Correspondence, memoranda and press cuttings concerned mainly with the colonial hospitals at Port of Spain and San Fernando. Correspondence is chiefly with Colonial Office (H. J. Read, H. R. Cowell, H. Beckett, Henry Moore, P. Rogers, F. R. Fairclough) but there are also letters from the Surgeon General (K. S. Wise), the Colonial Secretary (A. W. Seymour) and copy despatches from governors (H. A. Byatt, A. C. Hollis, Hubert Young).

The file also includes:

(fol. 61) photograph showing presentation being made to Mrs. [Morris], late Sister Tutor, by nurses of the colonial hospital, Port of Spain, Aug. 1941

(fols. 33-42, 92-94) press cuttings from The Trinidad Guardian and The Port of Spain Gazette about the Medical Reorganisation Committee, 1934-1935, 1944

(fol. 101) 'District Nursing in the West Indies', article by Olwen Lawton from The Nursing Mirror and Midwives' Journal, 19 Apr. 1957

(fol. 102) 'Mental Hospital in British West Indies', article about St. Ann's Mental Hospital by G. H. Drew from the The Nursing Mirror and Midwives' Journal, 16 Aug. 1957