Comprises 117 leaves and 6 items.

Correspondence, memoranda, press cuttings and related papers relating to nursing in the Straits Settlements. Correspondence is chiefly with the Colonial Office (H. Beckett, Walter D. Ellis, H. R. Cowell) and includes copies of their correspondence with the Women Sanitary Inspectors' and Health Visitors' Association in London (Hilda M. Gray). Other correspondents include:

The papers include:

(fols. 2-5) account by a nurse of a "round trip Penang to Japan", ?1913

(fols. 82-83) notes made following a visit to the Overseas Nursing Association by Miss Petrie (Staff Nurse in Shanghai), 16 Mar. 1939

(item 2) rules and regulations of Bangkok Nursing Home, 1960

(item 6) brochure about Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore, 1960

(fols. 88-92) circular letter from the War Office about the need for nursing officers for the Civil Affairs Staff "of certain Far Eastern territories, when they are liberated from Japanese occupation" and calling for applications, Jul. 1945