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Records orders made by the Collecting Committee to recover payments of relief (welfare payments) made to individuals. The Collecting Committee usually ordered liable relatives to contribute to the maintenance of destitute and poor relations.
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The entries record the name of the person chargeable (i.e. receiving welfare); name of liable relative; address; order and amount to be repaid.

Note: volumes PLU/4/1/5-8 were missing as at Dec 2016.

Comprises records relating to the collection of relief from liable individuals.

The York Poor Law Union (and later the Public Assistance Committee) attempted to recover money spent on relief that had been granted to the poor. They ordered individuals - usually liable relatives - to contribute towards the cost of maintaining those in receipt of poor relief. The collection of relief was administered by the Collecting Committee.

Includes order books, notices to contribute, payment ledgers, receipt and payment books, registers of insurance benefits and adjourned cases, claim made to the Ministry of Health, and Collectors' accounts and correspondence.

See also PLU/13/1 for legal cases relating to recovery of relief.

Prescription slips for individual patients subsidised by the Public Assistance Committee. Includes name of patient, address and medicines prescribed.

Also includes two loose, completed appointment slips for the Medical Officer

Records medical relief delivered to paupers by the District Medical Officer/s of the York Poor Law Union and later the Public Assistance Committee.

Includes name of pauper; residence; nature of disease; date of relief; and days attended by the medical officer. Also notes if patients were ordered into institutions such as the Workhouse Infirmary or Fever Hospital.

Comprises relief books of the District Medical Offices of the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistnce Committee; also includes prescriptions subsidised by the Public Assistance Commitee

Note that the title on the cover of this volume reads ' Abstract of outdoor relief list', however the volume has been used to record relief in kind figures.

Summary accounts listing businesses and organisations that provided vouchers for goods and services, which were then granted as relief in kind to those living in poverty.

Records cover the City District only.

Note, these are financial records and do not contain names of individuals.

Accounts kept by the Relieving officer of the Flaxton Out-Relief Union.

Records weekly sums of money received by the Relieving Officer from the Treasurer, and total amounts of relief charged to each parish or ward.

Summary acccounts for each financial quarter are recorded in the back of each volume.

See PLU/3/5/1/5; PLU/3/5/1/7; PLU/3/5/1/9; PLU/3/5/1/11; and PLU/3/5/1/13 for pre-1897 records for the rural district York Union, which includes the area later covered by the Flaxton Out-Relief Union.

Accounts kept by the Relieving officer of the Escrick Out-Relief Union.

Records weekly sums of money received by the Relieving Officer from the Treasurer, and total amounts of relief charged to each parish or ward.

Summary acccounts for each financial quarter are recorded in the back of each volume.

See PLU/3/5/1/5; PLU/3/5/1/7; PLU/3/5/1/9; PLU/3/5/1/11; and PLU/3/5/1/13 for pre-1897 records for the rural district York Union, which includes the area later covered by the Escrick Out-Relief Union.

Accounts kept by the Relieving Officer of the Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union.

Records weekly sums of money received by the Relieving Officer from the Treasurer, and total amounts of relief charged to each parish or ward.

Summary acccounts for each financial quarter are recorded in the back of each volume.

See PLU/3/5/1/5; PLU/3/5/1/7; PLU/3/5/1/9; PLU/3/5/1/11; and PLU/3/5/1/13 for pre-1897 records for the rural district of the York Union, which includes the area later covered by the Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union.

Relabelled 'North District' on some pages