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Archival description
Dairies and cowsheds
Y/ENV/2/4 · Series · 1893-1975
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises records relating to the registration and oversight of cowsheds, dairies and cowkeepers in York.

Y/ENV/2/4/1/1 · Item · 1893-1904
Part of York Civic Archive

Information recorded includes situation of premises, names of owners and occupiers, number of cows and sanitary conditions of premises. Also includes bundle of loose pencil notes in front of volume. Not indexed.

Y/ENV/2/4/1/4 · Item · 1922-1941
Part of York Civic Archive

Information recorded includes name and address, situation of premises, whether retail or wholesale, and decision of sanitary inspector. Includes loose bundle of blank forms, correspondence and notes from front of volume.

Indexed by surname

Y/ENV/2/4/1/5 · Item · c1923-1975
Part of York Civic Archive

Information recorded includes name of occupier, situation and description of premises, and decision of sanitary inspector. Wholesale and retail traders are registered separately.
Indexed by surname.

Y/ENV/2/7 · Series · Late 19th-early 20th century
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

20L fuel can measure
Y/ENV/2/7/1 · Item · Late 19th-early 20th century
Part of York Civic Archive

Physical measure used by the York Weights and Measures Office.

PLEASE REQUEST THIS ITEM ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE - HELD IN OFFSITE STORAGE

10L fuel can measure
Y/ENV/2/7/2 · Item · Late 19th-early 20th century
Part of York Civic Archive

Physical measure used by the York Weights and Measures Office.

PLEASE REQUEST THIS ITEM ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE - HELD IN OFFSITE STORAGE

5L fuel can measure
Y/ENV/2/7/3 · Item · Late 19th-early 20th century
Part of York Civic Archive

Physical measure used by the York Weights and Measures Office.

PLEASE REQUEST THIS ITEM ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE - HELD IN OFFSITE STORAGE

2L fuel can measure
Y/ENV/2/7/4 · Item · Late 19th-early 20th century
Part of York Civic Archive

Physical measure used by the York Weights and Measures Office.

PLEASE REQUEST THIS ITEM ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE - HELD IN OFFSITE STORAGE

Set of pipettes
Y/ENV/2/7/5 · Item · Late 19th-early 20th century
Part of York Civic Archive

Physical measures used by the York Weights and Measures Office.

56LB weight
Y/ENV/2/7/7 · Item · Late 19th-early 20th century
Part of York Civic Archive

Physical measure used by the York Weights and Measures Office.

Air pollution
Y/ENV/4 · Sub-sub-fonds · 1900s-1980s
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises records relating to smoke abatement and air pollution levels. Includes correspondence and related papers as well as measurements of pollution levels.

Y/ENV/4/1/1 · File · 1900s-1940s
Part of York Civic Archive

Incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Chief Sanitary Inspector relating to air pollution complaints and nuisances. Includes complaints and investigations regarding the York Gas Works. Note that this correspondence has not been filed in strict chronological order.

Y/ENV/4/1/4 · File · 1949-1954
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises correspondence relating to the Standing Conference on Atmospheric Pollution headed by the national government's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Includes data sheets recording analyses of matter collected in pollution gauges on sites in York Also includes some correspondence and publications of the National Smoke Abatement Society.

Y/ENV/4/1/5 · File · 1952-1958
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises correspondence relating to the Standing Conference on Atmospheric Pollution headed by the national government's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Includes data sheets recording analyses of matter collected in pollution gauges on sites in York [1954-1958]

Publications
Y/ENV/4/7 · Series · 1904-1961
Part of York Civic Archive

Publications and printed literature on smoke abatement and atmospheric pollution

Smoke abatement literature
Y/ENV/4/7/1 · Sub-series · 1904-1948
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes publications, printed conference proceedings and reports relating to smoke abatement, chiefly those printed by the Smoke Abatement League and its successor organisation, the Smoke Abatement Society. Includes the Journal of the Smoke Abatement Society [1930-1934]; Smokeless Air, The Smoke Abatement Journal [1943-1948]; as well as other publications. Includes a small number of covering letters.

Food supply and food hygiene
Y/ENV/5 · Sub-sub-fonds · 1890s-1980
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises records relating to food safety. Includes records concerning meat inspection, food sampling and testing, diseases of animals, and chemical used in agriculture.

Wartime food control
Y/ENV/5/11 · File · 1940-1947
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises correspondence and associated papers concerning supply of food and food hygiene under rationing during World War II.

Y/ENV/5/14 · File · 1865; 1924-1925
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises correspondence, printed regulations and recommendations of the Health (Meat Regulations) Sub-Committee. Also includes a letter dated 16 Jan 1865 regarding glue factories.

Food import and exports
Y/ENV/5/15/1 · File · 1973-1979
Part of York Civic Archive

Contains notifications of unexamined food, notifications of sealed containers, and regulations governing the import and export of food

Diseases of animals
Y/ENV/5/17 · Series · c1865-1905
Part of York Civic Archive

Correspondence, circulars and associated papers relating to outbreaks of animal diseases.

Cattle plague papers
Y/ENV/5/17/1 · File · c1865-1869
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes weekly national returns or reported cases of cattle plague; the Inspector of Cattle's notebook of licenses; movement licenses; a public notice; and a printed copy of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869.

Sample forms
Y/ENV/5/17/5/4 · File · c1925
Part of York Civic Archive

Blank copies of sample forms relating to the Tuberculosis Order, 1925

Cases
Y/ENV/5/17/5/5 · File · 1927-1938
Part of York Civic Archive

Preliminary enquiries; reports and associated paper regarding cases of tuberculosis in animals.

Photographs
Y/ENV/5/19/15 · Sub-series · 1950s
Part of York Civic Archive

Black and white photographs of slaughterhouses in York. Includes images of slaughterhouses in Barbican Place, and Clementhorpe

Y/ENV/5/19/2 · File · 1952-1970
Part of York Civic Archive

Comprises general correspondence and associated papers relating to public abattoirs in York. Includes reports, printed literature and committee papers.