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Archival description
Civil Defence conferences
Y/ORD/4/7/16 · Sub-series · 1951-1967
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Civil Defence competitions
Y/ORD/4/7/15 · Sub-series · 1954-1960
Part of York Civic Archive

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

First Aid files
Y/ORD/4/7/140 · Sub-series · 1953-1968
Part of York Civic Archive

Papers relating to first aid courses, competitions and services.

Crash Plan files
Y/ORD/4/7/130 · Sub-series · 1952-1962
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes papers and additional correspondence relating to the Crash Plan.

Y/ORD/4/7/12 · Sub-series · 1955-11 January 1971
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Circulars
Y/ORD/4/7/10 · Sub-series · 1949-1971
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Women's Voluntary Services
Y/ORD/4/6/8 · Sub-series · 1938-1949
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Y/ORD/4/6/7 · Sub-series · 1940-1944
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Y/ORD/4/6/6 · Sub-series · c.1939-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Shelters
Y/ORD/4/6/5 · Sub-series · 1939-1943
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Y/ORD/4/6/4 · Sub-series · May 1939-November 1939
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Civil Defence Wardens
Y/ORD/4/6/2 · Sub-series · 1938-December 1945
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Casualties
Y/ORD/4/6/17 · Sub-series · 1939-1948
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Training exercises
Y/ORD/4/6/16 · Sub-series · 1939-1944
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Staff registers
Y/ORD/4/6/15 · Sub-series · 1940-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Salvaged materials
Y/ORD/4/6/14 · Sub-series · 1944-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Halifax Bomber crash in York
Y/ORD/4/6/13 · Sub-series · 1945
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Y/ORD/4/6/12 · Sub-series · 1939-1958
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Billeting of workers
Y/ORD/4/6/10 · Sub-series · 1941-1945
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Civil Defence publications
Y/ORD/4/6/1 · Sub-series · 1939-1942
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Terrier maps
Y/LEG/2/7/2 · Sub-series · 1990s-2000s
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Y/HEA/8/5/3 · Sub-series · 1964-1977
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Radiation
Y/HEA/7/8 · Sub-series · 1950-1973
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Y/HEA/6/2/4 · Sub-series · c1915-1920
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Y/HEA/6/2/3 · Sub-series · 1914-1948
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

York City Asylum
Y/HEA/6/1/4 · Sub-series · 1906-1935
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Y/HEA/6/1/1/4 · Sub-series · 1906-1925 [with gaps]
Part of York Civic Archive

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]

Y/HEA/6/1/1/3 · Sub-series · 1901-1930
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Y/HEA/4/18/4 · Sub-series · 1942-1951
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Y/HEA/4/18/3 · Sub-series · 1942-1957 [gaps]
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Y/HEA/4/18/2 · Sub-series · 1942; 1946-1951
Part of York Civic Archive

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.

Y/HEA/4/18/12 · Sub-series · 1976-1983
Part of York Civic Archive

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

Y/HEA/4/18/1 · Sub-series · 1942-1949; 1954
Part of York Civic Archive

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.