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General Register Office: Smallpox Vaccination Returns
Catalogue reference: RG 56
What's it about?
RG 56
This series contains smallpox vaccination returns for the years 1898-1921 and 1938-1941. These smallpox returns contain statistical information not likely to be found in any such detail elsewhere. These registers do not contain personal information.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RG 56
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Smallpox Vaccination Returns
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Date (When the record was created)
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1898-1941
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains smallpox vaccination returns for the years 1898-1921 and 1938-1941. These smallpox returns contain statistical information not likely to be found in any such detail elsewhere.
These registers do not contain personal information.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For correspondence and papers relating to population and medical statistics see also MH 19
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- General Register Office, 1836-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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25 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Medical statistics were analysed in the Registrar General's Quarterly Return, the Annual Statistical Review of England and Wales and Decennial Supplements, which were all printed.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13381/
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General Register Office: Smallpox Vaccination Returns
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