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Minutes and presented papers of Special Committees, Joint Committees and Advisory Committees of the Middlesex County Council, 1889-1965:

Airports Committee

Arms Committee

Auxiliary Forces Committee

Barnet Union Committee

Bridges Committee

Common Interests Committee

County Solicitor Committee

Dyrham Park Committee

Edmonton Union Committee

Education Committee

Governance Committee

Guildhall Committee

Health Committee

Local Government Committee

Medical Committee

Member of County Council Committee

National Insurance Committee

Officers Committee

Pensions Committee

Physically Handicapped Committee

Planning Committee

Poor Law Committee

Quarter Sessions Committee

Refuse Dumps Committee

Registration of Title Committee

Richmond Hill Committee

Road Stone Committee

Testimonial Committee

Thames Committee

Unemployed Workmen Committee

Vagrancy Committee

Voluntary Hospitals Committee

Wild Birds Committee

Records of the Middlesex County Council Public Control Department, 1904-1965, including personal papers of Chief Officer John O'Keefe (1950-1960) including files on the foods and food standards commission, food labelling, weights and measures regulations, Consumer's Advisory Council, samples sent to the public analyst, articles on food and drugs legislation, correspondence, photographs of the work of the department and examples of labels and forms used by the department.

Papers relating to food standards including files on coffee, gelatine, fish paste, ice cream, margarine, mustard, salad cream and mayonnaise, jams and jellies, beverages, wines, spirits and liquors, bread, milk, butter, cream, yoghurt, confectionary, vegetables, meat, eggs, soups, herbs and spices, cakes, pies and biscuits, slimming foods, vinegars and condiments, cheese, cereals, crisps, honey, soya products, vitamins. Also files on drugs, cosmetics, pollen tablets, and animal fats.

Papers relating to merchandise marks including legislation; notes regarding legal points; and files regarding honey, fruit and vegetables, meat, poultry, butter, turpentine, bleach and fabrics. Papers relating to the interpretation and labelling of poisons.

Papers relating to weights and measures including regulations; notes for the guidance of inspectors; correspondence and enquiries relating to sand and ballast; files regarding coke, coal, liquid fuels and lubricating oils; files regarding weighing equipment and measuring instruments including weighbridges.

Also registers and index cards of infringements; reports of infringements and legal appeals.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Public Assistance and Welfare Department, 1940-1965, including general files on a variety of topics including government legislation, administrative instructions, financial accounts and budgets, people in receipt of domiciliary relief, survey of physically disabled persons, welfare visitors, chronic sick people in residential accommodation, young chronic sick persons, liaison with regional hospital boards, mother and baby hospitals, abandoned children, and neglected children.

Register of old people's homes; registers of moveable property; case registers and index cards of elderly persons. Please note access to the case registers and index cards may be restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Public Assistance and Welfare Department relating to public assistance and relief, 1889-1948, including relevant Parliamentary legislation; papers of relief offices; personnel files; papers relating to relief policy; reports; appropriation of Poor Law hospitals; assessment regulations; papers relating to individual hospitals; papers relating to maternity care; papers relating to the care of children; papers relating to the care of mentally disabled persons; legal proceedings; registers and case files; registers of persons in the care of Boards of Guardians including lunatics and non settled poor.

Also papers relating to the Second World War including relief districts; invasion plans; fire watching and equipment; clothing distribution; arrangements for evacuation of persons in institutions and care homes; home refugees; refugees from abroad; billeting and re-housing; rest centres and emergency feeding.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Public Assistance and Welfare Department relating to homeless and problem families, 1948-1965, including statistics on homeless families; papers of the Assessment and Arrears Panel; reports; papers relating to temporary accommodation; admissions to council housing; homeless families case files and index cards.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Public Assistance and Welfare Department relating to blind and partially sighted people, 1930-1965, including papers relating to home teaching; papers relating to use of the wireless (radio); case files and index cards. Please note that access to the case files may be restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Provincial Joint Industrial Council, 1920-1962, including correspondence; bank book; agendas, reports and minutes of the Executive Committee; constitution, functions and recommendations of the Industrial Council; schedule of wages and working conditions, and decisions of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal affecting Middlesex staff.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Planning Department relating to the Rights of Way Survey, 1949-1964, including maps; statements; relevant legislation; objections to the first map and review of the Survey.

Aerial photographs from the Middlesex County Council Planning Department, 1944-1964, taken by the Royal Air Force on behalf of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. The photographs were numbered and need to be used in conjunction with the index maps.

