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Printed annual Reports including statement of accounts and statistics

Copies of printed minutes of the meetings of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority

Registers of staff service compiled principally to record superannuation payments. Includes name of staff member, office/position held, salary, dates of commencement and termination of service. May also include particulars of previous service.

Note: these volumes are dated according to the commencement date of staff, however there appear to be a small number of entries outside the covering dates. All volumes are indexed by surname of staff member.

See also PLU/11/3/3/5 York Poor Law Union Superannuation Registers

Includes details of salaries, subscription fees and expenses.

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

Clearance papers

Comprises two volumes for the Mar 1847

Comprises two volumes for the Mar 1847

Improvement papers for the Walmgate area.

Town Clerk's clearance papers Walmgate.

The later reports are titled City of York Public Library Committee

Clearance papers

Clearance records concerning multiple clearance areas.

Glass negatives with public health information on the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis. Includes slides of children with various diseases; pictures of housing; image of a [?]model dairy; a laboratory; and a York Health Department display. Box marked: 'By Longstaff'.

Glass negatives with public health information on the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis. Includes images of specimens in milk, chart of the School Medical Service, chart of health services for consumptives, map showing distribution of cases, image of a young boy. Also includes film negative of an unknown treatment facility. Box marked: 'By Watson'

Glass negatives with public health information on the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis. Includes images of model housing and a patient shelter, microscopic images of the Bacilli, charts and prevention techniques. Box marked: 'Pictures by Watson and Longstaff'

Glass plate negatives with public health information on the prevention, spread and treatment of Tuberculosis. Includes statistical slides and slides with text. Also includes image of a plan of York with each death by consumption marked for the period 1902-1909. Box marked: 'Slides for Langstaff. Negs. and Jeyes'

Comprises inspection records relating to rental properties with certificates of disrepair. The inspection reports record works that were necessary in order to cancel the certificates of disrepair. Certificates of disrepair were issued to tenants and allowed them to refuse any rent increase by the landlord until necessary improvements to the property were carried out. Some files include paperwork concerning the remedying of defects and applications by the landlord to cancel the certificate of disrepair.

Clearance papers for the general Groves area.

Clearance papers

Clearance papers

Registers intended to record superannuation contributions made by staff. Note, entries in these registers have not been completed. See also PLU/11/3/3/12 York Poor Law Union Service Registers

Includes statistics relating to visitor numbers, issues, accounts, library membership, enquiries and accessions.

Includes some personnel files for individual staff members, and staff circulars.

Comprises files of successful applicants only

Comprises files of successful applicants only

Comprises files of successful applicants only

Clearance papers

Clearance papers

Town Clerk's clearance papers for Skeldergate.

Improvement papers

Box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). The slides include images of patients with infectious diseases, health statistics and informational slides on health.

Box of glass plate negatives belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Box labelled: 'Best negatives of School Clinic: nurses at work; School Clinic: Mrs Potter at work; School Clinic: the Dentist at work; Knavesmire School: the spray bath and open air classrooms'. Also labelled: 'Hanstock's negatives'

Box of glass plate negatives belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Glass plate negatives of children receiving treatment from nurses at the School Medical Clinic and images of infants at Fishergate Creche.

Reports itemising various training needs required, as well as workshops undertaken.

Replies from property owners regarding notice to apply for a provisional order for the Castlegate and Water Lane Improvement Scheme. These are pre-printed forms on which owners were asked to register their assent, dissent or neutrality to the scheme. See Y/PPT/2/3/3/5 for notices sent to owners, occupiers and lessees.

Includes registers of applications to join the library, and registers of loan requests made.

Clearance papers

Records produced by the library in relation to its daily activities. Much of the information in these volumes may have been summarised in the volumes of statistics (Y/EDU/5/3/7).

Comprises plans, photographs and copy of application for planning permission.

Printed sections of the Poor Law Act, 1930 relating to the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority

Clearance papers

Includes photographs of York Public Library (including the Childrens and Reference libraries) as well as images of Acomb, Tang Hall and New Earswick branch libraries.

Clearance papers.

Particulars and conditions of sale for properties and land to be sold by York Corporation following improvements and clearances in the Castlegate and Water Lane area. Includes land and property in Clifford Street, Tower Street, King's Staith, and a 'proposed new street'.

Clearance papers

Primarily includes papers relating to the opening of the library.

Currently only includes one invitation to the opening of the library, and a series of photographs taken on the day.

Currently only includes information relating to the opening of branch libraries at Strensall and Haxby.

At present this series only comprises materials relating to 'All Change at Clifton.'

Includes correspondence relating to the temporary branch library at Acomb and the planning of the new permanent branch.

