Local Government Board

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Date:	1871-1919
History:	Established by Act of 1871, by which the Poor Law Board, Home Office Local Government Act Office, and Privy Council Office's Medical Department, merged to form a single board with primary responsibility for supervision of local government services. In 1919 the Ministry of Health was established under the Ministry of Health Act 1919 to consolidate medical and public health functions and supervision of local health services, and assumed from 1 July that year the powers and duties of the Local Government Board.
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (central)
References:	IC; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C278735

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference
1	1839-1879: Poor Law Commission and successors: Extracts from Minutes and Abstracts of Correspondence	The National Archives, Kew	MH 4
2	1834-1962: Ministry of Health and predecessors: Circular Letters	The National Archives, Kew	MH 10
3	1834-1900: Local Government Board and predecessors: Correspondence with Poor Law Unions and Other Local Authorities	The National Archives, Kew	MH 12
4	1836-1920: Local Government Board and predecessors: Subject Indexes of Correspondence	The National Archives, Kew	MH 15
5	1845-1930: Poor Law Commission and successors: Correspondence with Asylum Districts and Boards	The National Archives, Kew	MH 17
6	1874-1881: Local Government Board: Casual Wards, Visiting Officers' Diaries	The National Archives, Kew	MH 18
7	1834-1909: Local Government Board and predecessors: Correspondence with Government Offices	The National Archives, Kew	MH 19
8	1837-1920: Local Government Board and predecessors: Registers of Correspondence with Government Offices	The National Archives, Kew	MH 20
9	1834-1900: Local Government Board and predecessors: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Papers	The National Archives, Kew	MH 25
10	1891-1907: Local Government Board: Sanitary Inspectors' Examination Board, Correspondence and Papers	The National Archives, Kew	MH 26
11	1872-1904: Local Government Board: Local Government and Public Health Services, Correspondence with County Authorities	The National Archives, Kew	MH 30
12	1867-1920: Local Government Board: Local Government and Public Health Services, Registers of Correspondence with County Authorities	The National Archives, Kew	MH 31
13	1834-1904: Local Government Board and predecessors: Assistant Poor Law Commissioners and Inspectors, Correspondence	The National Archives, Kew	MH 32
14	1868-1935: Local Government Board, and Ministry of Health, Health Divisions: Public Health and Poor Law Services, Local Authority Correspondence (Series I)	The National Archives, Kew	MH 48
15	1913-1973: Ministry of Health: Poor Law Division and Health Divisions: Public Health and Poor Law Services, Local Authority Correspondence (Series II)	The National Archives, Kew	MH 52
16	1899-1920: Local Government Board: Miscellaneous Registers of Correspondence	The National Archives, Kew	MH 60
17	1905-1930: Local Government Board and Ministry of Health: Central (Unemployed) Body for London, Files and Minutes	The National Archives, Kew	MH 63
18	1862-1985: Ministry of Health and predecessors and successor: Establishment and Organization Files	The National Archives, Kew	MH 78
19	1885-1973: Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Bill Papers	The National Archives, Kew	MH 80
20	1872-1978: Welsh Board of Health: Registered Files	The National Archives, Kew	MH 96
21	1805-1882: Local Government Board and predecessors: Reports on Foreign Epidemics	The National Archives, Kew	MH 98
22	1873-1966: Ministry of Health and predecessor: Register of Official Inquiries into Charges Against Officers	The National Archives, Kew	MH 155
23	1836-1920: General Register Office: Letter Books	The National Archives, Kew	RG 29
24	1914-1919: Treasury: Books of Out-letters to Local Government Board	The National Archives, Kew	T 128
25	1800-1996: Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, and of successor and related bodies	The National Archives, Kew	HLG
26	1881-1992: Department of the Environment and Predecessors: Map Library Boundary Maps	The National Archives, Kew	AT 98
27	1911-1946: Ministry of National Insurance and predecessors: Local Pension Committee Appeals, Representative Case Papers	The National Archives, Kew	AST 4
28	1894-1950: Local Government Board and Ministry of Health: Vagrancy, Files	The National Archives, Kew	AST 8
29	1854-1985: Welsh Office and predecessors: Local Authorities, General Policy and Case Files (LA Series)	The National Archives, Kew	BD 11
30	1894: Photographs Extracted from MH series	The National Archives, Kew	CN 24
31	1833-1930: Records of the Poor Law Commission, Poor Law Board, General Board of Health and Local Government Board