Maps from the Middlesex County Council Planning Department, 1920-1961, including map of London Airport (Heathrow); map showing allotments in Middlesex; maps of bye-passes, roads and highways; maps of school sites and playing fields; map of land liable for flooding; nature conservancy map; maps of drainage and sewerage; map of the Thames Riverside Walk; maps of the Central, North, South and West Planning Areas and map of parishes, unions, rural and urban sanitary districts.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Planning Department relating to the County of Middlesex Development Plan, 1950-1965, including draft; amendments; objections and correspondence regarding the Plan; consultations; Quinquennial Review including objections, and accompanying maps for both the Plan and the Review.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Planning Department relating to administration, 1948-1965, including general files on a variety of topics including: acquisition of land, industrial acquisitions, advertisements, agricultural smallholdings, allotments, aviation, buildings of architectural or historic interest, car parking, caravans, cemeteries, offices, decentralisation of population and industry, population density, the County Development Plan, drainage, electricity substations, finances and budgets, planning in Greater London, the Green Belt, highways and roads, land use surveys, new towns, open spaces, Parliamentary matters, railways, rivers including the Thames, traffic, urban renewal, water services, schools.

General files relating to planning in the Central planning area, North planning area, South planning area and West planning area (please consult the administrative history for a list of the places in each area). Papers relating to the decentralisation and relocation of industry including policy papers, surveys, acquisitions and floor space statistics.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Officers Association, 1933-1965, comprising correspondence and copies of the Guildhall Gazette staff magazine.

Records of the Middlesex County Council, 1712-1975, including the Architect's Department, Civil Defence Department, Children's Department, Clerk's Department, Clerk's Legal Department, Education Officer's Department, Engineer and Surveyor's Department, Estates and Valuation Department, Fire Brigade Department, County Treasurer's Department, Health Department, Local Taxation Department, and Public Assistance and Welfare Department.

The type of records held include committee minutes and papers, administrative records, reports, plans and maps, photographs, log books, registers and samples of case files, examinations, application forms, licences, publicity material, pamphlets, leaflets and publications. The records deal with various aspects of Middlesex governance including the management of schools, hospitals, health centres, libraries, residential care homes and other insitutions; the overseeing and regulation of construction work, roads and highways, sewers, drains and bridges; tax assessments; the construction and maintenance of housing estates; the maintenance of parks and open spaces; the care of children, the elderly and the disabled; the monitoring of legal requirements; licensing and monitoring of establishments including theatres and cinemas; licensing of vehicles and drivers; traffic congestion and transport issues; town planning; financial accounts, estimates and budgets, and civil defence and emergency measures during the First and Second World Wars.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Local Taxation Department, 1916-1965, including Section Heads meetings notes; Inspector's Conferences notes; correspondence with the Ministry of Transport; statistics relating to licences; papers relating to overtime and leave; petrol allowances; papers relating to the administration and control of licences for hawkers, moneylenders, pawnbrokers and refreshment houses; papers relating to dog, gun and game licences; notes on local taxation licences; papers relating to vehicle registration and licensing including correspondence and registers; and examples of application forms and licences.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the London Airport Committee (Heathrow), 1948-1964, including correspondence; financial papers; papers relating to noise from aircraft, transport links and road works; papers relating to insurance, and press notices.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to unsupported mothers, 1949-1965, comprising case files and index cards. Please note access to these files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to staff, 1947-1965, including general files relating to: medical staff, dental staff, uniforms and protective clothing, midwives, home nurses, training, health visitors, day nursery staff, medical auxiliaries, residential special schools, airports, chest clinics and health education.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to school health, 1944-1965, including general files relating to: juvenile delinquency, physically disabled pupils, special schools, blind and partially sighted pupils, education of the deaf, residential schools, epilepsy, mentally deficient pupils, medical inspections, ear, nose and throat clinics, dermatological survey of schoolchildren, provision of medicines and vitamins, child guidance centres, holiday camps for diabetic and epileptic children, speech therapy, first aid equipment, accidents, employment of children, 'latch-key' children, school canteens, head lice, ophthalmic treatment, colour vision testing, orthopaedic treatment, physiotherapy, surveys of the health and development of children, precautions against tuberculosis, vaccination, maladjusted children, dyslexia, control of infectious diseases and school meals.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to premises belonging to health services, 1948-1965, including policy and correspondence relating to health centres; mobile clinics; accommodation for Health Services staff; policy relating to the maintenance of premises, disposal of surplus equipment; papers relating to Brookfield House Clinic, Edmonton; and proposals for a clinic at Strathmore Road, Teddington.

