Includes name; admitting institution; date admitted; date discharged; name of approved society and membership number; amount recovered; and other observations.
Note: not all fields are completed for each entry.
Includes name of case; and whether in institution, discharged, or deceased.
Comprises correspondence and claim forms. Includes forms which state name and address of person in receipt of relief.
Comprises records concerning the settlement and removal of paupers under the York Poor Law Union and the Public Assistance Committee.
In order to have the right to claim poor relief a person had to have the right of settlement in a parish/ward in the area in which they were currently residing. Those who did not have the right of settlement could be forcibly removed.
Includes registers and accounts of non-resident and non-settled poor; and registers of removal orders and settlement enquiries.
Comprises registers of non-resident and non-settled poor chargeable to the York Poor Law Union, and after 1930 the York Public Assistance Committee.
Non-resident poor refers to individuals receiving poor relief who were legally settled in York but residing elsewhere.
Non -settled poor refers to individuals receiving relief who were living in York but legally settled elsewhere.
Non-resident poor appear at the front of the ledger; non-settled poor appear at the back of the ledger. Includes name of individual/family receiving relief; parish of settlement; union or parish advancing relief; class of pauper; and amount of relief.
Includes name of individual receiving relief; number of children; address; amount of relief; council advancing relief; and, in some cases, additional remarks.
Includes name of individual receiving relief; year of birth; address; amount of relief; council advancing relief; and, in some cases, additional remarks.
Also includes a small bundle of typed notes and correspondence relating to administration of relief inserted in front of volume.
Includes name of individual receiving relief, address, amount and period of relief, and council chargeable.
Includes name of individual receiving relief, amount and period of relief, and council chargeable.
Correspondence and accounts for non-settled poor. Includes name of individual receiving relief, council chargeable, and amount of relief granted.
Comprises removal orders received and obtained, and settlement enquiries pursued by the York Public Assistance Committee
Register of orders obtained by the York Public Assistance Committee. These orders relate to individuals who were living in York but were legally settled elsewhere.
Includes name, type of order, council of settlement, type of relief (e.g. whether institutional or out-relief), date of order, date of expiration and, in some cases, further remarks.
Register of orders obtained by the York Public Assistance Committee. These orders relate to individuals living in York and receiving relief but legally settled elsewhere.
Includes name, type of order, council of settlement, type of relief (e.g. whether institutional or out-relief), date of order, date of expiration and, in some cases, further remarks.
Register of removal orders received from other councils by the York Public Assistance Committee. These orders relate to inviduals legally settled in York but residing elsewhere and receiving relief from other councils.
Includes name, type of order, council sending the order, type of relief received (e.g. institutional or out-relief), date of order, and, in some cases, further remarks.
List of cases referred for investigation into their legal place of settlement.
Includes date referred, name, type of relief received (e.g. institutional, mental hospital, or out-relief), and place of settlement.
Also includes loose case papers for the removal of an individual in 1938.
Includes correspondence, primarily between Poor Law Unions, relating to settlement cases that were not accepted by the York Union. Correspondence may include significant biographical details for some cases.
Comprises records concerning the welfare of children who came into the care of the York Poor Law Union and later the Pubic Assistance Committee.
Includes records relating to apprenticeships; registers of children boarded out and in farm service; register for enforcing school attendance; and correspondence concerning the boarding out of children.
Records of children placed in apprenticeships while under the care of the York Board of Guardians.
Comprises a register of apprentices and an apprentice indenture.
List of children indentured to trades by the Board of Guardians. Includes date of indenture (apprenticeship); name of apprentice; gender; age; parents' names; residence of parents; parish; name of person training the apprentice; trade and residence of tradesman; term of apprenticeship; and fee.
Apprenticeship indenture for Henry Hardcastle, apprenticed by the York Guardians to William Nelson, tailor.
Comprises registers of children under the care of the York Board of Guardians and later the Public Assistance Committtee.
Includes registers of children who have been boarded-out with foster parents in private homes; registers of children in certified schools and other institutions; and registers of children in farm service.
See also minutes of the Children's/Boarding Out Committee ref PLU/1/6 and PLU/1/8
Includes name of child, name and location of employer; and payments for wages, clothing and other necessities. Printed index available.
Register of children under the supervision of the York Union Children's Committee. The majority of this volume lists children boarded out and in certified schools. Only a small number of entries appear for adopted and apprenticed children.
Includes name of child; age when first boarded out; gender; religion; status of child (e.g. if an orphan); date of boarding out; name and address of foster parents and other details.
Includes name of child; name of foster parent; residence of foster parent; date of boarding out; relationship of child to foster parents; amount of relief granted to foster parents and additional remarks.
Includes name and address of person receiving infants; number of infants; name of infants; age of infants and date received.
Comprises the Relieving Officer's reports on children boarded out. Includes name of child; age of child; name and address of foster parent; and other details regarding the welfare of the child.
