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Local Government Board, and Ministry of Health, Health Divisions: Public Health and...

Catalogue reference: MH 48

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MH 48

This series contains files originating for the most part in the Local Government Board and sometimes continued in the Ministry of Health, containing correspondence with local authorities, joint hospital boards and committees, asylum boards and...

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Reference

MH 48

Title
Local Government Board, and Ministry of Health, Health Divisions: Public Health and Poor Law Services, Local Authority Correspondence (Series I)
Date

1868-1935

Description

This series contains files originating for the most part in the Local Government Board and sometimes continued in the Ministry of Health, containing correspondence with local authorities, joint hospital boards and committees, asylum boards and port sanitary (later port health) authorities relating to administrative and medical aspects of public health, including poor law medical services.

Among the subjects covered are the appointment of medical officers of health and inspectors of nuisances; sanatoria; isolation hospitals; infectious and venereal diseases (otherwise in MH 23); maternity and child welfare; and poor law infirmaries. Most files cover the period 1901 to 1919.

Arrangement
Arrangement

The files are arranged alphabetically by local authority within the various categories of authority.

Related material

Further records of joint hospital boards are in MH 67

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Local Government Board, 1871-1919
  • Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
Physical description

523 file(s)

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10891/

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Local Government Board, and Ministry of Health, Health Divisions: Public Health and Poor Law Services, Local Authority Correspondence (Series I)