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Catalogue description General Register Office: Circulars
| Reference: | RG 41 |
|---|---|
| Title: | General Register Office: Circulars |
| Description: |
The circulars run from 1909 and mainly relate to instructions issued by the General Register Office concerning the duties imposed, largely under various acts and measures, on officers of the registration service in England and Wales, and also information to Medical Officers of Health, medical practitioners, coroners, local authorities and persons responsible for the solemnisation of marriages in certain religious denominations. The first piece contains documents relating to vital and health statistics for the period 1910-1940. |
| Date: | 1909-2001 |
| Arrangement: |
The records are arranged in yearly folders from 1909. Before 1920 no consistent system of numeration or coding was in use and the circulars, notices, forms etc are arranged in date order. A uniform system of identifying circulars by GRO prefix and numbered consecutively within the year of issue was introduced in 1920 and the circulars are arranged in series order. The prefix Reg W was adopted for the series issued from April 1939 until 1946 and numbered consecutively during 1939. The GRO prefix was resumed in 1947 and two further separate series were introduced in 1950 for Medical Officers of Health GRO (MOH), and general GRO (GEN) circulars, numbered consecutively within the year of issue. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
General Register Office, 1836-1970 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, 1970-1996 |
| Physical description: | 96 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1981 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
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