Fonds consists of records relating to Francis Chisholm's educational and professional activities as a minister while employed at Chedoke Hospital (formerly Mountain Sanatorium) from 1964-1991, as well as a small amount of material pertaining to Chisholms services at the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital as well as the Hamilton General Hospital from 1988-2000. Included is brochures, correspondence, invitations, leaflets, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, reports, sermon notes, a business card, a certificate, and a proposal document. Records cover such topics as pastoral care and services, chapel inductions and operations, pastoral training, and includes material related to the topic of spiritual care for patients afflicted with tuberculosis.

File consists of collected Hamilton Spectator newspaper clippings relating to information on TB and the impacts of TB. Included is a newspaper clipping with advice on overcoming stigma surrounding TB; a newspaper clipping documenting a case of TB from a student at McKay Hall at McMaster University; a newspaper clipping documenting TB cases and deaths in the Hamilton-Wentworth region in 1989; a newspaper clipping documenting a dispute on treatment for TB; a newspaper clipping with an obituary of Margaret Hastings who died of TB in 2002; a newspaper clipping from 1989 documenting an opinion piece on Hamilton and Canadas involvement with relocating and treating Inuit; a newspaper clipping documenting the creation and reveal of an Inuit Memorial for those who died from TB; and a newspaper clipping recalling a Christmas event for Inuit TB patients in 1958.