Includes details of poor persons suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
Note, this volume contains only three entries.
Includes details of poor persons suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
Note, this volume contains only three entries.
Comprises minutes of committee meetings of the York Poor Law Union (including the York Out-Relief Union, the Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union, the Flaxton Out-Relief Union and the Escrick Out-Relief Union); and from 1930 the Public Assistance Committee.
Also includes the minutes of the Nuisance Removal Committee and the York Rural Sanitary Authority; and minutes of organisations administered by the York Poor Law Union including the York Charities Register Committee and Hodgson's Charity Committee.
Comprises records relating to the admission, discharge and maintenance of inmates of the York Workhouse, which was later known at the City Institution and then The Grange). Relief granted within the workhouse was termed 'indoor relief' as opposed to 'outdoor relief' which was granted to the poor in their own homes (i.e.outside the Workhouse).
Also includes records relating to the staffing and administration of the Workhouse.
Comprises 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.
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.
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.
Comprises records relating to the administration of the poor rate. The poor rate was a local tax on the yearly value of a property, levied by the parish. The money collected from poor rates was used to help finance relief for the poor as well as the infrastructure of administering that relief.
From 1837 to 1925 the York Poor Law Union was responsible for administering the poor rate, and from time to time other rates (such as the lighting rate).
Comprises records relating to the civil registration of births, deaths and marriages. Poor law unions were used as registration districts from 1837, when civil registration was introduced.
Includes the outgoing letterbooks of the Superintendent Registrar; and correspondence between the Superintendent Registrar of York and the Registrar General, London.
Comprises records relating to legal cases pursued by or involving the York Poor Law Union.
Includes legal case papers, summonses, warrants, orders and inquests.
Comprises records relating to the administration of relief granted to the poor in their own home (i.e. outside the Workhouse, hence the term 'outdoor relief').
Includes application and report books, weekly outdoor relief lists, relief order books, relief granted on loan, relieving officers' receipt and expenditure books, relief in kind books and records relating to medical relief.
Comprises records relating to the collection of relief from liable individuals.
The York Poor Law Union (and later the Public Assistance Committee) attempted to recover money spent on relief that had been granted to the poor. They ordered individuals - usually liable relatives - to contribute towards the cost of maintaining those in receipt of poor relief. The collection of relief was administered by the Collecting Committee.
Includes order books, notices to contribute, payment ledgers, receipt and payment books, registers of insurance benefits and adjourned cases, claim made to the Ministry of Health, and Collectors' accounts and correspondence.
See also PLU/13/1 for legal cases relating to recovery of relief.
Comprises records relating to the general administration of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Committee.
Includes correspondence; statistics and returns; staffing records; government orders; and publications and other printed material.
Comprises financial records relating to the general administration of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Committee.
Includes financial statements; general ledgers; parochial ledgers; treasurers' ledgers; treasurers' receipt and payment books; invoices; petty cash books; receipts; and other account books.
For financial records relating specifically to outdoor relief see PLU/3/5
For financial records relating specifically to the collection of relief see PLU/5/10
Includes records relating to governance of the Union; indoor relief (workhouse relief); outdoor relief; the collection of relief; settlement and removal; child welfare; hospitals and asylums; public health; assessment and rating; civil registration; the general administration of the Union (including staffing); financial records; legal case paper and summonses; and records relating to properties and buildings owned or tenanted by the Union.
Many of the records relating to indoor relief and outdoor relief contain information on individuals.
Includes records of the York Public Assistance Committee, which was responsible for the administration of the Poor Law from 1930-1948.
Zonder titelIncludes admission and discharge books for the inmates of the York Workhouse (later called the City Institution and The Grange); admission and discharge books for the casual (wandering) poor; and porters' admission and discharge books.
Admission and discharge books kept by the Porters' of The Grange.
Includes name; age; occupation; religion; residence; name and address of nearest relative; date of admission and discharge; and how discharged.
Registers of accounts relating to the administration of the City Institution/The Grange (formerly the workhouse)
Accounts for the farming of pigs
Comprises accounts, inventories, registers of artices required by the Master; and register of visitors.
Records admission and discharges of patients/inmates along with diagnoses
Includes name; diagnosis; date admitted; date discharged and where discharged to.
