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Records of Commissions and Committees
Catalogue reference: Division within MH
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Division within MH
Records of Commissions and Committees relating to investigations into a variety of health, public health and welfare issues.Comprises: Royal Commission on the Health of Towns, 1843-1845, MH 7War Refugees Committee, 1914-1919, MH 8Various...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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Division within MH
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of Commissions and Committees
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Date (When the record was created)
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1843-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of Commissions and Committees relating to investigations into a variety of health, public health and welfare issues.
Comprises:
- Royal Commission on the Health of Towns, 1843-1845, MH 7
- War Refugees Committee, 1914-1919, MH 8
- Various committees, 1916-1958, MH 71
- Committee of Inquiry into the Pharmaceutical Industry (Sainsbury Committee) 1965-1967, MH 104
- Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency (Percy Commission), 1954-1957, MH 121
- Committee of Experts on Public Health, MH 141
- Committee on the Problem of Noise (Wilson Committee), 1960-1963, MH 171
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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6 series
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Refugees
- Mental illness
- Medicine
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C628/
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