Books recording routine inspections and inspections in response to complaints of unsanitary conditions in houses or other premises. Conditions inspected include privies, air quality, keeping of animals, offensive trades, and drains. Also record inspections of premises for overcrowding, and for sanitary conditions at the home accommodation of patients with infectious diseases. Indexed by street name at the start or back of each volume.
Books recording inspections of nuisance complaints affecting dwellings. Nuisances inspected include privies, air quality, keeping of animals, offensive trades, and drains. Also records inspections of premises for overcrowding, and for sanitary conditions at the home accommodation of patients with infectious diseases. A small number of volumes include plans and this is indicated in the relevant item descriptions.
Indexed by street name at the start of each volume.
Inspections and reports on drains, sanitary facilities and food hygiene.
Inspection records of the Sanitary Inspector, Department of Health. Records inspections of insanitary conditions in houses (including inadequate sanitary facilities and drainage); inspections of common lodgings houses; food sampling and analysis; and slaughterhouse and meat inspections. Books from 1933 onwards includes reports of overcrowding. Indexed by street
Comprises statistical graphs.
Ad hoc reports by the Medical Officer of Health in response to particular events, primarily the outbreaks of infectious diseases.
Reports of the Medical Officer of Health to the Urban Sanitary Committee and later the Health Committee. Reports on average were fortnightly but could be more or less regular. Incudes notifications to the Town Clerk of cases of infectious diseases.
Comprises statistical information on the health of school children in York and reports on health services provided.
Includes annual reports and special reports of the Medical Officer of Health in bound volumes. The volumes also include annual reports of various other officers assisting the Medical Officer of Health, including: the Chief Sanitary Inspector; the Inspector of Nuisances, the Public Analyst, the Canal Boats Inspector; the School Medical Officers; and from 1930 the Chief Medical Officer (Public Assistance).
Loose copies of annual reports from the Medical Officer of Health. Some years include reports from the Tuberculosis Officer, the Inspector of Nuisances, the Public Analyst, Chief Sanitory Inspector, Medical Officer (Public Assistance), Canal Boats Inspector and Tuberculosis Crusade Committtee.
Sem títuloComprises printed leaflets and other promotional literature relating to public health educations.
Comprises records relating to promotional events and health exhibitions
Comprises stand alone images relating to health education and health promotion. Includes lantern slides, glass plate negatives and photographs.
Diaries of staff involved in deliveries and pickups of patients, food and other items. Also records some cases of insect control.
Comprises records relating to staffing matters (including appointments)within the York Health Department. See also Y/ADM/5/13 for application and appointment files.
Town Clerk's correspondence files concerning the Health Committee and matters of public health. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence. See also Y/HEA/1/2
The Town Clerk's files relating to health and health services in York. Files comprise correspondence and associated papers. See also Y/HEA/1/3
Legal cases pursued under the Public Health Acts and bye-laws.
General administrative papers of the Medical Officer of Health
Copies of printed committee resolutions and proceedings, and minutes and reports of York Council. These copies were compile by the Chief Public Health Inspector and include annotations next to items that relate to public health.
Comprises papers relating to the planning, organisation and delivery of the Royal Sanitary Institute Congress in York.
Comprises correspondence and associated papers of the Health Committee. An alphabetical index to the files is included in first box. Files have been weeded prior to deposit in the archive.
Includes:
E48: Book of Subsidy granted to King Henry VIII and contributed by Persons, Corporations, Fraternities, Gilds etc, according to certain values, 1547-8;
E49 Book of Subsidy granted to King Edward VI, 1547-8 (bound with E48);
E50: Book of Subsidy granted to King Edward VI and Elizabeth I, 1550-1559;
E51: Book of Subsidy granted to Elizabeth I, 1563-1582.
E59: Assessment on the City and Ainsty, 1582;
E59a: Assessments on the City and Ainsty, 1585-1600
General subsidies and assessments. For specific military subsidies and assessments please see Y/ORD/4/2.
The chamberlain's vouchers are the original tradesmen receipts, bills or invoices. The often contain greater detail of work done than the formal accounts and rolls.
1719-1722
1723-1724
1725-1728
1729-1730
1731-1733
1733-1736
1737-1739
1739
1740-1741
1741-1742, 1744-1745
1744-1745, 1746-1747
1748-1750
1750-1751, 1753-1754, 1754-1755
1756-1757, 1758-1759
1760-1761
1761-1764
1765-1766, 1766-1767
1767-1770
1769-1770, 1772-1773
1773-1776
1776-1782
1784-1785, 1787-1788
1789, 1792-1793, 1795
1796-1797, 1798
1799-1801
1804-1808, 1810
1811, 1814, 1818
1820-1822
1824-1826
1828-1829
1832-1834
1834-1835
The account books were the informal day to day version of the corporation accounts. Incomplete series.