Comprises agreements between York Corporation and property owners regarding the sale of land in order to widen the First Water Lane (King Street). Includes a subscription list for improvements, and legal papers for the transfer of property.

Papers and architectural drawings relating to the formation of the York Public Library.

Includes correspondence, tenders and architectural drawings relating to the proposed new York Public Library building in Museum Street.

Comprises draft minutes, and correspondence to the Committee and the Local Board of Health.

Includes Subject indexes to Periodicals, annual reports for the Yorkshire branch,

Clearance papers

Comprises stubs recording when a nurse has been notified of the Poor Law Officers' Superannuation Act, 1896 and replies of nurses who do not wish to avail themselves of the act.

Clearance papers for the Nunnery Lane area.

Notices served to owners, occupiers and lessees of the application to the Local Government Order for a provisional order for compulsory purchase to improve the Castlegate and Water Lane area. The notices include the names of the occupiers, owners and lessees (where relevant), a description of the property, and the plan number of the property. See also Y/PPT/2/3/3/6 for owners replies.

Includes newspaper cuttings relating to the creation of free libraries generally, York Public Library specifically, and local and national news stories relating to the library sector.

Clearance papers for Newbiggin Street and Groves Lane area.

Town Clerk's clearance papers for Navigation Road.
Comprises records relating to the following streets:
1) for Navigation Road (Central); Navigation Road; Speculation Street; School Street
2) for Navigation Road (North): Navigation Road; Constitution Place; Rosemary Hill; Rosemary Place; St Margaret's Terrace; and School Street.
3) Alexandra Yard, Hill's Y arid and McQuade Yard.

Clearance papers

Includes both minute books and loose agendas and minutes for committees and subcommittees held within the library.

Minute books relating to the court of honour, group council and patrol leaders.

Includes material relating to libraries outside of the City of York Council boundary, which were retained by the library service for reference.

Clearance papers

Clearance papers for the Marygate area.

Log books relating to new acquisitions to the library and book borrowing.

Licensing appeal papers for public houses within the Castlegate and Water Lanes Improvement Scheme. Includes recognizances, objections and licensing papers.

Letter books and loose correspondence retained by the York Public Library (later York City Library) in the course of its duties.

Includes leaflets and other marketing materials both created by the library and retained by the library, with the latter relating to events held in the building.

Clearance papers

Improvement papers for the Layerthorpe area.

Clearance papers

Clearance papers

A box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes slides covering various areas of health education including anatomy, botany, and bacteriology.

Series of 50 lantern slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes slides of Knavesmire School, York Maternity Hospital, housing, infant mortality and general health warnings.

A box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes images of a patient with adenoids, a plan of a cottage at Port Sunlight, demonstration of window ventilators, a patient room at Kelling Sanatorium in Norfolk, demolition of a house, and birth and death rates 1893-1902.

A box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes slides of historical health statistics; educational slides relating to germs; images of Louis Pasteur, Lord Lister and Dr Woodhead, and a slide of an unknown building.

Series of lantern slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes images of Goodramgate, Bedern, St Leonard's, Skeldergate, Walmgate, and St Martin's Micklegate.

Box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). The slides include images of patients individuals suffering from the effects of syphilis, as well as information slides on how the disease is spread and its treatment.

A box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). The slides include images of poor housing in York, a plan of a cottage at Port Sunlight, plans of back to back, flats and square blocks of streets. Also includes an image of a model of a model street of housing in York. Note, this box also contains a written list of slides that bears little resemblance to the contents of the box - it is likely that this list was used simply as packing material.

Box of slides featuring mainly classical sculptures and paintings.

Box of glass plate negatives belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes images of open-air classrooms and spray baths. Box labelled: 'Mr Hanstock's negatives of Knavesmire School.'

Town Clerk's clearance papers for King Street.

Comprises papers for improvement of unhealthy housing. Includes house inspection reports; closing orders; correspondence; reports of necessary improvements; and in some cases plans and demolition orders. Note: house inspection reports usually record the name/s of the owner and occupier.

Clearance papers for the Hungate area. See also Y/PPT/2/1/15/22 for Hungate improvement papers and Y/PPT/2/1/15/21 for Hungate inspection reports.

Comprises papers for improvement of unhealthy housing. Includes house inspection reports; closing orders, correspondence; reports of necessary improvements; and in some cases plans and demolition orders. Note: house inspection reports usually record the name/s of the owner and occupier. Most files include a summary page of actions taken. See also Y/PPT/2/1/8/38 for Hungate clearance papers.

Comprises reports of house to house inspections carried out by the Medical Officer of Health and the Inspector of Nuisances. Includes details of owners, occupiers, size and condition of house.

Town Clerk's clearance papers for Hungate.