Comprises 147 leaves and 3 items.

(fols. 2-14) "colonial hospitals: supply of nurses": lists of territories and hospitals (with numbers of beds, nurses and servants) and correspondence between the Colonial Nursing Association (Mabel W. Piggott) and the Colonial Office (Arthur E. Collins, H. J. Read), 1898-1899

(fols. 15-39) Wesley Deaconess Order: correspondence between the Wesley Deaconess College in Ilkley, Yorkshire (Rev. T. Bowman Stephenson, Sister Dora Stephenson), the Colonial Office (Reginald Antrobus) and the Colonial Nursing Association (Miss M. E. Dalrymple Hay) about supplying trained nurses for West Africa, Apr.-Jul. 1903

(fols. 40-56) "Gibraltar Hospital: Lock Wing": correspondence between the Colonial Nursing Association (Mabel W. Piggott, Rosalind Paget), Colonial Secretary of Gibraltar (Sir Henry M. Jackson) and Crown Agents for the Colonies about the appointment of a lady superintendent, Apr.-Jun. 1901

(items 1-2) Gold Coast: two leaflets entitled Information Regarding the Gold Coast Medical Service, Colonial Office, Mar. 1894, and Rules for the Guidance of the Matron and Nursing Sisters in the Colonial Hospital Accra by G. B. Haddon-Smith, Acting Colonial Secretary, Jun. 1897

(fol. 57, item 3) Northern Nigeria: leaflet entitled Hints to Officers Selected for Service in Northern Nigeria, Jul. 1901

(fols. 58-98) "Sierra Leone: Nursing Home in Freetown": copies of reports from the governor (Sir Charles A. King-Harman), the medical superintendent (William T. Prout) and nursing and medical staff, Nov. 1900-Jan. 1903, with covering letter from the Colonial Office (Reginald Antrobus) to the Colonial Nursing Association, Mar. 1903

(fols. 99-147) "West Africa: furnished quarters, uniform, outfit, salary and allowances, statistics": correspondence (mainly discussing nurses' uniforms) between the Colonial Nursing Association (Mabel W. Piggott) and the Colonial Office (Reginald Antrobus). With copies of a despatch from Joseph Chamberlain to "Officers Administering the Government of Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Lagos, Southern Nigeria [and] Northern Nigeria" and their replies, Jul. 1899-Dec. 1902