| AdminHistory | From 1741, in accordance with Article 17 of Chapter II of the revised Standing Orders of the Hospital Corporation, a committee of five Directors was appointed annually to inspect the Hospital, in company with the physician and surgeon. The Court Minutes show that written reports were made annually, as in the stray survival H/C/6/1, but they appear not to have been entered in a book until October 1761, when monthly reports start, in H/C/6/2. The reports, signed by two or more of the committee, are normally brief, often very brief, though not without some variety and interest. From H/C/6/3 (1819 onwards) they tend to be rather more detailed (e.g. the celebration of Queen Victoria's coronation in July 1838 and the first inspection of the new Hospital at Victoria Park in June 1865). From 1940, when the inmates were evacuated to the country for the duration of the war, there is a gap until 1946. |