Metadata: Ministry of Public Health and Families, Office central d’identification des œuvres sociales et d’assistance
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Belgium
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archives Générales du Royaume
- Postal address:
- Ruisbroekstraat 2-6 / Rue de Ruysbroeck 2-6, 1000 Brussel
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 513 76 80
- Web address:
- http://www.arch.be/
- Email:
- archives.generales@arch.be
- Reference number:
- NAB-Brussels-510-III.0328
- Title:
- Ministry of Public Health and Families, Office central d’identification des œuvres sociales et d’assistance
- Title (official language):
- Ministère de la Santé publique et de la Famille, Office central d’identification des œuvres sociales et d’assistance
- Creator/accumulator:
- FOD Volksgezondheid, Veiligheid van de Voedselketen en Leefmilieu; SPF Santé Publique, Sécurité de la Chaîne Alimentaire et Environnement
- Date(s):
- 1944/1977
- Extent:
- 22.9 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains documents related to the activities of this department and to aided persons, as well as correspondence. The Office issued an official directory of social and welfare institutions in Belgium. From 1957 onwards, files were created concerning the institutions included in this directory. See no. 55, regarding the Service social juif and the Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre (AIVG).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The creation of an autonomous Ministry of Public Health dates back to 1936 and forms the conclusion of a long evolution towards increased state involvement on this matter. Before, several ministries – including the Ministries of the Interior, of Justice, of Industry and Employment – had competences such as the supervision of medicine and public healthcare. In order to harmonise the scattered competences in the field of public health, the ministry was assisted by advisory bodies such as the Interministeriële Commissie voor Sanitaire Actie and the Koninklijke Commissie voor de Volksgezondheid. After a short period as Ministry of Public Health and Provisioning (since May 1940), the ministry was dismantled, only to be re-created in 1944. In the post-war period, the creation of the Bestuur voor Schade aan Personen (‘administration for damage to individuals’) is of particular importance. Following the successive constitutional reforms from 1980 onwards, certain competences were transferred to the different Communities. In 2001, the former Ministry for Social Affairs, Public Health and Environment was split up into the FPS Social Security on the one hand, and the FPS Public Health, Safety of the Food Chain and Environment on the other. (K. Velle & F. Strubbe, “De FOD Volksgezondheid, Veiligheid van de Voedselketen en Leefmilieu”, in P. van den Eeckhout & G. Vanthemsche (ed.), Bronnen voor de studie van het hedendaagse België 19de – 21e eeuw. Tweede herziene en uitgebreide uitgave, Brussel, Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis, 2009, pp. 435-451.)
- Finding aids:
- Unpublished: Inventaire des archives de l’office d’identification des œuvres sociales et d’assistance (1914-1977).
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
