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
Reference: | MH 16 |
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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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