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Catalogue description Welsh Office: Health and Social Work Department and successors: Registered Files (GHS prefix)
| Reference: | BD 119 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Welsh Office: Health and Social Work Department and successors: Registered Files (GHS prefix) |
| Description: |
This series consists of files relating to general health issues in Wales. Topics covered include Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the anthrax outbreak in North Wales, incidences of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), meningitis, the Chernobyl accident of 1986 and its effect on Wales, salmonella, incidence of cancer near Trawsfynydd and Wylfa power stations, children’s hospitals and hospices, child abuse, clenbuterol in farm animals and the restructuring of District Health Authorities. |
| Date: | 1981-1995 |
| Arrangement: |
The records are arranged chronologically in file prefix order. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | GHS prefix |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Welsh Office, Health and Social Work Department, 1973-1984 Welsh Office, Housing, Health and Social Services Policy Group, 1984-1995 |
| Physical description: | 48 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
in 2015 Welsh Government |
| Custodial history: | The records have been stored by the Welsh Government and predecessors in Cathays Park and Neptune Point, Cardiff, prior to transfer to The National Archives. |
| Accumulation dates: | 1983 to 1995 |
| Selection and destruction information: | RCP - 3.1.1 - the principal policies and actions of the UK central government and English and Welsh Governments. |
| Accruals: | Series is acrruing. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Health and Social Work Department was part of the Education, Health and Social Work, Housing, Water and Environmental Protection Sector. From the mid-1980s this Group also included the functions of transport, highways and planning. From 1984, the Health and Social Work Department became the Housing, Health and Social Services Policy Group under the same Sector to 1995. |
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