Series
Home Office: Dangerous Drugs (DDA Symbol Series) and Drugs Record Cases (DRC Symbol...
Catalogue reference: HO 319
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HO 319
Files from the Home Office DDA (Dangerous Drugs) series and the DRC (Drugs Record Cases) series.They relate to Home Office functions and responsibilities with regard to dangerous drugs, as defined by the Dangerous Drugs Act 1951 and the Dangerous...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 319
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Dangerous Drugs (DDA Symbol Series) and Drugs Record Cases (DRC Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1943-2007
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files from the Home Office DDA (Dangerous Drugs) series and the DRC (Drugs Record Cases) series.
They relate to Home Office functions and responsibilities with regard to dangerous drugs, as defined by the Dangerous Drugs Act 1951 and the Dangerous Drugs Regulations 1953. The DRC series consisted of case files on individual addicts: the three files included in this series contain minor policy arising out of the case.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The inclusion of a date preceding a file number (eg. DDA (1959) 2/14/8) or following the DDA symbol series heading (eg. DDA 67) indicates the year in which the file was supposed to have been created, but often it only indicates the year in which the first subfile was raised on a particular subject.
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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)
- DDA and DRC Symbol 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)
- Home Office, 1782-1782
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 779 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1986 Home Office
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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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 Home Office had wide-ranging responsibilities with regard to dangerous drugs, including: manufacture, supply, stocks, control and disposal of both new and existing drugs; import and export, illicit traffic and smuggling; drugs branch inspectors; liaison with police; use by hospitals, chemists, doctors, dentists, nursing homes, health centres, first aid and emergency; and all aspects of addiction.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9183/
Catalogue hierarchy
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Within the department: HO
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Home Office: Dangerous Drugs (DDA Symbol Series) and Drugs Record Cases (DRC Symbol Series) Files