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Medical Inspection Sub-Committee

Set up at Education Committee 6 Dec 1909 to have a total of eight members, of which four were to be nominated from the Education Committee and four from the Attendance and School Accommodation Sub-Committee, to cope with all matters medical

Croydon Education Office: School Portfolios

These files contain papers relating to individual schools, including statistical returns for the year from schools, copies of inspectors reports, papers relating to new buildings, correspondence between the Education Office and the school and government departments regarding the school.

Queens Road Homes: Admission and Discharge Registers

Names are entered in a loosely alphabetical order. Details include the name and address of a friend or relation. The start date for each volume is the approximate date at which it appears to have begun in use. However, most of the volumes record a number of earlier admissions, presumably copied from older volumes. There is also some other duplication between volumes.

Local Board of Health: Rate Books

Croydon Local Board of Health was formed in September 1849, under the terms of the Public Health Act 1848. Its powers were extended under the Local Government Act 1858. It was responsible for matters relating to water supply and sanitation, and also acted as the highway and planning authority. It superseded the Improvement Commissioners, the Board for the Repair of Highways, and some functions of the Parish Vestry. As the more built-up areas of the parish benefited from more services than the remoter parts, some rates were levied in those areas only. The two areas affected were the 'Special District (ie Croydon town centre); and 'Norwood Special District. The parish as a whole was known as the 'General District; but from 1858, this was sometimes split into 'General District 1 (the town centre), and 'General District 2 (the outlying parts), where different levels of rate were demanded.

General Purposes Rates - Under an Act of 1829 (10 Geo IV), Croydon was authorised to collect rates for 'lighting, watching and improving the town of Croydon . . . and for providing lodging for the judges at the Assizes . . . and for other purposes relating thereto. These rates were sometimes known as 'Lighting Rates until the late 1830s, and afterwards as 'General Purposes Rates. Only the town of Croydon (and not the outlying parts of the parish) appears to have been rated.

Highways Rates - Croydon collected these rates under an Act of 1813/14 (54 Geo III), for the 'amendment and preservation of the public highways within England.

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