| Description | Central government circulars from the Ministry of Food, the Ministry of Health, the Home Office and the Board of Trade.
Themes covered include: Civil Nursing Reserve; Hutted Camps (use for housing); guidance on engagement of nursing, midwifery and other staff in hospitals; salaries of Public Health Officers; salaries and conditions of service of Midwives; accommodation for Midwives, District Nurses and Health Visitors; building materials; Medical Practitioners and Pharmacists Acts, 1947; Public Health (Aircraft) Regulations, 1948; building materials and exemptions; compensation under the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act, 1948; Nurses salaries relating to service in pulmonary tuberculosis nursing; notification of measles and whooping cough; civilian war dead, marking of graves; installation of fire hydrants; National Health Service (Transfer of Local Authority Functions); personal incomes, costs and prices; Fire Services Regulations 1948; National Health Service (Superannuation) Regulations 1947; Fire Brigade pension funds; war damage, sewerage and sewage disposal undertakings; certificates of vaccination and inoculation authentication; administrative arrangements of local authorities; various ice cream regulations; meat inspection; civil nursing reserve; transfer of hospitals from local authorities to the Ministry of Health; transfer of functions (food and drugs) order, 1948; closing down of the government evacuation scheme; National Assistance Act, 1948; financial assistance to tutors of nurses; requisition of unoccupied houses; licences for building new houses; street lighting; sickness benefit; bulk issues of petrol coupons; economy in use of electricity; civilian uniform concession; burial, etc, of the dead; control of borrowing by local authorities; ambulances; regional organisation; provision of entertainments; conferences. |