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The assessments give the names of the persons assessed and the amount payable, and also the names of the Poor Folks and the amount paid to them. 6 volumes:

1: 1632-1644 (also includes the Ainsty for 1633)
2: 1644-1652
3: 1653-1660
4: 1661-1668

5. 1669-1678
6. 1715-1810 [Entries for years 1746-1810 lists names of overseers of the poor only]

One volume:

1: 1664-1665

Booklets regarding consumer protection services for traders

Details recorded include: name and address of owner or agent; number of families in the house; name of responsible tenant; names of other tenants or sub-tenants; number of persons normally sleeping in rooms; size and use of rooms; and number of persons allowed per room. Note that the information recorded varies from sheet to sheet.

Comprises booklets and loose sheets of City of York House inspection sheets for properties in improvement and clearance areas. Inspection sheet typically record the following details: address of property; names of occupiers/owners; occupation of occupier; total number of occupations; rent; size and condition of each room in the house.

Reports on typhoid fever outbreaks in York.

Architectural plans for Brandesburton Hall, Home for the Mentally Defective.

Comprises records concerning the opening of the asylum; governance; staffing; and buildings.

Comprises petitions and counsel opinions regarding lunacy.

Town Clerk's correspondence concerning the accommodation and maintenance of pauper lunatics.

Comprises returns of pauper lunatics. The returns include personal details of patients.

Includes correspondence relating to the proposal and purchase of Acomb Hall, staffing and training, and general administrative matters.

Publications and associated correspondence about their production. Arranged into chronological bundles.

Includes correspondence received from members of the public in relation to the activities of the Art Gallery. Arranged semi-chronologically, the correspondence has been grouped together by theme or by correspondant.

Arthur Cooke was a Civil Defence Officer in York in the 1950s and 1960s. These files form his personal collection of correspondence created in the course of this duties.

Papers relating to the management of Civil Defence control centres,

Includes papers relating to Civil Defence regional conferences, as well as the controllers designate conference. Also includes lists of attendees and minutes.

Includes rules for the National Civil Defence competitions, as well as the Wireless competition. Also includes some information about competition processes and briefs.

Includes correspondence relating to excursions by the British Association, as well as an annual meeting programme for 1959.

Includes files relating to planning in the event of a nuclear attack, essential service routes, awards, radiological defence instruments and fallout and contamination.

Contains correspondence and paperwork regarding staff training courses on a variety of subjects.

Includes training course materials, bulletins and additional correspondence relating to the work of the Scientific Intelligence Officers.

Includes briefs and supplementary information relating to various exercises carried out by the Civil Defence Association in the York area.

Clearance papers for specific slum clearance programmes in York.

Notebooks used by housing inspectors to record rough notes on visits to individual properties in The Groves , Layerthorpe and Walmgate. The books appear to be notes of visits carried out in response to objections when a house was declared unfit.

Comprises records of house inspections under the Housing Acts 1909 to 1925. Information recorded includes: address; name of owner and occupier; and date of inspection. May also include condition of property, sketch of property; and details of action taken. Includes records for the following streets: Aldwark; Alexandra Yard, Walmgate; Alne Terrace; Apollo Street; Bowman's Yard; Bay Horse Yard; Bishopgate Street; Bishophill; Back Butlers Buildings; Beckett's Yard; Beedham's Court; Blossom Street; Bootham Square; Bootham Row; Britton's Yard; Brunswick Row; Brunswick Terrace; Brunswick Place; Cemetery Road; Clark's Yard; Constitution Place; Clementhorpe; Carleton's Court; The Cottages, Heworth; Dale Street; Dennis Street; Dixon's Yard; Dundas Street; Ebor Court; Fetter Lane (Scrivens Court).

Details recorded include: number in rate book; address; name and address of owner or agent; name of responsible tenant; names of other tenants or sub-tenants; number of persons normally sleeping in rooms; size and use of rooms; and number of persons allowed per room. Note that the information recorded varies from sheet to sheet.

Images of specimens of unsound meat including one image of a control panel.

Images of housing in York, including the demolition of houses in front of silo in Garden Place, Hungate

Includes slides of mother/infant classes and nurseries in various English cities; microscopic images of diseases; images of children with infectious diseases; images of health and childcare warnings; slide of a model dairy, and a portrait of Benjamin Broadbent.

Includes slides of children with measles, rickets and adenoids.

Public Health educational slides. Images include individuals with infectious diseases (chickenpox, measles and measles), warnings of fire hazards and pushchair hazards, and microscopic images. Also includes two black and white photographs of narrow alleyway and small printed health education slogans regarding cancer.

Images of the hospital building and grounds (nurses and other individuals also appear in the slides).

Includes images of the School Medical Clinic, Fishergate Creche and Knavesmire School.

A collection of lantern slides belonging to York's first full-time Medical Officer of Health, Edmund Moody Smith. The collection includes slides of patients with infectious diseases, model housing, health services, graphs and statistics and information slides.

Comprises correspondence; conveyances and other legal papers regarding the conveyance of land and street improvements in Jubbergate.

Papers concerning the widening of streets and construction of new streets in the Castlegate and Water Lanes area.

