CLERK'S DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC HEALTH

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: MCC/CL/DMO
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: CLERK'S DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC HEALTH
Date(s)	: 1930-1948
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.5 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: MCC | Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The work of the County Health Department included maternity and child health services; care and after-care of persons in the community who have been ill; prevention of illness; health education; school health services; mental health services and health control at airports. The Health Department had central offices and offices in each health area and there is a large staff of doctors, dentists, nurses and other technical staff, in addition to administrative and clerical staff, under the direction of the County Medical Officer of Health and the District Medical Officers.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department comprising District Medical Officer's correspondence and general files, 1930-1948.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

MCC/CL/DMO/01: District Medical Officer's correspondence.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired with the records of its parent authority, the Middlesex County Council, and with successor authorities.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

For further information on the history of the Middlesex County Council please see Middlesex by Sir Clifford Radcliffe (2 editions, 1939 and 1953), LMA Library reference 97.09 MID; and The County Council of the Administrative County of Middlesex: 76 years of local government, 1 April 1889 to 31 March 1965, by Middlesex County Council (1965), LMA library reference S97.09 MID.

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
April to June 2009