IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): LMA/4012
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: TOTTENHAM LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH
Date(s): 1861-1912
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.2 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Tottenham Local Board of Health
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Tottenham Local Board of Health was originally established in 1831 to deal with a cholera outbreak but was disbanded in 1832. From 1850 a new board of health was set up under the Public Health Act of 1848. By 1860 it had taken over the work of lighting inspectors, highway surveyors and fire-fighting.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Clerk's Report Book, 1882-1886; notices to provide cisterns to boilers, urinals and water closets, by regulation of the Board under the 1871 Metropolis Water Act, 1873-1873.
Also Tottenham Urban District Council attendance book, 1907-1912 and Tottenham Parish Rifle Grounds (33rd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers): minutes of Lammas Meetings and Marsh Road Committee, 1861-1867.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ADMINISTRATION LMA/4012/01; RELATED BODIES LMA/4012/02.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These records were purchased in 1997 (B97/059).
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Other records covering Tottenham are held at LMA, including the parish records of All Hallows (DRO 15), and records of Tottenham and District Gas Company (Acc/1153), Tottenham School of Industry (Acc/660), Tottenham Magistrates Court (PS/E/T) and Tottenham Manor (Acc/695). Most local government records concerning Tottenham are in the custody of Haringey Archives, Bruce Castle Museum, Lordship Lane, London N17 8NU.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2009