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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 Children's Department relating to adoption, including adoption registers, 1926-1965; case files, 1933-1965; memoranda of adoptions notified to Middlesex County Council, 1956 and case files deposited by the London Borough of Ealing, 1948-1965. Please note that access to many of these files will be restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to approved schools and remand homes, comprising indexes of children in approved schools, 1941-1965. Please note that access to these files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department, 1916-1965, relating to children in care, including case files, family case papers and reports, and registers of children adopted by the Boards of Guardians or the County Council, of children boarded out, of children attending secondary school, of children taken into care, of committals to MCC care, of children adopted from MCC care, of children who died in care and of welfare cases. Please note that access to these files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to the Children's Officer, 1947-1965, including the personal files of Jane Rowell regarding adoption policy, apprenticeship of children in care, approved schools, children neglected in their own homes, children ill treated, correspondence with children, correspondence requesting assistance or advice, attendance at conferences, the Family Help Service, health, including mental health, juvenile courts, juvenile delinquency, meeting minutes, press cuttings and publicity, Psychiatric Advisory Service, reports, foster homes, staffing, and voluntary organisations.

Also samples of monthly returns of children, submitted to the County Treasurer, and statistical returns submitted to the Home Office; and publications relevant to the work of the Department including "Report on the services administered by the Children's Department, MCC", 1952.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to children's homes, 1887-1955, including admission and discharge registers; creed registers; medical relief books and attendance books and reports for Children's Homes run by the Middlesex County Council. Some Homes were formerly run by Edmonton Union, the Brentford Union and the Willesden Guardians.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to foster care, 1930-1965, including notifications of death and removal under the Children Act 1908; notifications of death and removal under the Public Health Act 1936; registers of child life protection; case files on foster parents; applications and correspondence with foster carers. Please note that access to these files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerks Department regarding the running of the Civil Defence Department, 1939-1965, including Second World War invasion defence plans; Civil Defence Committee papers and general files on a variety of subjects including including policy documents, civil defence premises and buildings, conferences, Home Office training pamphlets and memoranda, circulars, recruitment, budgets, finances, ambulance service, training and equipment, vehicles, tactical studies, instructors, publicity, rescue training grounds, awards, control centres and copies of Middlesex County Council Civil Defence circulars. Also hired premises register listing property, rent and compensation.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Children's Department and Children's Committees, 1948-1965, including papers, reports and correspondence of Adoption sub-committee meetings; cases reported to the Children's Committee; papers relating to the registration of adoption societies, particularly the Homeless Children's Aid and Adoption Society; papers relating to approved schools, including circulars, returns and the Association of Approved Schools Managers; special enquiries concerning children in care; papers regarding juvenile delinquency and juvenile courts; papers of the Homes Management sub-committee, including members reports on children's homes, schedules of properties in the course of construction or adaptation, and plans of homes and nurseries; papers relating to staff including complaints against staff of children's homes; and papers relating to the reorganisation of the children's home service on the disbandment of the MCC.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Chairman of the County Council, 1890-1965, including papers relating to Council administration including seating in the Council Chamber, orders of proceeding, printing and dispatch of reports, notices of motions, amendments, summaries of proceedings, agendas, annual meetings of the County Council, constitution, Middlesex Regiment presentations and regimental colours, and ceremonies. Papers relating to County Council elections including election leaflets, and papers relating to the triennial elections, 1949-1961. Papers relating to County Councillors including declarations of acceptance of office, resignations, elections of Aldermen, deaths of members and past members, and annual returns of attendances.

General files relating to Middlesex County balls, County dinners and receptions, Chairman's social functions, twinning of Middlesex with places in France and Germany, biographies and newspaper cuttings relating to Chairmen, copies of invitations, Christmas cards, dinner menus and so on, and photographs of the last meeting of the Council.

Also statements on some principal operations of the County Council, made by the Chairman.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to County Councillors, 1882-1965, including papers relating to Middlesex County Council elections including registers of polling places, registers of electors, poll results, and general papers concerning elections; papers regarding Councillors, including records of results of elections, declarations of acceptance of office, attendance books, press attendance registers, biographies of Councillors and the constitution of the County Council. Also year books, diaries and almanacs.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the County Solicitor, 1909-1934, including correspondence; general advice; papers relating to light railways and electric tramways; papers relating to the Small Dwelling Acquisition Act; gas examiners reports; ledgers of the advance for compensation account; ledgers of the petty disbursement account and report on registration of title.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the control of diseases of animals, 1909-1965, including general administrative files relating to veterinary inspectors fees and conditions of service and the appointment of an agricultural analyst; papers relating to diseases of animals including list of livestock owners in Middlesex, handbooks and orders relating to the care of animals.

