MANUSCRIPTS. [A hand-written book of minutes for meetings of the 'Advisory Medical Council' of the South London Hospital for Women. N.p.: July 1930-March 1939.] 241pp., manuscript, folio (322 x 202mm.) 241pp. in legible hands relating to correspondence, regulations, appointments and internal issues relating to the South London Hospital for Women, numerous mounted memoranda and typed and hand-written letters loosely inserted. (Occasional minor creasing.) Original cloth boards (lacking spine, worn). Note: the 'South London Hospital for Women' was established in 1912 by Maud Chadburn and Eleanor Davies-Colley. Inspired by the suffragettes they believed that women should have the option of being treated by their all-female staff, but also that it would serve as a training college for female medical staff. - And a further eight related volumes (including manuscript volumes for the minutes of meetings of the 'Wimbledon College Hospital' for the years 1894, 1901, 1907, 1908 and for 'Wimbledon Hospital' in 1915) (9).