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York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)
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Governance
PLU/1 · Sub-fonds · 19th century-20th century
Part of York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)

Comprises minutes of committee meetings of the York Poor Law Union (including the York Out-Relief Union, the Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union, the Flaxton Out-Relief Union and the Escrick Out-Relief Union); and from 1930 the Public Assistance Committee.

Also includes the minutes of the Nuisance Removal Committee and the York Rural Sanitary Authority; and minutes of organisations administered by the York Poor Law Union including the York Charities Register Committee and Hodgson's Charity Committee.
Indoor (workhouse) relief
PLU/2 · Sub-fonds · 19th century-20th century
Part of York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)

Comprises records relating to the admission, discharge and maintenance of inmates of the York Workhouse, which was later known at the City Institution and then The Grange). Relief granted within the workhouse was termed 'indoor relief' as opposed to 'outdoor relief' which was granted to the poor in their own homes (i.e.outside the Workhouse).

Also includes records relating to the staffing and administration of the Workhouse.
Children
PLU/6 · Sub-fonds · 19th century-20th century
Part of York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)

Comprises records concerning the welfare of children who came into the care of the York Poor Law Union and later the Pubic Assistance Committee.

Includes records relating to apprenticeships; registers of children boarded out and in farm service; register for enforcing school attendance; and correspondence concerning the boarding out of children.
Assessment and rating
PLU/9 · Sub-fonds · 19th century-20th century
Part of York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)

Comprises records relating to the administration of the poor rate. The poor rate was a local tax on the yearly value of a property, levied by the parish. The money collected from poor rates was used to help finance relief for the poor as well as the infrastructure of administering that relief.

From 1837 to 1925 the York Poor Law Union was responsible for administering the poor rate, and from time to time other rates (such as the lighting rate).
Registration
PLU/10 · Sub-fonds · 19th century-20th century
Part of York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)

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.
Outdoor relief
PLU/3 · Sub-fonds · 19th century-20th century
Part of York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)

Comprises records relating to the administration of relief granted to the poor in their own home (i.e. outside the Workhouse, hence the term 'outdoor relief').

Includes application and report books, weekly outdoor relief lists, relief order books, relief granted on loan, relieving officers' receipt and expenditure books, relief in kind books and records relating to medical relief.
Collection (repayment) of relief
PLU/4 · Sub-fonds · 19th century-20th century
Part of York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)

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.
Finance and accounts
PLU/12 · Sub-fonds · 19th century-20th century
Part of York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)

Comprises financial records relating to the general administration of the York Poor Law Union and Public Assistance Committee.

Includes financial statements; general ledgers; parochial ledgers; treasurers' ledgers; treasurers' receipt and payment books; invoices; petty cash books; receipts; and other account books.

For financial records relating specifically to outdoor relief see PLU/3/5

For financial records relating specifically to the collection of relief see PLU/5/10
York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)
PLU · Fonds · Late 17th century-1960s

Includes records relating to governance of the Union; indoor relief (workhouse relief); outdoor relief; the collection of relief; settlement and removal; child welfare; hospitals and asylums; public health; assessment and rating; civil registration; the general administration of the Union (including staffing); financial records; legal case paper and summonses; and records relating to properties and buildings owned or tenanted by the Union.

Many of the records relating to indoor relief and outdoor relief contain information on individuals.

Includes records of the York Public Assistance Committee, which was responsible for the administration of the Poor Law from 1930-1948.

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Registers of admissions and discharges for York Union Workhouse and successor institutions (the City Institution and The Grange)
PLU/2/1 · Series · 1880-1963
Part of York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)

Includes admission and discharge books for the inmates of the York Workhouse (later called the City Institution and The Grange); admission and discharge books for the casual (wandering) poor; and porters' admission and discharge books.
Waiting list for The Grange Hospital (formerly York Workhouse)
PLU/2/5/10 · Item · 1954-1956
Part of York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)

List of patients waitng for admission into The Grange Hospital. Includes date; name; age; if currently in another hospital; date of notification; home address; diagnosis; informant; telephone number; and outcome.

Includes bundle of correspondence regarding the potential admission of individual patients.
Religious Creed Registers of York Workhouse and successor institutions (City Institution and The Grange)
PLU/2/3 · Series · 1889-1955
Part of York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)

From 1869 Masters of workhouses were required to record the religious affiliation of inmates in Creed Registers so that appropriate measures could be taken in the event of illness or death.

Details recorded in each register vary over time but usually include: name; date of admission; religious creed; name of informant; and in some cases date of discharge or death. Registers from 1906 record occupation and address of relation or friend. Registers from 1908 include 'place admitted from' or 'where slept last night' in each entry.

At the outbreak of war in 1939 the infirmary of the old workhouse was equipped to become an Emergency Medical Services Hospital. The infirmary received 77 non-civilian patients in 1939, 623 in 1940 and 434 in 1941. Creed Registers from 1939-1941 therefore record admissions details of military war casualties (see refs PLU/2/3/17-19)

From 1942 emergency medical patients were treated at the new hospital which had opened next door to the infirmary.

Entries are either listed in rough alphabetical order or indexed.
Admission and discharge books for the casual poor of City Institution/The Grange (previously York Workhouse)
PLU/2/1/2 · Sub-series · 1930-1954
Part of York Poor Law Union and Workhouse records (including records of the York Public Assistance Committee)

Admission and discharge books kept by the Master of City Institution/The Grange (previously York Workhouse).
The terms 'vagrants', 'casuals' or 'the casual poor' were used in reference to individuals who were homeless, destitute and wandered (tramped) from place to place.

Entries include name; age; gender; occupation; place of sleeping the previous night; date of admission and date of discharge; next destination; in some cases the task performed to earn relief is recorded.