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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

Reports on typhoid fever outbreaks in York.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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

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

Annual returns of all lunatics by the Clerk of the York Board of Guardians. Lists name, age, gender and residence (for example, name of asylum or other residence) of all lunatics chargeable to the York Poor Law Union.

Lists name of lunatic, name of poor law union paying the charges, and date of admission. Includes pauper lunatics as well as private and criminal patients. From 1918 returns include a list of 'Service lunatics' from WW1 [note that there are gaps in the series]

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

Comprises petitions and counsel opinions regarding lunacy.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

General administrative correspondence relating to precautions under the responsibility of the Health Department.

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

Includes correspondence and related papers regarding feeding the population of York in an emergency and providing communal feeding facilities (British Restaurants).

Correspondence and associated papers related to the establishment and management of additional nurseries during World War II.

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.

Comprises correspondence, individual reports of accidents at work and statistical information on accidents in the workplace.

Comprises correspondence, individual reports of accidents at work and statistical information on accidents in the workplace.

General correspondence files primarily concerning stock and equipment.

Registers of dangerous drugs received and dispensed at Clifford Street Dispensary

These maps relate directly to the references on the terrier cards (see Y/LEG/2/7/1). The maps are not individually labelled other than by sheet numbers, therefore users must consult the cards first to establish which maps they would like to consult.

The reports contain information on members of the fire brigade, call-out types, methods of communication, causes of fires, costs and annual inspections.

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.

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 files relating to various air raids on the city of York, including the 1942 Baedeker Raid, and the administration of the aftermath of those raids. Also includes files relating to repairs to buildings and reglazing.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

From 1942 this committee is called the Civil Defence committee.

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 paperwork relating to Prime Cost Contracts.

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

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

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

Includes reports, correspondence, the 'One in five scheme' and handbook on emergency welfare scheme.

Includes general correspondence, and questionnaires and replies containing members' details.

Includes general administration files.

Includes general administration files.

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.

Contains general correspondence regarding the sale of equipment and the closure of the Civil Defence Corps.

Includes papers relating to Washington Hall (the Home Office training centre in Lancashire) and York Mansion House.

Includes maps of a proposed compound and rescue training rea, and details relating to previous Civil Defence land on Bull Lane and Lawrence Street.

Includes operational plan, city of York map and a map showing the city and sector boundaries.

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 administration files and details of which local departments were responsible for particular types of incidents.

Includes papers and additional correspondence relating to the Crash Plan.

Includes messages from key members and papers regarding the need for Civil Defence.

Includes record cards, payment information, files and pamphlets

Papers relating to first aid courses, competitions and services.

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

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

Papers relating to the management of Civil Defence control centres,

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.

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 one circular, papers regarding mobilisation and deployment and a report by Marshall and Pengilley.

Includes one circular, papers regarding mobilisation and deployment and a report by Marshall and Pengilley.

Includes procedures for reconnaisance parties.

Includes war books and one index to war book files.

Contains information about the equipment held by the Civil Defence Association in York. Includes details of items on loan and items retained after the Second World War.

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

Includes files relating to the York experiment, the Second York experiment and the experiment regarding the conservation of food.

Indexes and lists of Civil Defence files.

Includes financial returns and paperwork regarding the expenditure of the Civil Defence Association in York.

Includes papers relating to the management of the Fire Service in York.

Includes preparations for emergency feeding in the event of a nuclear attack.

Includes general correspondence about the Home Defence service in York, as well as papers for the Home Defence College.

Includes general correspondence, details of courses and the Civil Defence School at York, as well as returns as to the strength of the Civil Defence Corps.

Includes papers regarding the organisation of hospitals and hospital-based exercises. Also includes associated correspondence.

Includes correspondence and circulars relating to Civil Defence in industry.

Includes papers relating to stores and equipment, files relating to the reconstruction of a road and car park and civil defence equipment papers.

Includes papers relating to annual inspections and reviews of the Civil Defence Corps.

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.

Editions of the Civil Defence Officers journal.

Minutes of meetings of the Civil Defence Assocation, including committee meetings.

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