Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

Identity area

Type of entity

Higher-level Ontario government office (type B)

Authorized form of name

Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1882-1924

      History

      The Provincial Board of Health of Ontario was established on March 10, 1882. At this time, however, health was still considered primarily a municipal rather than provincial matter, and the Provincial Board was an over-seeing body of the many Local Boards. The Board reported to the Lieutenant Governor (1882-1903); the Provincial Secretary (1904-1918); and to the Department of Labour (1919-1924). The Provincial Board of Health was replaced with the Department of Health in 1924.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Provincial Board of Health of Ontario was responsible for promoting and ensuring the general health of the people of the province. This involved the study and use of the vital statistics of the province; conducting sanitary investigations and inquiries regarding causes of disease, especially epidemics; and distributing information to local boards of health.

      Address

      Public Health Act, Statutes of Ontario 1882, Chap. 29

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Dept. of Health. Division of Sanitary Engineering (1920-1957)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA711

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Dept. of Health. Division of Sanitary Engineering is controlled by Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

      Dates of relationship

      1920-1924

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Division of Industrial Hygiene (1920-1966)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA1502

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Division of Industrial Hygiene is controlled by Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

      Dates of relationship

      1920-1924

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of Health. Laboratories Branch (1916-2008)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA1525

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of Health. Laboratories Branch is controlled by Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

      Dates of relationship

      1916-1924

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Division of Maternal and Child Hygiene and Public Health Nursing (1916-1944)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA1532

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Division of Maternal and Child Hygiene and Public Health Nursing is controlled by Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

      Dates of relationship

      1920-1924

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Provincial Board of Health. Division of Venereal Disease Control (1919-1922)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA1745

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Provincial Board of Health. Division of Venereal Disease Control is controlled by Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

      Dates of relationship

      1919-1922

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Division of Preventable Diseases (1922-1939)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA1746

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Division of Preventable Diseases is controlled by Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

      Dates of relationship

      1922-1924

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Dept. of Health (1924-1972)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA37

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Dept. of Health is the successor of Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Central Board of Health (1873-1882)

      Identifier of related entity

      BA28

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Central Board of Health is the predecessor of Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      BA27

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

      Status

      Approved

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          Bishop, Olga. Publications of the Government of Ontario, 1867-1900 (1976)

          MacTaggart, Hazel I. Publications of the Government of Ontario, 1901-1955 (1964)

          Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          R. Anger