Catalogue description Ministry of Health and predecessors and successor: Establishment and Organization Files

This series mainly consists of files of the Establishment Division of the Ministry of Health relating to the organisation of the department, its predecessors, the Local Government Board and the National Health Insurance Commissioners for England and Wales, and subordinate departments including the Welsh Board of Health, the Board of Control, the Government Lymph Establishment and the General Register Office. The papers also relate to the creation of the Ministry (otherwise in MH 19), emergency arrangements during the General Strike, 1926, and establishment matters generally. Some files continued to be used by the Department of Health and Social Security after its creation in 1968.

See the records of the Welsh Board of Health in Division within BD

For files transferred to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government see:

HLG 110

Board of Control, 1913-1960

Department of Health and Social Security, Establishments and Organisation Division, 1968-1971

Department of Health and Social Security, Establishments and Personnel Division, 1972-1988

General Register Office, 1836-1970

Local Government Board, 1871-1919

Local Government Board, Government Lymph Establishment, 1907-1919

Ministry of Health, Establishments and Organisation Division, 1961-1968

Ministry of Health, Establishments Division, 1919-1961

Ministry of Health, Government Lymph Establishment, 1919-1946

National Health Insurance Commission (England), 1911-1919

National Health Insurance Commission (Wales), 1911-1919

Welsh Board of Health, 1919-1969