Catalogue description Registry of Friendly Societies: Annual Reports and Abstracts of Returns

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Reference: FS 32
Title: Registry of Friendly Societies: Annual Reports and Abstracts of Returns
Description:

Contains annual reports (printed volumes) of the Chief Registrar, and material appended to these reports by the Industrial Assurance Commissioners and the Building Societies Commission. Early reports contain information concerning Industrial and Provident Societies, Trade Unions, Workmen's Compensation Schemes and Loan Societies as well as the Friendly Societies. The series also contains abstracts of returns of sickness and mortality from friendly societies and loan societies, incorporated with the reports from 1881.
Date: 1852-1999
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 118 volume(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1996 Registry of Friendly Societies
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies is legally required to present an annual report of the work of the Registry of Friendly Societies to Parliament.

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