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Catalogue description Ministry of Health: Care of Children and Elderly, Registered Files (99069 and 99073 Series)
| Reference: | MH 122 |
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| Title: | Ministry of Health: Care of Children and Elderly, Registered Files (99069 and 99073 Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains selected Ministry of Health files dealing with aspects of the care of children and old people. The papers relating to children deal mainly with the position of orphans, and other homeless and unaccompanied children who had been evacuated to reception areas under the Government Evacuation Scheme 1939. The papers relating to old people consist of lists of various institutions for the elderly in the United Kingdom. |
| Date: | 1944-1964 |
| Related material: |
For further files on the evacuation of children during the Second World War see HLG 7 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | 99,069 file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Ministry of Health, 1919-1968 |
| Physical description: | 7 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
In 1945 instructions were issued to local authorities setting out interim arrangements for the future care and maintenance of orphans, and other homeless and unaccompanied evacuee children. These arrangements were designed to bridge the period of transition from the winding-up of the scheme in 1945 to the coming into force on 5 July 1948 of the National Health Service Act 1946, the National Assistance Act 1948 and the Children Act 1948, as the persons for whom they provided would then come within the scope of the services established under these measures. |
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