Catalogue description Local Government Board: Metropolis Water Acts Department and Public Health Department: Regulation and Licensing of Alkali and other Chemical Works, Correspondence and Papers

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Title: Local Government Board: Metropolis Water Acts Department and Public Health Department: Regulation and Licensing of Alkali and other Chemical Works, Correspondence and Papers
Description:

This series contains correspondence and papers of the Local Government Board's Metropolis Water Acts and Public Health Departments, relating to the regulating of chemical processes and the licensing of alkali and other chemical works in England, Wales and Ireland, and in Scotland (up to 1855), under the several Alkali Acts.
Date: 1873-1898
Related material:

For records of the Alkali Inspectorate see BT 328
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Local Government Board, Metropolis Water Acts Department, 1873-1884

Local Government Board, Public Health Department, 1876-1919
Physical description: 9 box(es)
Administrative / biographical background:

The Alkali Works Inspectorate and an examiner of metropolitan water were taken over from the Board of Trade in 1873 and were under the control of the Metropolis Water Acts Department.

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