Overhead view of hospital staff as they conduct surgery in an operating room.

Bio/historical note: Designed by Webster and Gilbert, architects, and built between 1948 and 1955 by Smith Bros. and Wilson, contractors, at a cost of $7,000,000.00, the 6-storey, 7-wing University Hospital was officially opened by Bentley, T.J., Saskatchewan Minister of Health on May 1955. The name was officially changed to Royal University Hospital 23rd May 1990.

Fonds consists of records relating to the life and medical career of J. P. Szlazak. Fonds contains case reports and photographs of surgeries performed when Szlazak was at Rooksdown House; an autobiographical account of Szlazak's early years; and a Golden Jubilee issues of the "Guinea Pig" [journal].