Catalogue description Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Water Division and predecessors: Water and Sewerage, Registered Files

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Reference: HLG 50
Title: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Water Division and predecessors: Water and Sewerage, Registered Files
Description:

General and local authority files of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Local Government and Planning and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government relating to water supply, sewerage, sewage disposal and river pollution, including papers relating to capital works, local inquiries and reports of departmental inspectors, parliamentary bills, reports, research data, geological and water surveys, drought returns, floods and tempests and land drainage. Some of the earlier files contain correspondence of the Local Government Board.
Date: 1874-1974
Related material:

Earlier correspondence with local authorities will be found in MH 29
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 2894 file(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

Subject index with series list.

Administrative / biographical background:

These local authority and general policy files contain Departmental and Joint Advisory Committee reports, research data, records of geological and water surveys, schemes of capital works, reports of local inquiries, Departmental Inspectors's reports, suggested legislation, legal opinions, records of Orders and loan consents, papers connected with the promotion of various Parliamentary Bills and related correspondence.

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