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Local Government Board and predecessors and successor: Local Authorities, Registered...
Catalogue reference: HLG 1
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HLG 1
Files of correspondence of the General Board of Health, the Local Government Act Office of the Home Office, and the Local Government Board with local authorities relating to many aspects of local government and environmental health services....
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HLG 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Local Government Board and predecessors and successor: Local Authorities, Registered Files (O Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1852-1927
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of correspondence of the General Board of Health, the Local Government Act Office of the Home Office, and the Local Government Board with local authorities relating to many aspects of local government and environmental health services. These files were arranged under local authorities, and re-registered under the Ministry of Health system as O (i.e.'old') files, identified by local authority number, subject number and file number. In some cases they continued in use in the Ministry of Health for some time after 1919. The papers in this series and in HLG 46 represent the main series of Local Government Board records for the period 1900 to 1919 which survived destruction through enemy action at Elstree in 1941 and fire at Brighton in 1944.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The records are arranged as follows:
County Councils: HLG 1/1-46/3, 1033-1211.
Metropolitan Boroughs: HLG 1/46/4-60/4.
Boroughs (including County Boroughs and Urban District Councils: HLG 1/60/5-830, 1212-1519, 1540-1543, 1545-1549, 1554-1561, 1564, 1567-1582.
Rural District Councils: HLG 1/831-1016, 1520-1532, 1544, 1550-1553, 1562-1563, 1565-1566.
Joint Committees, Boards etc: HLG 1/1017-1032, 1533-1539.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files after 1919 will be found in HLG 45
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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O file series
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- General Board of Health, 1848-1858
- Local Government Board, 1871-1919
- Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1582 box(es)
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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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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
- Local Government
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Subject number key with list
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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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The Local Government Board was set up in 1871. It took over from the Privy Council and the Secretary of State for Home Affairs some public health and local government functions, together with the powers and duties of the Poor Law Board. In 1919 the Board was dissolved, its functions passing to the new Ministry of Health.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8696/
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