Catalogue description Ministry of Health and predecessor: Register of Official Inquiries into Charges Against Officers

This series consists of a single volume (known as "the Black Book"), which contains brief notes of official inquiries into charges against officers. The cases documented were brought against officers performing a range of duties; the commonest being inspectors of nuisances, and medical officers of health. Other officers were clerks, rate collectors, sanitary inspectors and surveyors, vaccination officers, and public health inspectors. Cases listed in this volume concern infringements of rules and regulations, details of criminal and civil proceedings against officers, cases of fraud and embezzlement, professional misconduct and malpractice, incompetence and votes of no confidence in officers to carry out their duties, and cases of officers discharged on medical grounds.

Correspondence on cases in this register has not survived.

Local Government Board, 1871-1919

Ministry of Health, 1919-1968