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Series consists of minutes from the Ambulatory Care Committee and its various subcommittees and/or related committees. Series also includes copies of presentations given to the Committee by various departments within the hospital.

File 7.5.1 includes minutes from the Community Culture Conscious Subcommittee and the House Staff-Liaison Committee. File 7.5.2 includes minutes from the Community Services Subcommittee. File 7.5.3 includes minutes from the Emergency Subcommittee. File 7.5.4 includes minutes from the Executive Committee of the Medical Advisory Board. File 7.5.5 includes minutes from the Community Service Subcommittee. File 7.5.6 includes minutes from the Community Services Subcommittee.

The first Annual General Meeting for the University Health Network occurred on September 15th, 1999. Series includes the contents of a binder labeled “Annual General Meeting Minutes Jun 1947-2005”. This binder included minutes of the University Health Network’s Annual General Meetings (1999-2005) as well as the minutes of the Annual Meetings of the Subscribers of its predecessor corporations The Toronto Hospital (1987-1998) and the Toronto General Hospital (1947-1986). The original purpose of these meetings was to elect Trustees. The annual meeting was extended to several meetings in 1947 and 1949 due to a lack of nominations. Minutes from September 17, 1997 are missing. Most minutes are signed originals.

Series consists of minutes, correspondence, historical records and photographs created or collected by the Archives and Historical Committee. Material from the Department of Medical Photography and files from the Public Relations Photo and Slide Library are interspersed within these files. Some of this may be due to the dual roles of Committee members, but in the case of files 2.8.49 to 2.8.57 they appear to be files borrowed by the Chair of the Committee. No attempt has been made to rearrange these files according to their original provenance.

File 2.8.1 includes 2 photographs of Nuclear Cardiology from the early 1980s.

File 2.8.2 contains a photograph of a construction site at TGH in July 1977 and a patient handbook from TGH from [198-?].

Files 2.8.10 to 2.8.13 were originally kept in one binder and probably belonged to Peter Edwards, who was at one point Chairman of the Historical Committee. File names are taken from the divider titles.

File 2.8.16 includes a guide for the della Robia style plaques which hung in the Outpatient Clinical in the Mulock/Larkin Wing of the Toronto General Hospital.

File 2.8.30 includes copies of photographs from the 1940s that were made in 1978.

Series consists of photographs documenting the destruction of the TGH Bell Wing and the construction of the Clinical Services Building. These photographs were taken by Dr. Cowan from his offices across the street at Cancer Care Ontario (620 University Avenue, Toronto, 15th and 13th floors) from May 2001 to July 2003, in order to document the event. Eight of these pictures were used by UHN’s Public Affairs Department at the official opening of the Clinical Services Building. Photographs had been arranged by Dr. Cowan in a binder entitled <i>Toronto General Hospital Pictures Before & After</i> and divided by film number and date. These divisions are reflected in the file titles.

Series consists of annual lists of appointments to the TGH medical staff; TGH annual reports; minutes of meetings of the Board and its subcommittees; correspondence; lists of members of the Board; materials relating to special events and ceremonies at the TGH; legislative acts and by-laws pertaining to the TGH; visitors registers; and documents pertaining to the management of property owned by and/ or endowed to the TGH. The series includes ten sub-series:

TG 1.1 Medical Staff Appointments
TG 1.2 Annual Reports
TG 1.3 Minutes
TG 1.4 Correspondence
TG 1.5 Membership Lists
TG 1.6 Special Events and Ceremonies
TG 1.7 Acts and By-Laws
TG 1.8 Visitors Registers
TG 1.9 Properties and Endowment
TG 1.10 Executive Committee records

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 incoming and outgoing correspondence accumulated by William Louth who served as TTH Executive Vice-President from 1986 to1992. Most files relate to the TGH/TWH Merger.

Series consists of correspondence and position papers regarding Princess Margaret Hospital’s relocation and the merger between Toronto General Hospital and Toronto Western Hospital. The material related to the Princess Margaret Hospital relocation was compiled while Dr. Cowan was Chair of the Oncology Coordinating Council at the University of Toronto. The material related to the TGH-TWH merger is from Dr. Cowan’s time as Head of the Department of Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center. Opinions on the proposed merger had been requested of the Chairs of Clinical Departments in the Faculty of Medicine by the Dean of Medicine, University of Toronto in 1985. Each head of a hospital’s Department of Medicine were sent copies.

Dr. Cowan organized these files with both names and numbers. File titles retain Dr. Cowan’s original titles and his file numbers are included at the end of the file titles in brackets. Arrangement is according to Dr. Cowan’s original numbering. There were two different files numbered 23. Files 1-21 and 37 were not donated to the Archives.

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 various materials created and maintained by the Department of Nutrition Services including a certificate of completion from the pupil dietitian course (1918), newsletters, Christmas dinner menus, course outlines from the Dietetic Internship Program, and programs from graduation and retirement dinners.

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 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

Series consists of financial statements for various TGH departments which were accumulated by TTH Finance 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 bound minutes of the Joint Hospital/ University Relations Committee.

Series consists of bound minutes from the Medical Advisory Board/Committee of the Toronto General Hospital, which were kept in the office of the Department of Medical-Legal Affairs of The Toronto Hospital after the merger between the Toronto Western and Toronto General Hospitals.

Minutes of the Medical Advisory Board from its inception in 1876 to 1915 have not been transferred to the Archives and are considered missing.

Series consists of minutes of meetings of MAB standing committees, including related correspondence, reports and other materials distributed and considered at meetings. The series includes 17 sub-series:

4.1 Advisory Committee on Nursing and Technical Procedures records
4.2 Emergency Department Committee records
4.3 Infections Committee records
4.4 Medical Audit Committee records
4.5 Medical Education Committee records
4.6 Respiratory Care Unit Committee records
4.7 Library Committee records
4.8 Medical Records Committee records
4.9 Operating Room Committee records
4.10 Research Committee records
4.11 Utilization Committee records
4.12 Medical Engineering Committee records
4.13 Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee records
4.14 Fact-Finding Committee re: Nursing Shortage records
4.15 Minutes
4.16 Membership
4.17 Reports and Proposals

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

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 minutes of meetings and various versions of the Group’s terms of reference.