Register of incoming general correspondece to the Public Assistance Committee.
Includes date, name of correspondent, and subject of letter.
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.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence
Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance AuthorityComprises combined files of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Public Assistance Committee.
Typed minutes
Correspondence and accounts for non-settled poor. Includes name of individual receiving relief, council chargeable, and amount of relief granted.
Statistical returns concerning numbers of patients and staff
Filed alphabetically by name of patient
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.
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.
Includes name; address; and details of sick leave and holiday leave.
Also includes some correspondence
Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence related to the administration of the institution.
Includes copies of some outgoing correspondence
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 loose interment certificates for some individuals.
Concerns rest centres established in York during World War II. Indexed
Registers of property belonging to patients at The Grange. Includes name; date of admission and discharge; list of property and/or cash; and who received the property.
Details of accounts credited and payments made to the treasurer. Includes one piece of loose correspondence inserted inside front cover.
Contains lists of articles and suppliers
Masters/superintendent's monthly report and inmates returns
Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence; also lists of York and East Riding Cases to be examined by Visitors, lists of visits to be made and reports returned.
Includes loose correspondence
Reports from the superintendent nurse to the House Committee
Notices filed alphabetically by surname
Records type of cloth received and clothing items made.
Typed minutes. Indexed
Includes name of patient; date admitted; date discharged; and in some cases further remarks. Includes two loose items: a list of mental patients for whom there are no files and a list of patients maintained by other county authorities.
Lists patients in alphabetical order by surname.
See also Returns of Pauper Lunatics Y/HEA/6/1/1