Comprises the Relieving Officer's reports on children boarded out. Includes name of child; age of child; name and address of foster parent; and other details regarding the welfare of the child.
Flaxton Out-Relief UnionIncludes name of child; age of child; name and address of foster parent; date boarded out; and cost per week.
Includes name of institution; name of child; date of birth; date admitted; further remarks and accounts. Indexed.
Register of proceedings against parents/guardians of children who failed to attend school.
Includes name of child; age of child; name of parent; residence; occupation; previous school; date of service of notice; officer's notes and other remarks.
Flaxton Out-Relief UnionCorrespondence relating to the boarding out of children in foster homes and the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933
See also minutes of the Children's/Boarding Out Committee ref PLU/1/6
Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence as well as some returns to the Ministry of Education
Public Assistance Committee | Boarding-Out CommitteeIncludes correspondence and circulars relating to the implementation of the Act.
Public Assistance Committee | Boarding-Out CommitteeCorrespondence relating to particular cases of children boarded out.
Public Assistance Committee | Boarding-Out CommitteeAgreement between the Boarding-Out Committee of the Whitby Union and the Boarding-Out Committee of the York Union that the Whitby Committee would supervise homes and parents of two children boarded-out by the York Committee in the Whitby area.
York Poor Law Union | Boarding-Out CommitteeComprises records relating to the maintenance of pauper patients in hospitals and asylums.
Includes records relating to the City Fever Hospital at Yearsley Bridge; the York City Mental Hospital at Naburn; and Grove House, a private asylum at Acomb.
Records concerning maintenace of poor patients at York City Fever Hospital at Yearsley Bridge
Agreement between the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of the City of York (i.e. the Corporation)and the York Out-Relief Union, that the City Fever Hospital for treating infectious diseases shall treat pauper and destitute patients at a cost of 1 guinea per person per week, to be paid by the York Out-Relief Union.
Correspondence between the clerk of the York Out-Relief Union and the Town Clerk regarding the payment of costs for treating pauper and destitute patients at the City Fever Hospital. Includes lists of patients.
Includes name of patient; date admitted; date discharged; and in some cases further remarks. Includes two loose items: a list of mental patients for whom there are no files and a list of patients maintained by other county authorities.
Lists patients in alphabetical order by surname.
See also Returns of Pauper Lunatics Y/HEA/6/1/1
Comprises notices of deaths and one notice of admission directed to the Clerk to Visitors, Lunatic Asylums
Grove House Acomb was a private asylum.
Includes admission details for Grove House, Acomb and medical certificates
Notice of death at Grove House, Acomb
Notice of death at Grove House, Acomb
Notice of death at Grove House, Acomb
Comprises records relating to the preventative public health measures administered by the York Poor Law Union.
Includes vaccination registers; register of tuberculosis notifications; and correspondence of the York Rural Sanitary Authority.
Registers of smallpox vaccinations compiled by Vaccination Officers of the York Poor Law Union using extracts from the Registrar's Registers of Births.
Some volumes include inserted correspondence relating to individual vaccination cases.
Includes registers for the City and Rural Districts of the York Poor Law Union.
Registers of smallpox vaccinations kept by the Vaccination Officers (District Medical Officers) of the York Poor Law Union.
Details for each registered child include: date of birth; place of birth; child's name; parents' names; address; and father's occupation. Further columns record the date of vaccination or whether vaccination was not carried.
Volumes PLU/8/1/1/18 -PLU/8/1/1/27 include inserted correspondence relating to individual vaccination cases. This correspondence primarily concerns notices of vaccination and/or notes from parents detailing reasons why vaccination should be delayed or is not necessary.
NOTE: volumes 8-18 are MISSING as at Nov 2016
Includes file of 4 envelopes of correspondence regarding individual vaccinations
Includes file of 20 envelopes of correspondence regarding individual vaccinations
Includes file of 12 envelopes of correspondence regarding individual vaccinations
Includes file of 19 envelopes of correspondence regarding individual vaccinations
Includes file of 27 envelopes of correspondence regarding individual vaccinations
Includes file of 26 envelopes of correspondence regarding individual vaccinations
Includes file of 22 envelopes of correspondence regarding individual vaccinations
Includes file of 22 envelopes of correspondence regarding individual vaccinations
Includes file of 36 envelopes of correspondence regarding individual vaccinations
Includes file of 30 envelopes of correspondence regarding individual vaccinations
Registers of smallpox vaccinations kept by the Vaccination Officers (District Medical Officer) of the York Poor Law Union.
Details for each registered child include: date of birth; place of birth; child's name; parents' names; address; and father's occupation. Further columns record the date of vaccination and whether it was successful.
Volumes PLU/8/1/2/17-PLU/8/1/2/26 include inserted correspondence relating to individual vaccination cases. This correspondence primarily concerns notices of vaccination and/or notes from parents detailing reasons why vaccination is delayed or not necessary.