Comprises a list of names of York Streets and a public notice.

Comprises records of the system of house numbering and renumbering for York's streets.

Photographs of clearance streets and properties taken by City of York council and predecessor bodies

Comprises undated reports and detached pages of reports from the Medical Officer of Health. All reports are signed by Dr SW North, except one signed by the Deputy Medical Officer of Health

Includes returns of births and deaths

Includes returns of births and deaths

Includes returns of births and deaths

Include returns of births and deaths

Information recorded includes personal details of each patient, milk supply, and living conditions. From April 1954 the format changes to environmental conditions forms. Note that these cards are samples only of total cases.

Information recorded includes personal details of each patient, possible source of infection, and living conditions. Note that these cards are samples only of total cases.

Information recorded includes personal details of each patient, possible source of infection, and living conditions. Note that these cards are samples only of total cases.

The record cards provide the personal details of each patient, possible source of infection, and living conditions. Cards from 1950 and 1954 include an attached report, which records possible ways the disease may have been transmitted, such as schools attended, and persons and places visited. Note that these cards are samples only of total cases.

Report sheets for cases of infectious disease including paratyphoid and pulmonary tuberculosis, diphtheria and enteric disease, meningitis, Giardia Lamblia, hepatitis and dysentery.

Correspondence files regarding precautions for dealing with a radioactive event and regarding the register of radioactive substances. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence and printed literature.

Includes:
E83: Book containing receipts and payments in respect of cremitt monies, 1651-1660;
E84: Register book of persons entitled to 'cremitt' money and other charities; also extracts from wills, together with the names of persons in St Catherine's and St Thomas's Hospitals etc, 1719-1836.

Health Department correspondence files relating to air raid precautions (organised by subject). Includes correspondence and related papers.

Correspondence and associated papers relating to administrative matters of the Joint Board and the management of Whixley Institution for the Mentally Deficient. May contain some references to patients/cases.

Correspondence, minutes and reports relating to the management of Brandesburton Hall for the Mentally Defective in East Yorkshire. Contains some references to patients/cases.

A series of numbered pieces of correspondence and bundles of correspondence organised by subject. Includes correspondence, circulars, minutes and other associated papers related to the housing and care of those with learning disabilities following the introduction of the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913. Contains information on patients/cases. There is an index to this correspondence filed in the front of Y/HEA/6/2/4/1 . Note, there are gaps in this series.

Includes correspondence, circulars, minutes, and other associated papers related to the housing and care of those with learning disabilities following the introduction of the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913. Includes correspondence regarding specific patients and cases. The earlier files from 1914 to the early 1920s are in rough chronological order only.

Includes correspondence, minutes and agendas for meetings of the Civil Defence Committee, including details relating to the creation of an Establishment Committee and emergency committees.

Includes papers relating to the Association of Civil Defence officers and the Civil Defence Association, as well as information about the re-organisation of Civil Defence in York in 1967.

Files of circulars, memoranda and accompanying correspondence relating to the work of the Civil Defence Association in York. Also includes some indexes to circulars.

General correspondence files relating to the work of the Civil Defence organisation, covering a wide variety of topics. See individual descriptions for more detailed information about contents.

Includes manuals relating to nuclear weapons, line communication, field cable construction, Army health and rescues.

Includes files relating to toxic agents, features of an atomic bomb, radioactive products, a report on the British mission to Japan and the Windscale accident.

Includes correspondence regarding the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme, protocols for civilian deaths, lists of air raid casualties and mortuary protocols.

Includes electrical and radio notes for wireless operators, training reports, correspondence regarding enemy weaponry, premises papers and details of exercise 'Leap'.

Staff registers including salary details and length of time served with the York Corporation. The volumes primarily cover the Town Clerk's Office.

Includes a list of materials transferred from the Pumping Station to the Housing Depot, and correspondence regarding salvaged materials.

Includes paperwork relating to Prime Cost Contracts.

Includes correspondence files regarding the crash, as well as newspaper clippings and official casualty lists. The bomber crasher in Nunthorpe Grove.

Includes details of the government scheme for the billeting of war workers, as well as a handbook on billeting and welfare for use by Chief Billeting Officers.

Includes the ten year report, the knitting report and one correspondence file regarding the work of the service.

Includes correspondence files regarding access to water for fire fighting equipment, the repair of equipment including hydrants and mains valves, one fire watcher's log and attendance book, agreements regarding the British Sugar Corporation and parade ord

Includes papers relating to potential gas attacks, bomb threats, air raid precautions for animals, emergency feeding and rest centres and posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Includes correspondence and associated papers regarding the recruitment of volunteer wardens, air raid wardens and public air raid shelters.

Correspondence relating to staffing, equipment, first aid materials, purchases, wardens' posts, the installation of relay systems, building of public shelters, disposal of unexploded bombs, gas masks and supply depots.

Includes pictures of the Head Wardens for York, Chief Warden's correspondence, Chief Warden's circulars and information about the numbers of paid and unpaid wardens.

Includes correspondence outlining the financial situation of the Civil Defence of York in 1939, a handbook outlining procedures in the event of an air raid, and appendix to the handbook.