1 (1446)
1A (1449 and 1480)
2 (1520-1525)
3 (1526-1528, 1535, 1538)
4 (1542, 1554)
5 (1559, 1565, 1584)
6 (1585, 1587, 1588)
7 (1591, 1593)
8 (1594, 1596)
9 (1597-1598)
10 (1599, 1600)
11 (1602-1603)
12 (1605-1606)
13 (1607-1608, 1610)
14 (1611-1613)
15 (1614-1616)
16 (1617-1619)
17 (1620, 1621, 1623)
18 (1624)
19 (1625-1627)
20 (1629-1632)
21 (1633-1636)
22 (1637-1639)
23 (1640-1645)
24 (1646-1651)
25 (1653-1654, 1656, 1658, 1661, 1663, 1664-1665)
25A (1655)
26 (1666, 1668, 1671-1672, 1679)
27 (1680, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1686, 1687)
28 (1688, 1692, 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696)
29 (1697-1702)
30 (1703-1709)
31 (1710-1714)
32 (1715-1721)
33 (1722-1728)
34 (1729-1733)
35 (1734-1738)
36 (1734-1738)
37 (1744-1748)
38 (1749-1751, 1753-1754)
39 (1755-1759)
40 (1760)
41 (1761)
42 (1762)
43 (1763)
44 (1764)
45 (1765)
46 (1766)
47 (1767)
48 (1768)
49 (1769)
50 (1770)
51 (1771)
52 (1772)
53 (1773)
54 (1774)
55 (1775)
56 (1776)
57 (1777)
58 (1778)
59 (1779)
60 (1780)
61 (1781)
62 (1782)
63 (1783)
64 (1784)
65 (1785)
66 (1786)
67 (1787)
68 (1788)
69 (1789)
70 (1790)
71 (1791)
72 (1792)
73 (1793)
74 (1794)
75 (1795)
76 (1796)
77 (1797)
78 (1798)
79 (1799)
80 (1800)
81 (1801)
82 (1802)
83 (1803)
84 (1804)
85 (1805)
86 (1806)
87 (1807)
88 (1808)
89 (1809)
90 (1810)
91 (1811)
92 (1812)
93 (1813)
94 (1814)
95 (1815)
96 (1816)
The rolls were the formal audited version of the corporation accounts. Incomplete series.
Rent receipt books for Gypsy caravan sites
Comprises files on enquiry into permanent caravan sites for gypsies. Also includes files with details of past temporary caravan sites in York.
Comprises background papers and correspondence
Comprises files concerning the presence of Gypsies at the York Racecourse Ebor Festival. The files are primarily concerned with the establishment of temporary sites for gypsies for the duration of the festival.
City of York Council records relating to wildlife and the natural environment in York
Comprises correspondence files relating to rodent and insect control.
Registers of complaints received by the Health Department regarding rodents. Entries typically include situation of property; names of owner and/or occupier, nature of complaint and any action taken. Volumes indexed by street name.
Results of examination of samples by the Public Health Laboratory Service
Comprises reports relating to the bacteriological testing of milk samples
Comprises correspondence relating to the bacteriological testing of milk samples
Comprises results of analyses of milk samples carried out by the Public Analyst on behalf of the City of York. Samples are only identified by number, except for 1950 where the vendors are also identified.
Comprises results of analyses of food stuffs carried out by the Public Analyst on behalf of the City of York. Records type of food analysed, results and whether the product conforms to food standards.
Includes quarterly and annual reports (and associated papers) of the Public Analyst to the Mayor and councillors of York. The reports record the number and nature food samples analysed, as well as a summary of results.
Comprises correspondence and associated papers
Comprises papers relating to the oversight and inspection of meat, slaughterhouses and abattoirs.
Correspondence, circulars and associated papers relating to outbreaks of animal diseases.
Printed copies of user and consumer safety advice from government departments for recommended safe use of chemicals in Great Britain.
Comprises notifications and regulations relating to import and export of food.
Comprises papers relating to the testing and regulation of fertilisers and feeding stuffs.
Registers of unsound food surrendered to the Health Department.
Publications and printed literature on smoke abatement and atmospheric pollution
Notebooks containing street names and house numbers
Volumes recording weather and pollution readings from sites around York
Comprises correspondence files concerning the investigation and measurement of air pollution.