32	1805-2001: Records of the Health Divisions
33	1852-1927: Local Government Board and predecessors and successor: Local Authorities, Registered Files (O Series)	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 1
34	1831-1906: Treasury and Local Government Board: Treasury Approval of Transactions Relating to Corporate Land, Files	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 2
35	1800-1919: Ministry of Health and predecessors: Buildings and Works, Miscellaneous Maps and Plans	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 6
36	1910-1955: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Legal and Parliamentary Branch and predecessors: Housing Instruments and Consents	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 13
37	1891-1955: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Legal and Parliamentary Branch and predecessors: Housing Registers of Instruments and Consents	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 14
38	1850-1925: Ministry of Health and predecessors: General Instruments and Consents Relating to Financial Transactions	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 15
39	1850-1926: Ministry of Health and predecessors: General Registers of Instruments and Consents Relating to Financial Transactions	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 16
40	1889-1934: Local Government Board, Order Department, and Ministry of Health, Legal Branch: Instruments and Consents Relating to Corporate Property	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 17
41	1889-1934: Local Government Board, Order Department, and Ministry of Health, Legal Branch: Instruments and Consents relating to Financial Transactions	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 18
42	1853-1952: Ministry of Health and predecessors: Miscellaneous Instruments and Consents	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 19
43	1909-1968: Local Government Board and successors: Registers of Miscellaneous Instruments and Consents	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 20
44	1901-1951: Local Government Board and Ministry of Health: Opening of New Burial Grounds, Instruments and Consents	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 21
45	1901-1906: Local Government Board: Burial Act 1900, Representative Tables of Fees	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 22
46	1890-1939: Local Government Board and Ministry of Health: Legal Branch and predecessors: Rehousing Schemes of Statutory Undertakers, Sealed Plans and Schemes	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 24
47	1872-1977: Local Government Board and successors: Legal Department and successors: Local Authority Byelaws	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 25
48	1842-1978: Poor Law Commission and successors: Legal Department and successors: Orders	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 26
49	1840-1997: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Legal and Parliamentary Branch and predecessors: Public Health and Local Government Legislation, Bill Papers	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 29
50	1862-1974: Home Office and successors: Taxation Branch and successors: Local Government Financial Statistics	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 32
51	1920-1958: Ministry of Health and successors: Local Government Division and Local Government Finance Division: Extinguishment of Tithe Rent Charges, Registered Files (91038 Series) and Registers of Payments of Grants	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 35
52	1854-1973: Ministry of Health and predecessors and successors: Burial Grounds, Registered Files	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 45
53	1852-1927: Local Government Board and predecessors and successor: General Policy and Procedure, Registered Files (O Series)	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 46
54	1914-1966: Ministry of Health and successors: Local Government Divisions and successors: Local Authority Administration and Finance, Registered Files	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 53
55	1906-1976: Ministry of Health and successors: Legal Branch and Legal and Parliamentary Branch: Local Authority Bill Papers	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 54
56	1914-1976: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Local Government Divisions and predecessors: Air Pollution and Smoke Abatement, Registered Files (91213 Series)	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 55
57	1910-1939: Local Government Board and Ministry of Health: Instruments and Consents to Planning Schemes and related Miscellanea	The National Archives, Kew	HLG 95
58	1854-1996: Records of Local Government Divisions

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Ministry of Health	Successor/Predecessor		See Also