Registers of notified births in Middlesex, 1914-1950, particularly in Feltham, Friern Barnet, Hampton Wick, Hayes and Harlington, Hendon, Kingsbury, Northwood, Potters Bar, Ruislip, South Mimms, Staines, Sunbury, Uxbridge, West Drayton and Yiewsley.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to mental health services, 1915-1965, including papers regarding staff training; papers relating to psychiatric hospitals; papers relating to residential homes for the mentally ill; policy on after care for mental patients and alcoholics; investigation into autism; survey of children with Down's Syndrome; papers relating to guardianship cases; papers regarding the care of mentally ill or disturbed children; papers relating to training centres, education, occupational therapy and workshops for the mentally ill or disabled; photographs of Enfield Adult Training Centre and papers relating to individual institutions. Also sample case files for mentally defective persons and mentally ill persons: please note that access to case files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to local health services, 1934-1965, including papers regarding co-operation between local health authorities, hospital authorities and general practitioners; policy on day nurseries and crèches; policy relating to the care of mothers and babies; policy relating to birth control; papers relating to the midwifery service and general childbirth; papers of the Family Help Service relating to problem families; policy on homeless families; policy relating to welfare foods; policy on health visiting and home nursing; papers regarding vaccination and immunisation; policy relating to the care of the aged; policy on nursing homes; papers relating to research, investigations and trials.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to the dental section, 1922-1965, including orthodontic treatment policy; dental education to aid in the conservation of teeth; dental treatment in schools; research and investigation into sodium fluoride; dental prosthetics; dental anaesthetics; Ministry of Education circulars; Ministry of Health Circulars, and press cuttings.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to care and after care, 1944-1965, including papers relating to the care of tuberculosis patients; papers relating to chiropody clinics; papers relating to mother and baby homes; papers regarding the provision of nursing equipment; papers relating to the provision of invalid kitchens and laundry services.

Papers relating to the Health Education Scheme including lecture notes; public information film '52 Small Bones' on the care of children's feet; papers of the Smoking and Lung Cancer Committee; papers of the Fluoridation Information Service; policy relating to accidents in the home; papers relating to diabetes; papers regarding Well Women's Clinics, and papers regarding venereal diseases. Also papers relating to recuperative holidays including registers of cases; sample of case papers of those sent on recuperative holidays, and registers of recuperative holidays for children.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to administration, 1901-1965, including minutes of Staff Conferences; minutes of meetings of Heads of Sections; reports made to the Middlesex Local Medical Committee; minutes of meetings of Area Chief Clerks; examples of forms in use; general files relating to infant welfare, day nurseries, midwifery, home nursing, vaccination and immunisation, home helps, children in care, clinics, dental care and record keeping; papers relating to the National Health Service; papers relating to the Ambulance Service; papers relating to Regional Hospital Boards; papers relating to public health matters; statistics and returns; circulars from the County Medical Officer to the area medical officers; and papers relating to the reorganisation of London government in 1965.

Photographs from the Middlesex County Council Health Department, 1940-1962, showing an ante-natal clinic; Ashford Health Centre; Bedford Clinic; Cecil Park Clinic; Central Clinic, Edmonton; a chiropody clinic; dental clinics in Hounslow and Southall; Ealing Foot Clinic; Minet Clinic, Hayes; a mobile clinic; North Road Clinic, Southall; Northolt Grange Clinic; Shepperton Clinic; Stonebridge Park Clinic, Willesden; Ambulance Service headquarters, Kenton; a day nursery, Feltham; a District Nurses home, Harrow; the Health Control Unit at Heathrow; health education photographs; infant welfare centres; children being vaccinated; a Tuberculosis service occupational therapy class and men disabled by tuberculosis attending a rehabilitation workshop in Tottenham.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to financial accounts, 1950-1965, including the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation Fund; car allowance policy; tuberculosis settlements; recuperative holidays and loan of nursing equipment.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Fire Brigade Department relating to staff, 1944-1965, including policy and administration files including: recruitment policy, recruitment advertising, conditions of service, contracts of employment, staff discipline, pensions schemes, membership of unions and professional bodies.

Papers relating to training including: Fire Service College, training school, training of recruits, test calls and exercises, driving tests and promotion examinations. Personal papers of the Chief Officer including minutes of meetings, budgets, pay negotiations, staff annual reports, divisional instructions and memos.

