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Ministry of Health and successors: Local Government Divisions and successors: Local...
Catalogue reference: HLG 51
What's it about?
HLG 51
Files of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Local Government and Planning and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. The series includes files relating to local authority administration, services and staff and includes some...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HLG 51
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Health and successors: Local Government Divisions and successors: Local Government Services, Registered Files (91,000 and other Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1904-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Local Government and Planning and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. The series includes files relating to local authority administration, services and staff and includes some correspondence of the Local Government Board. Some files relate to specific local authorities. General files in this series come from the 91,000 series of the Ministry. The series contents vary widely. Subjects covered include public cleansing, highways, private streets, local public buildings, coastal protection, green belts and markets and aerodromes. Minutes, papers and reports of the Hadow Committee on Local Government Officers and of the Local Government Manpower Committee, together with related correspondence, are also to be found in this series.
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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)
- 91,000 file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of the Environment, Local Government Divisions, 1970-1997
- Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Accountant General's Department, 1951-1970
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Local Government Division A, 1956-1970
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Local Government Finance Division, 1951-1970
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Local Government Organisation Division, 1951-1956
- Ministry of Local Government and Planning, Local Government Organisation Division, 1951-1951
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1255 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2003 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
from 1971 Department of the Environment
from 1967 Ministry of Housing and Local Government
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Subject index with series list.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8746/
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Ministry of Health and successors: Local Government Divisions and successors: Local Government Services, Registered Files (91,000 and other Series)
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