Papers relating to specific diseases including anthrax, bovine mastitis, atropic rhinitis, cattle plague, epizootic lymphangitis, foot and mouth disease, fowl pest, glanders and farcy, parasitic mange, Johne's disease, pneumonia, rabies, sheep scab, scrapie, swine fever, tuberculosis and warble fly; papers relating to the movement of animals including importation and exportation orders, landing prohibition orders, control of dogs, registers of swine and foot and mouth disease licences and markets and sales orders.

Papers relating to fertilisers and feeding stuffs, including inspections under the Fertilizers and Feeding Stuffs Act 1926, high protein poultry food, infringements and prosecutions; papers relating to pests including watermark disease, wart disease and fruit tree pests; and papers relating to the breeding of horses.

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

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Establishment Committee, 1923-1965, comprising papers relating to staff matters including superannuation, grading, appeals against grading decisions, leave, recruitment, expenses, employment of the disabled, departmental reorganisations, salary scales, equal pay, staff inspections, financial aid, training schemes, bonus schemes, advertising and publicity, correspondence, reports, conditions of service and regulations. Also Joint Negotiating Committee papers, Fire Brigade personnel cards, and papers relating to the transfer of staff to other authorities in 1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to general administration, including files on a variety of subjects including personnel matters, superannuation, adoption, education services, the mentally disabled, local government reforms, construction and maintenance of schools, charities and funds, rating and valuation, public health, health services, health professionals, war service, resuming services after the Second World War, and Council offices.

Papers regarding property acquisitions and transactions, including schools, housing estates, roads, swimming pools, the Duke of Northumberland's River, hospitals, bridges and clinics. Papers relating to minor legal cases and litigation, including claims for war damage, prosecutions for dereliction of duties during Second World War and Public Control Department prosecutions for food hygiene cases.

Copies of legislation relevant to the working of the Council. Papers of the Standing Joint Committee, including court houses, superannuation and staff insurance schemes, the Provincial Joint Industrial Council and Middlesex Guildhall. Papers relating to Common Law, including accident reports, staff appeals and legal cases and claims against the Council.

Registers of open spaces in Middlesex; papers relating to the evacuation of hospitals and institutions during the Second World War; papers relating to the Tithe Act, 1936; correspondence of the County Solicitor; returns of boys and girls at industrial and reformatory schools; newspaper cuttings.

Deeds of educational premises, hospitals and Boards of Guardians institutions and general properties. Plans of institutions, hospitals, offices, schools and colleges, court houses, highways, bridges, rivers, watercourses, tramways and planning schemes.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to education, 1712-1965, including purchases of school lands and buildings; instruments and articles of government for schools and colleges; borough schemes for the divisional administration of education; general files on a variety of subjects including the School Library Service; transfer of pupils to secondary schools; conditions of service for teachers, design and construction of new schools, audits of accounts, education development plan, rules of management of Voluntary Aided Schools, use of school premises after hours, education and training of the physically or mentally disabled, proposals for a Middlesex Apprenticeship scheme and valuation of schools.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to finances, 1942-1965, including budget estimates; arrangements for collection of wages cash; improvement grants; mortgages; loans; papers relating to specific banks; housing loans; fees paid to solicitors and the breaking of mortgage agreements. Also correspondence relating to properties owned by the Edmonton Latymer Foundation.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to highways, 1838-1965, including papers regarding extensions to the Great West Road and Western Avenue; papers relating to the acquisition of land for road improvements; papers regarding the North Circular Road; papers regarding road building schemes implemented for unemployment relief; papers relating to the acquisition of the Duke of Northumberland's River; files relating to compulsory purchase orders and Acquisition of Land Committee register of properties. Also general files on a variety of subjects including illumination of traffic signs; automatic traffic control signals; pedestrian crossings; pollution of rivers; passenger charges schemes; the Operation of Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950; contracts and tenders for the maintenance of trunk and county roads; agreements with the Ministry of Transport and erosion of the banks of the River Thames.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to magistrates courts, 1957-1965, including general papers and papers relating to Barnet, Harrow, Highgate and Willesden Courthouses.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to smallholdings, 1927-1965, including general papers; matters arising under the Smallholdings and Allotments Acts; papers relating to individual smallholdings including problems with land access, sale of land and construction works taking place on land.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to supplies, 1948-1965, including papers relating to members allowances and expenses; papers regarding central repair depots and transport depots; papers relating to stores; lists of approved contractors and investigations into monopolies and restrictive practices; papers relating to chauffeurs and drivers, and tenders for supply of various goods.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to the Welfare Department, 1940-1965, including general papers relating to maternity and child welfare services, accommodation for people rendered temporarily homeless, employment of blind workers and workshops for the disabled; papers relating to liaison with district councils; papers relating to individual cases; papers relating to staffing; registers of homes for disabled persons and old people.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to the West Middlesex Drainage scheme, 1929-1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department comprising Middlesex County Council seals and badges, 1902-1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the West Middlesex Drainage Scheme, 1930-1965, including maps and plans of trunk sewers and effluent conduits; administrative papers; staffing matters including appointment of Chief Engineers and Chemists; papers relating to the maintenance and upkeep of the Mogden Sewage Treatment Works, Isleworth; papers relating to general maintenance at Perry Oaks Sludge Works (demolished in 2002, the site is now part of Heathrow Terminal 5); papers relating to pollution and flooding in the River Thames; papers regarding the demolition of Brentford and Chiswick sewage works; papers regarding the general policy on chlorination stations, inter-district drainage, local sewer connections, methane gas, synthetic detergents, sludge disposal and trade effluents; correspondence with other sewage authorities, and papers relating to civil defence including war damage and air raid precautions.