Also personnel files for individual staff members. Personnel files survive for personnel who worked for the Middlesex County Council Fire Brigade Department and who resigned from the service before the 31st March 1965. The personnel files of regular, uniformed staff who transferred from the Middlesex Brigade, in particular to the new London Fire Brigade in 1965, were passed onto their new employers at the time and do not survive in the MCC archive. The same applies to files of Auxiliary Fire personnel. Files concerning regular firemen have been kept in their entirety, apart from those for staff born before 1900 or whose deaths (not occurring at work) were reported in the files. Please note access to these files is restricted.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Fire Brigade Department, 1949-1965, comprising fire reports providing details of incidents handled by the Fire Service; analysis of fire calls; and statistics relating to ambulance service calls.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Fire Brigade Department Auxiliary Fire Service, 1948-1965, including policy and administration files relating to: civil defence, planning, repair depots, personnel management, staff regulations, conditions of service, minutes of meetings of officers, tactical studies, tactical instructors, competitions, recreational facilities, and liaison with other authorities.

Files relating to recruitment and training including: recruitment policy, recruitment publicity including films, courses at civil defence training schools, rescue training, training films, exercises, promotions, women's section, allowances and expenses, medical examinations and long service medals.

Files relating to appliances and equipment including housing of vehicles and appliances, motor cycles, Bedford self propelled pumps, equipment for water relaying, stores and provisions, extension ladders, and training pamphlets.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Fire Brigade Department relating to administration, 1948-1965, including files relating to policy including: procedures, establishment and organisation of the Ambulance Service, transfer of Ambulance Service to the Chief Medical Officer, record keeping, financial regulations, budget estimates, mutual assistance with the Fire Brigades of other Councils, Ambulance Service correspondence with the public including complaints, prosecutions against members of the public, attendance of personnel at inquests and photographs.

Files of routine orders; files relating to operations including: procedures for mobilising the Fire Service, co-ordination of arrangements and command, response to major incidents including photographs and press cuttings, fires of special interest, reports, inquests, policy on special services, instructions for extinction of fires involving special risk, radioactive materials, oil pipelines, London Airport (Heathrow), Northolt Aerodrome, motorways and the Olympic Games.

Files relating to appliances and equipment including: purchase of new vehicles, replacement of vehicles, licensing and insuring, maintenance, vehicle designs and development, water pumps, contracts, salvage tenders, emergency tenders, reports on accidents to vehicles, ambulance equipment, inflatable boats, training in smoke conditions, foam apparatus, hoses, extension ladders, lifting gear, protective clothing, petrol policy and tyres.

Files relating to communications including: telephone facilities, fire telephones, control room and headquarters, development of Middlesex Radio Scheme, radio training, call bell system, automatic fire alarms, damage to fire alarms, fire detection systems, and exercises. Files relating to hydrants including: statistics, marking of hydrants, water company police, emergency water supplies, hydrant schemes, and improvement work.

Files relating to the management and maintenance of Fire Service accommodation including new building programme, plans of fire stations, fire station organisation, repair depots and workshops, catering and feeding requirements, and log books.

Papers relating to press and publicity, including: policy on information given to the press, information given to technical magazines and general publications, publicity films, medals, honours and awards, ceremonies, demonstrations and displays, competitions, and inspector's visits.

Papers relating to the transfer of the Service to the Greater London Council (GLC), Hertfordshire Fire Brigade and Surrey Fire Brigade in 1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Estates and Valuation Department, 1897-1960, including County rate basis registers of returns from clerks to assessment committees and from clerks to commissioners of taxes; objections to rate assessments; rating schedules for MCC properties, including special properties, out county assessments, analysis of variations in assessment, and register of proposals and proceedings; Middlesex Review Order maps; papers relating to special properties including railways, canals, sewers and parks; review and alteration of county boundaries and circular letters issued by the Department.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Engineer and Surveyor's Department, 1912-1964, including Second World War damage survey maps of Middlesex and parts of Hertfordshire and Essex; plans of the routes of electric railways and tramways; Thames bridges plans and sections; plans of roads; map of Middlesex showing parishes; map of Dyrham Park in South Mimms and map showing the football grounds and greyhound tracks in Middlesex.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Engineer and Surveyor's Department, 1914-1964, comprising administrative files relating to the day to day work of the Department. The subject matter of this series is wide ranging and includes information on road widening, road improvements, maintenance of highways, bridges and sewers, provision of road signs, accident reports and town planning schemes.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Engineer and Surveyor's Department relating to air raid precautions, 1939-1945, comprising maintenance schedules and specifications in regard to the permanent linking of trenches, and papers relating to the formation of General Construction Co.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Engineer and Surveyor's Department relating to finance, 1908-1947, including general salaries book; Ministry of Transport grants; registers of improvements to roads; improvement grants register; certificates issued for work done; county roads expenditure and cash analysis book.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Engineer and Surveyor's Department relating to entertainments licensing, 1893-1965, including records relating to licenses for individual buildings across Middlesex, including public halls, cinemas, public houses, hotels, public baths, social centres, canteens and sports stadiums; plans of buildings that were subsequently demolished, mainly cinemas and theatres; plans of buildings licensed by the MCC in 1965.

