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Local Government Board and predecessors and successor: General Policy and Procedure,...
Catalogue reference: HLG 46
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HLG 46
This series contains files created by the General Board of Health, the Local Government Act Office of the Home Office and Local Government Board, to which have been added a few papers of the Ministry of Health; and volumes of printed...
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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HLG 46
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Title (The name of the record)
- Local Government Board and predecessors and successor: General Policy and Procedure, 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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This series contains files created by the General Board of Health, the Local Government Act Office of the Home Office and Local Government Board, to which have been added a few papers of the Ministry of Health; and volumes of printed correspondence of the Board compiled in the Ministry of Health for reference purposes. The registration system used for the files is not contemporary, but was created at a later date in the Ministry of Health and retained in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
The files cover a wide range of functions relating to local authority administration, including model byelaws, loan sanctions, interest rates, burial grounds, coast protection etc.
The series also includes files from various blocks of the Ministry of Health 90,000 and 92,000 series (HLG 101).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also HLG 110
Related local authority files are in HLG 1
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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
- Home Office, 1782-1782
- 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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135 file(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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This series consists of papers instituted prior to 1919 by the Local Government Board and its predecessors covering a period from 1853-1927. The few papers subsequent to 1919 which are included are continuations of papers commenced before that date.
As in the case of the local authority files in Series H.L.G. 1 to which these files relate, the "O" has been specially included to denote "old papers".
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8741/
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