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Description: | This committee has its origins in the Health of Towns Committee (established 1850) which became the Sanitary Committee in 1859. In 1894 the Sanitary Committee and the Team Committee merged to become the Health Committee.
The National Health Service Act, 1946 undertook wide ranging reform of the provision of health services. Local authority hospitals were transferred to the Ministry of Health. Other services such as maternity and child welfare, mental deficiency, lunacy, midwifery, ambulances, vaccination and immunisation remained under the control of the local authority. The local authority were also to undertake new functions such as the provision and maintenance of health centres, health visitors, home nursing, prevention of illness and special domestic health services. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Sanitation Health policy Health services | Temporal: | 1894 - 1974 | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | ; Wolverhampton Borough Council; 1848 - 2000 | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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