Comprises 173 leaves and 10 items.

Correspondence and related papers about nursing in Nigeria and the Cameroons, the Gold Coast (Ghana), Sierra Leone and The Gambia. With memoranda, leaflets and questionnaires about conditions of service in these territories. Correspondents include nurses, medical departments and the Colonial Office (H. J. Read, Walter D. Ellis, Alex Fiddian, J. E. W. Flood, F. R. Fairclough, John A. Calder, A. G. H. Smart, C. Strachey, J. E. King, W. H. Hart).

Related papers include:

(fols. 22-29) minutes of a meeting between the Colonial Office and the Overseas Nursing Association, held to discuss the "conditions of service of nursing sisters in West Africa", 7 Apr. 1927, with related letter and memorandum.

(item 1) The Gold Coast, booklet, ?1929

(item 2) Passage and Leave Rules for European Officers in West Africa, Colonial Office, African (West) Number 1140, Jul. 1931

(fol. 77) notes made following a visit to the Overseas Nursing Association by Dr. Cicely Williams (working in the Gold Coast), Nov. 1932

(item 3) The Colonial Service. Information for the use of Candidates for Appointments on the West African Nursing Staff, Colonial Office, African (West) Number 692, 24th Edition, Aug. 1937

(items 4-5) Leave and Passage Regulations for European Officers in West Africa, Colonial Office, African (West) Number 1140, 3rd Edition, Jul. 1938 (two copies)

(item 6) The life of a West African Cocoa Farmer by A son of one of them, British Commonwealth Leaflet, Series C: "How the other half lives", Number 2, ?1943

(item 7) Mary Kingsley (1862-1900), British Commonwealth Leaflet, Series A: "Pioneers who served", Number 1, ?1945

(fols. 101-114) "Training of Hospital Nurses on the Gold Coast", copy memorandum by J. Balfour Kirk (Director of Medical Services), 15 Feb. 1943 (two copies), with covering letter from the Colonial Office and reply from the Overseas Nursing Association, Apr. 1944

(item 8) "Medical facilities in Sierra Leone with particular reference to the prospects of employment for Nurses qualified for inclusion in the UK State Register", memorandum by a committee of the Sierra Leone Student Union (UK), Aug. 1951

(items 9-10) two issues of the Daily Graphic newspaper containing articles about the asylum in Accra, Ghana, 5 and 6 Feb. 1957

(fols. 148-149) summary report by Miss Hale, H. V. Tutor, Battersea, on her visit to The Gambia under the World Health Organisation, 26 Jul.-27 Aug. 1956

(fol. 173) Physical Therapy in Hansen's Disease in Eastern Nigeria, article by Hugh MacLean reprinted from Rehabilitation Literature, Oct. 1963