MH 291872-1904Board of Trade, Railway Department and Local Government Board, Metropolis Water Acts Department: Metropolitan Waterworks, Correspondence
This series contains correspondence and papers of the Board of Trade's Railway Department to January 1873 and thereafter of the Local Government Board relating to the water supply of the Metropolis, Metropolis Water Act 1871, annual and half-yearly accounts of individual water companies, petitions from ratepayers and local authorities, and correspondence and papers relating to the administration of the Act of 1871 and to subsequent legislation, culminating in the establishment of the Metropolitan Water Board in 1902.