An Assessment of the County Review Process in Hampshire 1929–1932

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Roger Ottewill
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Review Process ◽  
County Council ◽  
Rural District ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
Second Tier ◽  
Local Opposition

Under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1929, Hampshire County Council along with other administrative counties was required to review the boundaries of the second and third tier authorities within its borders. As well as being a time-consuming process, it could also be a particularly contentious one. In the event, Hampshire used the opportunity to reduce significantly the number of relatively small second tier authorities, particularly rural district councils, and to adjust boundaries which sometimes gave rise to spirited local opposition. The arguments used by the County Council to justify changes and those resisting them, many of which were aired at an Inquiry conducted by a Ministry of Health Inspector at Winchester in late 1931, are considered.

Hinterland Politics

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. W. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
County Council ◽  
Rural District ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Distinguishing Features

The Royal Commission on Local Government in England argued that size and proximity to an urban centre were important factors in explaining the differing degrees of parish political activity. This paper examines in more detail the reasons for the differing degrees of activity drawing upon my study in the Oxford area for illustrative examples. It must be emphasized at the very outset that the main objective of this paper is to suggest reasons for the variations in activity and not to compare the degrees of political activity in the Oxford area. In particular, I argue that proximity to an urban centre (location within the immediate hinterland) is more important than size and that there are three distinguishing features associated with location within the immediate hinterland. The distinguishing features are the rapidly growing parishes (size); the high expectations of suburban residents with regard to the standard of service provision (expectations); and the under-representation of the immediate hinterland on the County Council and the Rural District Councils (under-representation).

The Police and Government

1970 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 190-190
Author(s):  
Laurence Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
County Council

We have invited Mr. Laurence Welsh, a former administrative officer with the London County Council, and a former secretary of its Staff Association, who writes for several local government papers, to contribute a monthly feature on police topics in central and local governmental circles.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social Accountability Mechanisms on Fiscal Management Challenges Facing Goromonzi Rural District Council, Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Trust Madhovi
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Social Accountability ◽  
Rural District ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Fiscal Management ◽  
District Council ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the impact of social accountability mechanisms on the fiscal management challenges facing local government bodies in Zimbabwe. The paper hypothesises that there is a positive relationship between the use of social accountability mechanisms or tools by local authorities and the effectiveness of their fiscal management policies to mobilize more revenue for service delivery. In this study, both quantitative and qualitative methods are adopted in gathering and analysing data from central government officials, Goromonzi Rural District Council employees and members of the public. The results of the study reveal that the local government body faces a number of fiscal management challenges that include a shrinking tax base, non-payment of taxes, resistance to successive budgets; lack of implementation; lack of monitoring and evaluation. Council has implemented participatory budgeting to deal with some of these challenges. While results show a significant improvement in tax collection, some of the challenges have persisted. The paper proposes some recommendations useful to central government, policy makers, civil society organisations, local government officials and the general public. The paper manages to demonstrate that the implementation of social accountability tools can have positive impacts on the fiscal management challenges facing local governments. 

A Review of Seven Years' Malarial Therapy in General Paralysis

1932 ◽  
Vol 78 (323) ◽  
pp. 843-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. D. Nicol
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
County Council ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
Mental Hospitals

Shortly after the introduction of therapeutic malaria into this country, the Ministry of Health and the Board of Control, in consultation with the London County Council Mental Hospitals Department, established a special centre for this treatment at Horton Mental Hospital. A separate villa in the hospital grounds was set apart for the work, and, through the interest, advice and help of Col. S. P. James, M.D., F.R.S., of the Ministry of Health, a laboratory was equipped and arrangements were made for the supply of malarial infective material to all parts of Great Britain. The work was begun in April, 1925, and during the seven years that have elapsed since then, 200 cases have been treated. These cases are all women, drawn from the various London County Mental Hospitals; recently, however, an annexe has been added to the centre, and facilities are now available for treating men also.

The Maintenance of Pauper Lunatics

1897 ◽  
Vol 43 (182) ◽  
pp. 672-673
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
County Council ◽  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
Early Age ◽  
The West ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cumberland County ◽  
Definite Answer ◽  
Lunatic Asylums ◽  
The Government

The President of the Local Government Board received a deputation from the County Councils Association in reference to the growing burden imposed upon the rates by the increase of the number of persons confined in lunatic asylums. The deputation consisted of Sir John Hibbert, Lord Thring, Mr. Hobhouse, M.P., Sir E. Edgeumbe (Dorset), Mr. M. F. Blackiston (Clerk to the Staffordshire County Council), Mr. F. C. Hulton (Clerk to the Lancashire County Council), Mr. C. B. Hodgson (Clerk to the Cumberland County Council), Mr. Trevor Edwards (Solicitor to the West Riding County Council), and the Rev C. Royds, Mr. J. Brierley, Mr. B. Carver, and Mr. T. Scholfield, members of the Lancashire Asylums Board. The deputation recommended that the grant of 4s. a week at present given to Boards of Guardians to pay for pauper lunatics in County Asylums, Registered Hospitals, and Licensed Houses should also be given for chronic pauper lunatics (whom they defined as harmless lunatics), who are maintained in workhouse wards under special regulations and to the satisfaction of the Commissioners in Lunacy; that, as it is not desirable that idiots (idiots and imbeciles from birth or early age) should be treated in a lunatic asylum, the 4s. grant should, wherever idiots are kept at the public expense, be payable in regard to such idiots to the authority maintaining them to the satisfaction of the Commissioners in Lunacy; that each County Council should be required to appoint visitors of those idiots in respect of whom the 4s. grant is made, and who are kept in places other than lunatic asylums; and that it is not desirable to express an opinion on the question of extending the 4s. grant to idiots boarded out or maintained at home. Mr. Chaplin, in reply, said he was not prepared to give a definite answer as to whether he could advise the Government to bring in a Bill to give effect to the recommendations. He required time to consider the matter more fully, and especially to enquire how the Boards of Guardians throughout the country would be affected if the proposals of the County Councils Association became law.

American Psychiatry and its Practical Bearings on the Application of Recent Local Government and Mental Treatment Legislation, Including a Description of the Author's Participation in the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene, Washington, D.C., May 5–10, 1930

1930 ◽  
Vol 76 (314) ◽  
pp. 456-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Lord
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Mental Hygiene ◽  
County Council ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Psychiatric Institutions ◽  
American Psychiatry ◽  
Mental Treatment

Dr. Petrie's paper is mainly descriptive of American psychiatric institutions, and deals only briefly in its conclusion with his impressions of American psychiatry in its various fields. My paper, however, deals principally with the latter subject and avoids the former as much as possible. It is also my duty to report on my mission as the representative of the London County Council and of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association at the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene.

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