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Worktown Collection (1937-40)

Box 37: Byelaws, police, public health

37/A Byelaws and the courts

Paper folder containing: "List of Byelaws in force", ts/ms, 4pp, 13.7.38 (no source cited); Observer accounts; "Police Court", ts, 7pp, the role of the police court in the judiciary system; "Petty Offences in Bolton", ms, 1p, HP; "Bolton County Court", ms, 13pp, 16.2.38, NC, details of court cases

Paper folder containing observer accounts: "Motor Car Offences", ms, 14pp, details of court cases; Index cards (18), ms/ts, references to police, legislation and list of indictable offences

Paper folder containing observer accounts: "West Ward Labour Club Police Raid", ms, 2pp, 6.11.37, AB; "West Ward Labour Club prosecution", ms, 8pp, 17.12.37, EB; "West Ward Labour Club trial", ms, 12pp, 17.12.[37], WH

Paper folder containing: Charts (9) details of drunk and disorderly cases April 1937-December 1937

Paper folder containing observer accounts: "Borough Police Court", ms, 12pp, 24.3.38, BR; "Borough Police Court", ts/ms, 7pp, 5.4.38, LT; "Borough Police Court", ts, 9pp, 7.4.38, BB; "Borough Police Court", ms, 6pp, 7.4.38, LT; "Borough Police Court", ts, 8.4.38, LT; "Court of Summary Jurisdiction", ms, 15pp, 5.4.38, HP, copy of official court list attached; "Borough Court Bolton Juveniles", ms, 8pp, [6.4.38], HP, copy of official court list; attached; "Bolton Police Court", ms, 21pp, 7.4.38, HP, copy of official court list attached; "Bolton Police Court", ms, 8.4.38, 20pp, HP, copy of official court list attached

Misc, ms, 3pp

37/B The Police

H3>Booklets (5), Chief Constable's Annual Report to the Watch Committee, 31.12.35-31.12.38, (two copies for 1937)

Paper folder containing observer accounts: "Police Sports", ts, 3pp, 12.6.[37], THH; "Law Breakers at the Police sports", ts, 3pp, 12.6.37, PNH; Programme "Eighteenth Annual Amateur Athletic Sports", 12.6.; Misc, ts, 3pp

Paper folder containing observer accounts: "Police in Bolton streets", ms, 3pp, 9.4.38, HP; "Police Activities", ms, 2pp, 13.4.38, HP

37/C Health

Booklets: (2) Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health, 1936 and 1937

Booklet: The Bolton Royal Infirmary Annual Report, year ending 31.12.36

Leaflet: "A First Class Investment", about contributory hospital scheme

Observer account: "Health Department", ms, 1p, HP, venereal disease returns for 1937 (no official source cited); "Royal Infirmary", ts, 3pp, 15.9[?], BB, visit

37/D Birth, death and disease statistics

Charts (5) "Occurrence of disease and death for 1901-1905", (printed - no official source cited)

Charts (4) "Comparative View of Principal Causes of Death, 1901-1904", printed - no official source cited

Graph, "Phthisis - Deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in previous years", printed - no official source cited

"Consumption per head", index card, ms, consumption of alcohol for 1897; 1900 and 1922, no official source cited

"Cirrhosis of the liver", index card, ms, interview with Dr Galloway, Medical Officer of Health,

Bolton

"Suicides", index card, ms, graph of suicide rate, no official source cited Chart, ms, 3pp, "Demographic, health and employment statistics, 1937-1914", no official source cited

37/E Baths, wash houses and swimming baths

Booklet: Moss Street Baths and Wash Houses, opened 22.10.24

Booklet: Rothwell Street Wash-house and Baths, opened 11.2.31

Paper folder containing observer accounts: "Swimming in Bolton", ts, 5pp, a report; "Swimming Baths Bridgeman St", ms, 7pp, 5.4.38, HP; "Swimming Baths, Moss St", ms, 4pp, 5.5.[?], THH

Letter from [BFD], Bolton Field Naturalists Society to [Ian], ms, 1p, 3.4.36, about the decline of interest in swimming

Index cards (4), ms/ts, reference to swimming baths

Envelope with brief notes

37/F Public health

Observer accounts: "Dr Galloway Public Health Officer", ms, 10pp, 20.12.[?], WLW, interview; "Further questions asked to M.O.H", ms, 5pp, 21.12.[?], WLW; "The Health of Bolton", ms, 14pp, WLW

Letter from R.M. Galloway, Medical Health Officer, to THH, ts, 1p, 29.12.37, agreeing to arrange a meeting with the Sanitary Inspector, the Food Inspector and the Vaccination Officer

37/G Public health

Paper folder containing: "Public Health", ts/ms, 15pp, draft report; "John Boyd Orr Food Health & Income (Macmillan 1936)", ms, 2pp, a quote and statistics

Paper folder containing: "Tour of Public Health Dept.", ts, 7pp, 20.12.[?], THH

"Extracts from Handbook of Public Health Department 1932", ms, index cards (8), HP

Index cards (19), ms, references to health related matters

37/H St John's Ambulance Brigade

Observer account: "St. John's Ambulance", ms, 3pp, 10.7.[?], WH

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