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, 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, 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 County Treasurer's Department, 1889-1965, including annual budgets; abstract of accounts; annual budget capital estimates; revised capital estimates; reports of the Accounts and General Sub-committee; statistics; financial and statistical digest; capital ledgers for various departments; general revenue ledgers; trust funds; loan ledgers; stock and stock redeemable ledgers; superannuation funds; charges for maintenance of children in hostels; financial records of individual children's homes; accounts of Hampton Grammar School Foundation; accounts of Edmonton Latymer Foundation; and financial accounts of the Estates and Housing Committee.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Records of the Middlesex County Council Civil Defence Department comprising plans drawn up by the local authorities in Middlesex in the period 1937-1940. They show, in varying degree of detail, the locations of first aid posts; shelters; repair, rescue and demolition posts; distribution depots; respirator stores; trenches; wardens sectors; decontamination centres; police centres; police stations; hospitals; fire stations. Also plans of London Region Civil Defence boundaries, 1948-1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Civil Defence Department relating to activities during the Second World War, 1939-1945, including air raid log books, situation reports, damage logs and register of claims for compensation; correspondence on civil defence matters with the London Civil Defence Region, the Home Guard and other local and military authorities; civil defence demonstrations and exercises; bulletins and instructions; and schedules of requisitioned property.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to approved schools and remand homes. Administrative files, 1947-1964, including general files, headmaster's reports, medical returns, punishment returns and training schemes for Saint Christopher's School, Hayes; absconder returns, general files, punishment returns and superintendent's reports for Saint Helena's Remand Home, Ealing; absconder returns, general files, punishment returns and superintendent's reports for Saint Nicholas' Remand Home, Enfield; educational arrangements, general files, headmaster's reports, magazines, medical returns and punishment returns for Pishiobury School, Sawbridgeworth; and general files including papers on diet, Home Office circulars and reports, pamphlets and psychiatrist's research.

Case files of children licensed out or discharged, 1941-1964 and correspondence on children before juvenile courts who require medical and psychiatric reports, 1950-1952. Statistics of cases in juvenile courts, 1945-1953. Registers of admissions to approved schools and out-of-county remand homes, register of admissions to Saint Helena's and Saint Nicholas' remand homes, and approved schools after care register, 1933-1965. Please note that access to these files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to staffing, comprising index cards of staff in the Department, 1948-1965. Please note that access to these records is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to case papers of the Public Assistance Department, 1930-1948. Please note that access to these files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department comprising case files of adoptions, 1943-1947. Access to these records is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to foster care, 1948-1965, including indexes to children boarded out; indexes to child protection cases; indexes to foster parents and foster mothers.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Fire Brigade, 1927-1965, including papers relating to the general administration of the service; copies of relevant legislation; Fire Service training school and training courses; papers on fires of special interest, fire prevention and investigation, fire fighting at airports, authority to enter buildings, communications, supply of water for fire fighting, trade union representation and membership of professional bodies; personnel matters including recruitment, retirement, discipline, regulations, working conditions and compensation; Fire Service building programme and management of fire stations, including papers on individual fire stations.

Papers relating to the Ambulance Service including ambulance service development plan, establishment and initial formation of the service, administration, complaints and appreciation from the public, conferences, trade union representation, vehicle purchase and upkeep, staff conditions of service, establishment of ambulance repair depots and agreements for transport of patients.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to finance, 1864-1965, including general papers on a variety of subjects including accounts, audits, estimates, budgets, County stocks, rates, rating and valuation, correspondence, general loans, grants, mortgages, contracts, reports, sale of property, staff salaries, rents, financial regulations, investments, trust funds, borrowing, capital expenditure, war damage, insurance, banking arrangements, housing advances and housing loans.

Papers of the Accounts and General Sub-committee; papers of the Central Purchasing Sub-committee; papers of the Organisation and Method Committee; papers relating to the administration of the Edmonton Latymer Foundation; register of applications to the Local Government Board for consent to borrow loan sanctions; register of applications to the Ministry of Health for consent to borrow loan sanctions; indexes to loan sanctions

Papers relating to rates including correspondence, County rate basis forms of return calculations, revisions of county rate basis, returns by clerks to assessment committees, appeals against rates, calculations for the basis of county rates and revision of county rate basis returns of properties.

Administrative papers of the Finance Department, including office procedures, correspondence, appointment of the County Treasurer and other staff, staff personal files, and superannuation.

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.