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Ministry of Health and predecessors: General Instruments and Consents Relating to...
Catalogue reference: HLG 15
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HLG 15
Instruments and consents to the financial transactions, loans, etc., of local authorities made by the General Board of Health, the Local Government Act Office of the Home Office the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health under various...
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HLG 15
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Health and predecessors: General Instruments and Consents Relating to Financial Transactions
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Date (When the record was created)
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1850-1925
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Description (What the record is about)
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Instruments and consents to the financial transactions, loans, etc., of local authorities made by the General Board of Health, the Local Government Act Office of the Home Office the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health under various statutes, including the Public Health Act 1875, the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act 1899, Small Holdings and Allotment Act 1908, Education Acts and Housing Acts 1890-1924, for each of which categories there are separate volumes. These volumes known formerly as Sanction Books have been retained in their entirety until 1871, but thereafter only a few sample volumes have been kept.
The acts quoted in this series include:-
Burial Act, 1900
Housing for the Working Classes Acts, 1890, 1901 1903 and 1909
Housing Acts 1919, 1923, 1925, 1930 and 1936
Local Government Acts, 1888 and 1889
Public Health Act, 1907
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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(for corporate lands) HLG 18
Related files of correspondence may be found in HLG 1 HLG 2
Further series of consents are in:
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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)
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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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19 volume(s)
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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The borrowing of money by sanitary authorities was sanctioned by the General Board of Health under the Public Health Act, 1848 up to September, 1858 when the Secretary of State took over the duty of issuing sanctions under the Local Government Act, 1858. Those duties were transferred to the Local Government Board in 1871. The board and its successors became the sanctioning authority to the borrowing of money under numerous acts.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8710/
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