Catalogue description Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Administration of Public and Environmental Health Services, Registered Files (File Office A Series)

This series contains files from File Office A, which served the Administration and Social Security Operations Group (International Relations, Statistics and Research), Services Development Group (Public and Environmental Health), and Manpower Intelligence Division of the Department of Health and Social Security and its predecessors at the Ministry of Health. The subjects covered include chemists' remuneration, medical examinations of Commonwealth immigrants, congenital abnormalities associated with thalidomide, pollution, fluoridation of the water supply, health aspects of meat, egg and milk products, irradiation of food and food hygiene, aspects of port healthcare, reciprocal agreements in healthcare with other countries, medical aspects of food policy, NHS computer policy and development, specific diseases such as smallpox, and the papers and report of the DHSS study team on statistics, led by Sir Derek Rayner.

Earlier minutes of Regional Medical Officers meetings can be found in

MH 163

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Department of Health and Social Security, Administration and Social Security Operations Group, 1976-1988

Department of Health and Social Security, Manpower Intelligence Division, 1968-1988

Department of Health and Social Security, Services Development Group, 1976-1986

Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

From 1994 Department of Health