General administrative papers including Appeals Committee reports; copies of regulations and legislation; duties of staff; correspondence; car park returns detailing car park capacity; returns of seating capacities in individual cinemas; reports on film censorship; layouts of circuses and tents; liaison with the fire service and mobile cinemas.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Engineer and Surveyor's Department relating to civil defence, 1949-1963, including Home Office civil defence circulars; Middlesex civil defence circulars; notes for instructors; training notes and technical notes.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to the Youth Employment Service, set up in 1910 to guide young people into the occupations for which they were most suited. It contains files on administration, correspondence and reports, lists of staff and school leavers, regional committee files, apprenticeship schemes and papers of individual youth employment bureaux.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to welfare services for children and children's care work, including files relating to a variety of subjects including medical and dental inspections, legal liaison, latch key children, the provision of clothing, the School Meals Service, the Child Guidance Service and juvenile employment.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to the Second World War, 1939-1947, including papers relating to measures undertaken by the Education Officer's Department to safeguard children during and after the Second World War. The material relates to evacuation, air raid precautions and the provision of milk in secondary schools.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department, 1923-1964, comprising personnel records relating to the staff of the Department and teachers in the County's schools, and personnel files from Maria Grey Teacher Training College and Trent Park Teacher Training College. Please note personnel files containing personal information will be closed under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to higher and further education, 1929-1965, including further educational schemes; papers relating to higher education in Acton, Finchley and Tottenham; examinations for the Armed Forces and the Royal Society of Arts; papers relating to individual colleges and polytechnics.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to finances, 1919-1966, including papers relating to school fees; papers relating to financial aid for pupils; budget estimates and correspondence relating to the estimates; and abstract books for teacher salaries and superannuation.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to the Technical Education Committee, 1892-1913, including correspondence from Acton Secondary and Technical School; correspondence relating to the Committee's application to be an authority for art and science; correspondence from Godolphin School, Hammersmith; correspondence and scheme of management for Kingston Endowed Schools; and correspondence, scheme of administration, pamphlets and scholarship examinations from Strode's Charity, Egham, Surrey.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to policy, 1900-1965, including relevant legislation; policy files on the hire of school premises; correspondence; Education Department schemes; papers relating to the construction of new schools; annual returns to the Ministry of Education; Inspection reports; papers of the Middlesex Joint Consultative Committee; examination statistics; papers relating to extracurricular activities; newspaper cuttings relating to education theory; and booklet 'Education in Middlesex 1900-1965'.

Records of the Middlesex School Boards, 1867-1924, including financial accounts, staffing, Board of Education reports, bye laws, minutes and correspondence for Hampton Wick School Board; papers relating to land and buildings, staffing, financial accounts, bye laws, minutes, seals, posters and correspondence for Edgware School Board; minutes, staffing, financial accounts and correspondence relating to buildings for Hanwell School Board; financial accounts, proposals for the sale of land, minutes, posters, correspondence and notes on syllabus for Kingsbury School Board; minutes, bye laws, correspondence and financial statements for Old Brentford School Board; correspondence regarding sale of land and correspondence regarding separation from Wood Green School Board for Tottenham School Board.

Also minutes for Harmondsworth School Board; papers regarding sale of land and buildings for Hornsey School Board; minutes for Norwood School Board; minutes for Staines School Board and minutes for Ashford School Board.

Publications produced by the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department, 1899-1965, including Technical Instruction directories; directories of secondary schools, technical institutes and evening schools; lists of public elementary, secondary, junior technical and art schools, polytechnics, colleges, evening schools and youth employment bureaux; issues of the 'Schools Gazette'; The Middlesex Book of Verse' collected poems by students of Middlesex secondary schools (1929); booklet 'Further education in Middlesex: A review of the thirty years 1933-1963' (1964); 'Guide to courses of further education in Middlesex' (1964); and pamphlet 'Middlesex County Libraries Silver Jubilee, 1922-1947' (1948).

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to libraries, 1922-1965, including papers relating to the ceremonial openings of individual libraries; annual reports of the County Librarian; reviews, reports and schemes; papers relating to the development of library services in Harrow; publications including pamphlets and leaflets regarding the Library Service, catalogues, specialised book lists and research guides, issues of the magazine of the Library Service; issues of the Staff Association newsletter and papers relating to the handover of the Library Service to the new London Boroughs in 1965.