Entries listed in alphabetical order.
Includes name; birth year; gender; date of admission; from whom received; some volumes also include district admitted from. Note that not all fields are necessarily completed.
Details of accounts credited and payments to the treasurer
List of visitors to The Grange open days on 14th and 16th July 1958
Registers of property belonging to patients at The Grange. Includes name; date of admission and discharge; list of property and/or cash; and who received the property.
Includes small notebook recording number of meals.
Includes name; age; religion; date admitted; date discharged and diagnosis. Entries listed in chronological order of admission.
Comprises official reports from workhouse staff and statistical returns for the workhouse
Comprises York Poor Law Union year books; notices of meetings; newspaper cuttings books; and publications used in the administration of the poor law.
Indexed
Ministry of Health publication.
Includes patients' registers; records relating to lunatics; and relief for patients in sick wards. Records are primarily from the mid-twentieth century.
Includes books and information pamphlets used in the administration of the Poor Law. These publications were consulted by officers of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Committee.
List of patients waitng for admission into The Grange Hospital. Includes date; name; age; if currently in another hospital; date of notification; home address; diagnosis; informant; telephone number; and outcome.
Includes bundle of correspondence regarding the potential admission of individual patients.
Detials garden produce received and sold
Indexed
Comprises statistical information only.
Registers recording deaths in York Workhouse (later called the City Institution and The Grange).
Includes name; date of death; age; parish/ward/address; cause of death; and where buried.
Details of accounts credited and payments to the finance officer
Contains lists of articles and suppliers
Comprises registers recording births and deaths within the York Workhouse
From 1869 Masters of workhouses were required to record the religious affiliation of inmates in Creed Registers so that appropriate measures could be taken in the event of illness or death.
Details recorded in each register vary over time but usually include: name; date of admission; religious creed; name of informant; and in some cases date of discharge or death. Registers from 1906 record occupation and address of relation or friend. Registers from 1908 include 'place admitted from' or 'where slept last night' in each entry.
At the outbreak of war in 1939 the infirmary of the old workhouse was equipped to become an Emergency Medical Services Hospital. The infirmary received 77 non-civilian patients in 1939, 623 in 1940 and 434 in 1941. Creed Registers from 1939-1941 therefore record admissions details of military war casualties (see refs PLU/2/3/17-19)
From 1942 emergency medical patients were treated at the new hospital which had opened next door to the infirmary.
Entries are either listed in rough alphabetical order or indexed.
Includes date; names of individuals admitted; names of individuals discharged; further comments included for some cases.
Includes name; office; date of birth; date commenced employment; date left employment; andhome address. Listed in rough alphabetical order.
Statistical returns concerning numbers of patients and staff
Only first four pages of volume used. Comprises typed notes regarding the ability to train certain patients (primarily children) with learning disabilities.
Includes name; office; date commenced employment; and date left employment. Listed in rough alphabetical order
Comprises official reports from staff at the City Institution (formerly the workhouse)
Includes reports of visits to The Grange by the Commissioner of the Board of Control.
Comprises registers of staff and registers of leave
See also PLU/11/3/5 for Workhouse staff wages receipt books.
Includes name; date of admission and discharge; class of patient; and number of days maintained. Also small bundle of loose administrative papers.
Admission and discharge books kept by the Master of City Institution/The Grange (previously York Workhouse).
The terms 'vagrants', 'casuals' or 'the casual poor' were used in reference to individuals who were homeless, destitute and wandered (tramped) from place to place.
Entries include name; age; gender; occupation; place of sleeping the previous night; date of admission and date of discharge; next destination; in some cases the task performed to earn relief is recorded.
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Includes name; date of admission and discharge; age; results of examination on admission and discharge; and institution referred to.
Lists name; date admitted; and items registered.
includes a bundle of loose receipts for patient documents.
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index.
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Includes name of inmate; reason for seclusion; means of restraint and certificate of medical officer
No index. Only four pages of register used.
Filed chronologically
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index. See also PLU/2/11/9
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically
Comprises punishment book, register of detention and register of restraint of inmates/patients
Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence related to the administration of the institution.
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index
Filed chronologically but includes partial index