Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Local Authority...

This series contains files from File Office D, which served the Local Authority Social Services Division, the Mental Health Division and Health Services Division 3 (Health Services Development Group) of the Department of Health and Social Security and their predecessors at the Ministry of Health. Files relate to provision of healthcare services under the National Health Service Act 1946, local authority health and welfare services (including provision of care for the elderly, the blind and the deaf, and psychiatric care) vaccination and immunisation, health education (including smoking) and fluoridation of water supplies. Also includes minutes and papers of the Committee of Enquiry into Mental Handicap Nursing and Care (the Jay Committee), and papers concerning public enquiries into smallpox incidents in Britain in the 1970s.