LOCAL HEALTH BOARDS RECORDS

Records of Holywell Local Board of Health and Holywell Urban District Council, 1863-1898, including board minutes, 1869-1898; committee minutes, 1864-1886; draft minutes, 1872-1895; declarations, 1876-1895; accounts of Market Hall, 1893-8; specification for Town Hall, 1880; correspondence, 1870-1894; plans, 1864-1874; rate books, 1882-1892; and ledgers, 1863-1897; and Mold Local Board of Health and Mold Urban District Council records, 1859-1895, including board minutes, 1859-1895.

Holywell Local Board ledgers deposited by Holywell U.D.C., Flintshire, 1973.

Local boards of health were established following the Public Health Act 1848 and the Local Government Act 1858, in populous areas not covered by a town vestry or council, or by Improvement Commissioners. They were responsible for most aspects of public health, including street cleaning, sewerage, water supply and highways. Under the Public Health Act 1872, the local boards were incorporated into urban sanitary authorities, together with boroughs and improvement commissions, while rural sanitary authorities covered the remainder. Urban and rural district councils replaced these in 1895. In Flintshire the Mold Local Board of Health was established in 1859, and the Holywell Local Board of Health in 1862. In 1894 they were replaced by Holywell Urban District Council and Mold Urban District Council respectively.

Arranged into two groups: Group One, Holywell Local Board of Health records: board minutes, committee minutes, draft minutes, declarations, market hall, town hall, correspondence, plans, rate books, and ledgers; and Group Two, Mold Local Board of Health records: board minutes, bye-laws, and plans.

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Compiled by Richard Burman for the ANW project and amended by Elizabeth Pettitt of Flintshire Record Office. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Flintshire Record Office, Schedule of Local Health Boards; Powys County Archives Service Website, Local Boards of Health (http://archives.powys.gov.uk/hold/health.html), viewed 9 January 2004.

A hard copy of the catalogue is available in Flintshire Record Office.

Compiled by Richard Burman for the ANW project and amended by Elizabeth Pettitt of Flintshire Record Office. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Flintshire Record Office, Schedule of Local Health Boards; Powys County Archives Service Website, Local Boards of Health (http://archives.powys.gov.uk/hold/health.html), viewed 09 Jan 2004.

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All records deposited at Flintshire Record Office have been retained

Accruals are not expected

The main groups of Holywell and Mold UDC records are Flintshire Record Office, UD/C and UD/D.