Comprises 20L, 10L, 5L and 2L fuel can measures; 2 boxes of pipettes; 56 LB weight; and 2 inspectors' scales (one labelled 'York' and one labelled 'Hull')
NOTE: ALL FUEL CAN MEASURES ARE LOCATED OFFSITE AND NEED TO BE ORDERED ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE.
Records relating to the licensing and regulation of ice-cream sales.
Comprises printed literature relating to trade regulation and commerce.
Comprises records relating to the registration and oversight of cowsheds, dairies and cowkeepers in York.
Comprises records relating to the oversight and licensing of slaughter houses and abattoirs.
Comprises records relating to the inspection and oversight of common lodging houses.
- Records relating to licencing and oversight of alehouses, brewers and malsters.
Records relating to water pollution levels in York's waterways and drains.
Local Board of Health reports and information on the construction of drains in York,
Published reports and plans for the Ouse and Foss Navigation Company. See Y/ENV/1/5 for more papers regarding the company.
The returns relate to Messrs T F Wood & Co. Very often the specific cargo is not detailed. Also include details of accounts and goods received.
This extensive collection includes volumes detailing the registration of canals using the lock, as well as other traffic passing through and the monies owed. Also includes wages books for staff operating the lock, correspondence files to and from the lock keeper, and extensives notes on river levels and soundings. .
Sem títuloIncludes Ordnance Survey maps of York and neighbouring areas, some with locations of schools marked on. Also includes 'Geographia' maps with schools marked on and OS maps showing different wards in and around York.
Log books for Rufforth Undenominational School. The log books include information about school attendance, upkeep of the buildings, the absences of particular pupils and the names of those admitted to or leaving the school. In some cases the schoolmaster states why the pupil is leaving and where they are moving on to. The schoolmaster from January 1881-October 1882 was J. Thomas Conyers Robson; he returned to the school in April 1883 after an absence of 5 months, during which time James Whitworth was master.
Log books for Castlegate School
Third triennial report of the work of the City of York School Board
Records relating to City of York School Board
The collection comprises photographs of the school only.
The collection comprises school magazines only.
The collection comprises school magazines.
The collection comprises school magazines.
Sem títuloRecords of the Joseph Rowntree Modern School
Records of the New Earswick Primary School
Records of the Jospeph Rowntree Senior School
Copies of York Where to Stay magazine for the years 1972,1973, 1975-1982, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 1993
Promotional brochure detailing the history of York Mansion House. Created for commerical purposes, advertising York Mansion House as a venue for occasions and events. Also contains images.
Sem títuloBrochure detailing the history of York Mansion House. Also contains images
Sem títuloIncludes records relating to York Mansion House as a tourist or business venue.
Sem títuloIncludes records relating to York Castle Museum
Sem títuloIncludes meeting minutes of staff meetings, general correspondence files, files relating to publications, curator's research files, papers relating to the re-branding of the Art Gallery and papers relating to a theft from the Art Gallery.
Sem títuloIncludes minutes of proceedings, annual reports, financial papers, subscription papers, lists of subscribers and correspondence files.
Sem títuloIncludes correspondence files, work permits and appointment forms. Also includes script for the Mystery Plays and some promotional materials including festival programmes.
Includes papers for the organisation of the festival, including the booking of events and artists, correspondence files and sample commemorative items.
Includes organisational materials for the festival, as well as promotion items (tickets, invitations to events, event programmes etc). Also includes some publicity material.
Includes organisational materials for the festival, as well as promotion items (tickets, invitations to events, event programmes etc). Also includes some publicity material and copies of play books for the Mystery Plays.
Includes organisational materials for the festival, as well as promotion items (tickets, invitations to events, event programmes etc). Also includes some publicity material.
Includes organisational materials for the festival, as well as promotion items (tickets, invitations to events, event programmes etc). Also includes some publicity material, including newspaper cuttings.
Includes organisational materials for the festival, as well as promotion items (tickets, invitations to events, event programmes etc). Also includes some publicity material, including newspaper cuttings.
Includes plans, proposals, leaflets, photographs and publicity relating to the organisation and staging of the festival.
Various items related to Queen Elizabeth II silver jubilee celebrations around the city and surrounding areas. Includes programmes, correspondence, posters
This series currently comprises meeting minutes for the organisation of the festival.
It is likely that the items in this series were collected by the York Festival team as examples of good practice.
This series currently comprises a festival poster and photographs of events.