Shop Committee including minutes, financial statements, procedures manuals and reports. File TW 6-3-4 includes a history of the Gift Shop, 1947-1958.

This series consists of records created or maintained by the Grace Hospital Training School for Nurses including a register of students and graduates, reports, handbooks, portraits of school administrators, curriculum, graduation exercises and speeches.

This sub-series consists of various documents and publications describing the history of the TWH Auxiliary from 1897-1987. File TW 6-10-3 includes a pamphlet marking the Auxiliary's 90th anniversary and containing a history of the Auxiliary. The file also contains a typescript draft with annotations of the historical article contained in the pamphlet, and a commemorative 90th anniversary bookmark.

This sub-series consists of various documents, created between 1903 and 1985, describing the history of Grace Hospital and/or Toronto Homeopathic Hospital, 1886-1936.