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.
Includes copies of some outgoing correspondence
Indexed
Concerns rest centres established in York during World War II. Indexed
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Typed minutes
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Includes name of pauper and grounds for detention.
Includes name of institution; name of child; date of birth; date admitted; further remarks and accounts. Indexed.
Includes some minutes and agendas
Masters/superintendent's monthly report and inmates returns
Comprises order books of relief granted by the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930, the Public Assistance Committee. Also includes register of individual paupers relieved by the York Out-Relief Union.
Rest centres were established during World War II. The purpose of the centres was to house individuals who became homeless as a result of enemy action.
The correspondence in these files primarily concerns the administration of the various centres throughout York.
Correspondence in both files is indexed.
Notices filed alphabetically by surname
Approved typed minutes of the Public Assistance Committee
Relief order books were kept by the Clerk of the York Poor Law Union and later the Public Assistance Committee.
The books record orders for out-relief granted by the York Guardians/Public Assistance Committee in response to applications put forward by the Relieving Officer (see PLU/3/1 Application and Report books).
Details entered into the books include: name of applicant seeking relief, name of parish/relief district; quantity and description of relief; and how many weeks relief was granted.
Note that books were dated in quarterly periods. For example Mar 1910-Sep 1910 = quarter ending in March to quarter ending in September and would therefore cover the months Jan-Sep 1910.
Copy receipts of payments received and payments made to City Treasurer
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Filed chronologically
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Register of orders obtained by the York Public Assistance Committee. These orders relate to individuals living in York and receiving relief but legally settled elsewhere.
Includes name, type of order, council of settlement, type of relief (e.g. whether institutional or out-relief), date of order, date of expiration and, in some cases, further remarks.
Register of removal orders received from other councils by the York Public Assistance Committee. These orders relate to inviduals legally settled in York but residing elsewhere and receiving relief from other councils.
Includes name, type of order, council sending the order, type of relief received (e.g. institutional or out-relief), date of order, and, in some cases, further remarks.
List of cases referred for investigation into their legal place of settlement.
Includes date referred, name, type of relief received (e.g. institutional, mental hospital, or out-relief), and place of settlement.
Also includes loose case papers for the removal of an individual in 1938.
Indexed
Records total numbers of men, women and children in institutions for the period Apr 1942-June 1948. Records total numbers in receipt of out-relief for the period Apr 1942-Jul 1943.
Includes name of individual receiving relief from the Public Assistance Committee; address; date relief granted; amount of relief and reason for granting relief.
Note that most of this register is blank; only the first eight pages have been used.
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Includes name; date of admission; age; occupation; disease; if admitted from another insitution and class of poor (i.e. settled or casual poor). Also three loose inserts: two lists of revision cases and one agenda (1948).
Entries listed in chronological order of admission
Filed alphabetically by correspondent or patient
Records visits of chaplain to individual inmates as well as baptisms and services.
Details of accounts credited and payments made to the treasurer. Includes one piece of loose correspondence inserted inside front cover.
Only first few pages used
Filed alphabetically by correspondent or patient
Typed minutes. Indexed
Typed minutes
Comprises weekly statistical returns recording the number and category of persons in receipt of relief; also monthly summary relief statistics; and weekly returns from the various relief districts to the Public Assistance Committee.
Includes name of case; and whether in institution, discharged, or deceased.
Relief lists record the amounts of out-relief (i.e. welfare payments in money or in kind) granted to individiuals on a weekly basis. Lists were kept by the Relieving Officers of the York Poor Law Union. Note that these lists record payments to individuals who were not in the workhouse.
Comprises weekly outdoor relief lists; abstracts of outdoor relief lists; and index of persons appearing in outdoor relief lists.
Comprises receipts and registers of relief granted on loan to individuals by the York Poor Law Union, and, after 1930 the Public Assistance Committee.
Minutes and agenda of the meetings of the Public Assistance Committee (renamed the Social Welfare Committee from 17 Jul 1947 to Aug 1948). Comprises approved and draft minutes.
The Pubic Assistance Committee met to discuss and approve a range of matters relating to the administration of the poor law.
The minutes may include references to named individuals if there was a reason for bringing an individual case to the attention of the Committee .
Note that agenda only exist for the period Feb1946-July 1948.
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.
Sem títuloApproved, bound minutes
Orders concerning classification of inmates
Includes name of inmate; age; and action taken.