Comprises plans relating to public transport (including trams)
improvements to river navigation (including canals and locks)
and bridge plans (including structural drawings).
Account ledgers kept by the Treasurer of the York Out-Relief Union Union. Includes payments received, and invoices and salaries paid.
Summary account ledgers kept by the Treasurer of the Poor Law Union. Includes accounts of payments received, and invoices and salaries paid.
Financial record of money received and paid out by the Treasurer on behalf of the Guardians of the Flaxton Out-Relief Union.
Note, one draft volume includes figures for both Flaxton and Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Unions
Financial record of money received and paid out by the Treasurer on behalf of the Guardians of the York Out-Relief Union.
Financial record of money received and paid out by the Treasurer on behalf of the Guardians of the York Poor Law Union.
Comprises papers relating to the control of outbreaks of Bovine Tuberculosis
Glass plate negatives with public health information on the prevention, spread and treatment of Tuberculosis. Includes statistical slides and slides with text.
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 newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes relating to Turkey.
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The magazine was initially published twice a year and included articles about the school, staff, pupils and school clubs. The magazine was published annually from around the 1950s onwards. Incomplete set. For earlier editions please see Y/EDU/1/3/1.
Comprises undated reports and detached pages of reports from the Medical Officer of Health. All reports are signed by Dr Robert Cattley.
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 papers and newspaper cuttings relating to relations between America and Europe, as well as American neutrality at the start of the Second World War.
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Images of specimens of unsound meat including one image of a control panel.
Registers of smallpox vaccinations kept by the Vaccination Officers (District Medical Officers) of the York Poor Law Union.
Details for each registered child include: date of birth; place of birth; child's name; parents' names; address; and father's occupation. Further columns record the date of vaccination or whether vaccination was not carried.
Volumes PLU/8/1/1/18 -PLU/8/1/1/27 include inserted correspondence relating to individual vaccination cases. This correspondence primarily concerns notices of vaccination and/or notes from parents detailing reasons why vaccination should be delayed or is not necessary.
NOTE: volumes 8-18 are MISSING as at Nov 2016
Registers of smallpox vaccinations kept by the Vaccination Officers (District Medical Officer) of the York Poor Law Union.
Details for each registered child include: date of birth; place of birth; child's name; parents' names; address; and father's occupation. Further columns record the date of vaccination and whether it was successful.
Volumes PLU/8/1/2/17-PLU/8/1/2/26 include inserted correspondence relating to individual vaccination cases. This correspondence primarily concerns notices of vaccination and/or notes from parents detailing reasons why vaccination is delayed or not necessary.
Bound volumes of vistors books, detailing names of visitors and purpose of visit to the club.
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Books detailing wages for various paid positions at the York Cemetery Company. Includes details of memebrs of staff and salaries paid for different roles.
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Comprises weekly and half-yearly records of wages and salaries for staff of the York Poor Law Union.
Wages books for members of staff of the council Welfare department, specialising in children's welfare.
Includes descriptions of each job done, names of staff carrying it out, National Insurance contributions and total wages paid.
Wages book for members of the social welfare department.
Wages book for members of the welfare department.
At present this collection comprises one job file for the work carried out.
Includes war books and one index to war book files.
Includes relief lists of the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee.
Information recorded varied over time. Name of pauper and amount of relief received each week are always recorded; age and residence of pauper were also included at various periods. A statistical portion recording the classification of paupers appears in books from Sep 1848. Non-settled poor and Common Charges (irremovable poor and vagrants) are recorded in the back of books where relevant. Children boarded-out are also recorded for a short time in the early twentieth century. In some instances entries may indicate if an individual was sent to an institution (for example, the workhouse or the asylum).
From 1837 to 1848 records were divided into quarterly periods (March, June, September and December); from 1849 to 1948 they were divided into half-yearly periods. Please note that not all records survive.
Between 1898 and Mar 1904 the York City District was divided into City District 1 and City District 2; between 1905 and 1935 the City District was organised into East, West and North Districts; and from 1936 to 1948 it was organised into East, West, North and Central districts.
Weekly statistical returns recording the number and category of persons in receipt of relief.
Includes files on evacuations, information and rest centres, air raid warnings, care and development, and associated correspondence.
Includes newspaper cuttings and reports relating to the West Indies.
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At present this collection comprises one job file regarding work carried out.
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At present this collection comprises one job file for the work carried out.
At present this collection comprises one job file regarding work carried out.
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Includes reports, correspondence, the 'One in five scheme' and handbook on emergency welfare scheme.
Includes the ten year report, the knitting report and one correspondence file regarding the work of the service.
Approved bound minutes. Most volumes are indexed
York Poor Law Union | Workhouse Visiting CommitteeYear Books and Hand Books given to members of the Club including names of members and details of rules and regulations for using the River.
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Files on particular subjects handled by the NALGO (York Branch). See individual descriptions for more detailed information.
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Includes cheque books, financial papers, invoices, receipts and associated financial correspondence.
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Comprises records concerning the opening of the asylum; governance; staffing; and buildings.
General correspondence files primarily concerning stock and equipment.
Instructions to presiding officers and poll clerks
The job files relating to the demolition of the school and the creation of a shop.
These forms record deaths which were reported to the Coroner but which did not go to inquest.
York CoronerThis material records deaths which were reported to the Coroner but which did not go to inquest.
York CoronerThis material records deaths which were reported to the Coroner but which did not go to inquest.
York CoronerThis material records deaths which were reported to the Coroner but which did not go to inquest.
York CoronerArranged roughly chronologically by date.
At present this collection comprises one job file for the work carried out.
Comprises petitions and counsel opinions regarding lunacy.
Includes correspondence relating to the proposal and purchase of Acomb Hall, staffing and training, and general administrative matters.
Includes a pamphlet 'A friendly Parting Shot at the Defeated and Discomfited Free Library Committee' (with covering letter), a flyer entitled 'Mr. George Leeman's Last Words to his Fellow Citizens, November 11th, 1881', one catalogue of books held in the library, a collection of newspaper articles collected by the York Free Library Committee, correspondence files and architectural drawings.
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Images of the hospital building and grounds (nurses and other individuals also appear in the slides).
Includes approved and draft minutes
Published year books of the York Poor Law Union.
Information within the year books varies from year to year but may include: general regulations and standing orders governing the union; committees serving the Union and Out-Relief Unions; lists of elected Guardians and other officers including length of service; committees; lists of parishes within the Union; and workhouse dietaries.
Operational records and photographs of York Public Library, including drawings, stock books, accessions registers and papers regarding the foundation of the library in 1892. Also includes papers regarding the new premises for the library in Museum Street.
York Public LibraryVarious documents relating to the York Society for the Prevention and Discouragement of Vice and Profaneness, including annual reports, annual meeting resolutions, list of subscribers, treasurer's summary annual reports and bank statements.
Various documents relating to the York Society for the Prevention of Youthful Depravity, including a minute book and a printed tract and poster.
This series includes three catalogues of books held in the York Subscription Library, as well as a pen and ink sketch of the interior of the building.
Includes correspondence regarding meetings, meeting minutes and correspondence relating to financial and expenditure issues.
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Papers of the Town Clerk. Comprises correspondence files, printed annual reports and minutes of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Committee, and printed Acts.
Copies of printed minutes of the meetings of the Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority
Printed annual Reports including statement of accounts and statistics
Includes correspondence, minutes and meeting papers.
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At present this collection comprises one job file for the work carried out.