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Archival description

Approved minutes of the York Poor Law Union Children's Committee and Boarding Out Comittee; and the Children's and Boarding Out Sub-Committees of the Public Assistance Committee.

Most volumes are indexed.

See also PLU/1/8 for combined minutes and PLU/6 for other records relating to child welfare.

Public Assistance Committee | Children's and Boarding-Out Committee

Handwritten and typed minutes. Includes indexed minutes of the following committees: Boarding-Out Committee; Dietary Committee; Fire Committee; List of Inmates Sub-Committee; Sub-Committee to report on poor law workers reforms; Registrar for Skelton Committee; Regulations for the administration of the Institution Committee; Tender Forms Committee; Working of the Hospital Sub-Committee; Year Book Committee. Also other committees (not indexed).

Registration

Comprises records relating to the civil registration of births, deaths and marriages. Poor law unions were used as registration districts from 1837, when civil registration was introduced.

Includes the outgoing letterbooks of the Superintendent Registrar; and correspondence between the Superintendent Registrar of York and the Registrar General, London.

Comprises incoming letters from the Registrar General and other officers of the General Register Office in London to the Superintendent Registrar in York; and outgoing letters from the Superintendent Registrar to the General Register Office.

Includes instructions, memoranda and acts printed by the General Register Office.

Comprises general correspondence sent by the Clerk of the York Poor Law Union, and, from 1930, the Public Assistance Officer of the Public Assistance Committee.

The correspondence concerns the general administration and application of the New Poor Law by the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Committee. Included in this correspondence are letters concerning individuals who applied for, or were receiving relief.

The letters are handwritten up to 1903, and typed from 1903 onwards.