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Catalogue reference: HLG 55
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HLG 55
General policy files of the Local Government Board, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government containing correspondence, legal opinions, proposals and reports, on the prevention, control, detection and measurement of...
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HLG 55
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Local Government Divisions and predecessors: Air Pollution and Smoke Abatement, Registered Files (91213 Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1914-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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General policy files of the Local Government Board, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government containing correspondence, legal opinions, proposals and reports, on the prevention, control, detection and measurement of air pollution. The series also includes minutes, papers, etc. of the Committee on Air Pollution, 1953 to 1954, the Clean Air Council from 1957, and the Air Pollution Research Interdepartmental Committee from 1955.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records concerning anti-air pollution measures are in BT 328
See also the Department of the Environment,
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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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91213 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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- Home Office, 1782-1782
- Local Government Board, 1871-1919
- Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970
- Ministry of Local Government and Planning, 1951-1951
- Ministry of Town and Country Planning, 1943-1951
- Ministry of Works, 1943-1962
- Ministry of Works and Buildings, 1940-1942
- Ministry of Works and Planning, 1942-1943
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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315 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
- Air Force
- 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 Public Health Act 1875 enacted that any industrial furnace which did not consume its own smoke as far as practicable and any chimney (not being the chimney of a private dwelling house) emitting black smoke in such quantities as to be a nuisance should be deemed a nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily. The Public Health (Smoke Abatement) Act 1926 and the Public Health Act 1936 extended and amended the Act of 1875.
The Acts were administered by local authorities (County Councils and Sanitary Authorities) and (in London) by Metropolitan Boroughs and the Council of the City of London.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8750/
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