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General Register Office Circulars: Various subjects Amendment regulations Notifications...
Catalogue reference: RG 41/54
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This record is about the General Register Office Circulars: Various subjects Amendment regulations Notifications... dating from 1959 in the series General Register Office: Circulars. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- RG 41/54
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1959
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Description (What the record is about)
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General Register Office Circulars:
- Various subjects Amendment regulations Notifications to Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and to National Assistance Board Comparison of notices of marriage Forms 310 Handbook for Registration Officers Amendments to the Handbook for Registration Officers (Former reference: GRO NO 1).
- Revised procedure for the issue and control of registration stock (Former reference: GRO NO 2).
- Various subjects The Legitimacy Act 1959 Deaths of children in the care of foster parents Deaths of opticians Handbook for Registration Officers Amendments to the Handbook for Registration Officers (Former reference: GRO NO 3).
- Various subjects The Legitimacy Act 1959 Marriages under foreign local law between two British subjects Reference of deaths to Coroners Stores, forms, etc. Handbook for Registration Officers Amendments to the Handbook for Registration Officers (Former reference: GRO NO 4).
- Representation of the People Acts: 1959 register (Former reference: GRO GEN NO 1).
- Hospital in-patient enquiry (Former reference: GRO GEN NO 2).
- Mental health statistics (Former reference: GRO GEN NO 3).
- Aids to cancer follow up (Former reference: GRO GEN NO 4).
- Population estimates 1959: housing development (Former reference: GRO GEN NO 5).
- Mental health statistics (Former reference: GRO GEN NO 6).
- Salaries of registration officers (Former reference: GRO GEN NO 7).
- National cancer registration (Former reference: GRO GEN NO 8).
- Mental health statistics (Former reference: GRO GEN NO 9).
- Hospital in-patient enquiry (Former reference: GRO GEN NO 10).
- Infectious and other notifiable diseases: weekly return (Former reference: GRO MOH NO 1).
- Annual reports of Medical Officers of Health: 1958 vital statistics (Former reference: GRO MOH NO 2).
- Infectious and other notifiable diseases: quarterly return (Former reference: GRO MOH NO 3).
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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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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3543011/
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RG 41
General Register Office: Circulars
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