Re: National Registration Act 1939
- From: Stanmapstone@xxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:19:06 +0000 (UTC)
In a message dated 14/12/2005 07:56:46 GMT Standard Time,
ng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Sorry Ray, but you have misinterpreted what you were told.
I too have been to Smedley Hydro on a private visit and was shown the same
room as you. What you were looking at was the NHS Central Register which
was compiled from the National Registers before they were destroyed. It
continues on until today!
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>From 'Family Tree Magazine' September 2001.
Quoting a letter from Jon Williams of the National Health Service Central
Register, part of the Office for National Statistics, at Smedley Hydro,
Southport about the Enumerators' books for the 1939 National Registration Scheme.
"You will no doubt be pleased to hear that we still have these books. They
have been held here in Smedley Hydro since 1939. ..... The National Health
Service Central Register for England and Wales was only computerised in 1991 and
up to that time the books were in constant daily use and so they have had a
lot of wear. We have been in discussions with the Public Record Office on how
best to preserve these records and present them for eventual release to the
general public. "
There was also a quote from a letter sent by Brian Philp, the Deputy
Registrar General for Scotland, in the July 2001 issue, part of which stated:
"The enumeration books formed the paper database underpinning the issue of
identity cards, so they were kept up-to-date throughout the war........ North
of the Border the NHS Central Register...... for Scotland has long been a
computerised database, but the wartime books survive in our care. The
information they contain was obtained from the public compulsorily under statute, so we
regard them essentially as if they were the results of a census, and we
store them carefully with a view to their eventual release into the public domain
100 years on from 1939"
Regards Stan Mapstone
www.mapstone.org
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