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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...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MH 48
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Title (The name of the record)
- Local Government Board, and Ministry of Health, Health Divisions: Public Health and Poor Law Services, Local Authority Correspondence (Series I)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1868-1935
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The files are arranged alphabetically by local authority within the various categories of authority.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Further records of joint hospital boards are in MH 67
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Local Government Board, 1871-1919
- Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 523 file(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10891/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MH
Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Health and successors, Local Government...
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Local Government Board, and Ministry of Health, Health Divisions: Public Health and Poor Law Services, Local Authority Correspondence (Series I)