Scope and Content The records of the Department of Development and Public Affairs span 1876 to 1998. The bulk of the records date from the mid-1940s to the 1990s. Department of Development records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, pamphlets and publications, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, and a donor's book, recording the names of individuals who underwrote various hospital ward expenses from 1925-1944. A significant portion of the records document the major campaigns of the hospital, as well...