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Typed minutes

Approved typed minutes of the Public Assistance Committee

Wet copy letter book. Note that some of the letters in this book may be difficult to read because of the poor quality of the copies. Comprises copies of typed letters.
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Wet copy letter book. Note that some of the letters in this book may be difficult to read because of the poor quality of the copies. Comprises copies of typed letters.
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Wet copy letter book. Note that some of the letters in this book may be difficult to read because of the poor quality of the copies. Comprises copies of typed letters.
Indexed

Wet copy letter book. Note that some of the letters in this book may be difficult to read because of the poor quality of the copies. Comprises copies of typed letters.
Indexed

Wet copy letter book. Note that some of the letters in this book may be difficult to read because of the poor quality of the copies. Comprises copies of typed letters.
Indexed

Wet copy letter book. Note that some of the letters in this book may be difficult to read because of the poor quality of the copies. Comprises copies of typed letters
This volume is not fully indexed.

Wet copy letter book. Note that some of the letters in this book may be difficult to read because of the poor quality of the copies. Comprises copies of handwritten letters.
Indexed

Wet copy letter book. Note that some of the letters in this book may be difficult to read because of the poor quality of the copies. Comprises copies of handwritten letters.
Indexed

Comprises incoming letters from the Registrar General and other officers of the General Register Office in London to the Superintendent Registrar in York; and outgoing letters from the Superintendent Registrar to the General Register Office.

Includes instructions, memoranda and acts printed by the General Register Office.

General outgoing correspondence of the Superintendent Registrar of the York Poor Law Union.

Most of the correspondence concerns procedural issues and irregularities in the registration of births, marriages and deaths. (See also PLU/11/1/2)

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.

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Comprises removal orders received and obtained, and settlement enquiries pursued by the York Public Assistance Committee

Includes correspondence, primarily between Poor Law Unions, relating to settlement cases that were not accepted by the York Union. Correspondence may include significant biographical details for some cases.

Includes minutes of all committees connected to the administration and maintenance of the York Union Workhouse (later the City Institution and then The Grange)

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Includes name of child; name of foster parent; residence of foster parent; date of boarding out; relationship of child to foster parents; amount of relief granted to foster parents and additional remarks.

Unbound typed minutes and agenda. Includes minutes of sub-committees reporting to the Public Assistance (later Social Welfare) Committee.

Papers concerning a legal dispute between North Eastern Railway [NER] and the York Poor Law Union regarding valuation and rating of NER railway property for the purposes of the poor rate.

This material has not been listed to item level but the following summary box list provides an indication of content:

Box 1 [c 1899-1901]
Printed copies of arbitration between North Eastern Railway and York Poor Law Union

Box 2 [c 1898-1902]
Includes: extracts of rate books, surveyors' reports and proofs, notice of appeal to the York Assessment Committee, sketch of NER lines, documents concerning related cases.

Box 3 [c 1899-1900]
Includes: notices of objections to valuation lists, notices of Assessment Committee meetings, correspondence, agreements, contracts, notices of appeal against the poor rate.

Box 4 [c 1899-1903]
Includes: correspondence, rating estimates and valuations, documents concerning related cases

Box 5 [c 1900-1903]
Includes: correspondence and related papers regarding contracts with York Union.

Box 6 [c 1900-1901]
Includes: rating assessments, statements, rating valuations and estimates, proofs of reports from engineers, building particulars and valuations, correspondence.

Box 7[c 1899-1902]
Includes: correspondence regarding inspections by expert witnesses, proofs of reports from experts, building valuation, papers for related cases, estimates and valuations.

Box 8 [c 1901-1902]
Includes: rating appeals, instructions to counsel, papers relating to plaintiff accounts and claims, briefs to counsel, correspondence, proofs of reports from experts

Box 9 [c 1898-1902]
Includes: brief to counsel and respondents, correspondence, proofs of reports from experts, documents for related cases

Box 10 [c 1900-1903]
Includes: Notice of objections to valuation list, appeals against the poor rate, correspondence, proofs of reports from experts.

Box 11 [c 1899-1901]
Includes: correspondence, rating appeals, legal opinions and other papers.

Box 12 [c 1898-1902]
Includes: rating appeals, briefs for respondents, valuation and building particulars.

Box 13 [c 1900-1901]
Includes: NER timetables for 1901, briefs for respondents and counsel, valuations, documents for related case.

Box 14 [c 1898-1903]
Includes: correspondence, extracts from rate books, valuations

Box 15 [c 1898-1900]
Includes: passenger train alterations 1900-1901, briefs to counsel, correspondence, proofs of reports from experts, instructions to counsel.

Box 16 [c 1900-1903]
Includes: brief for defendants, analysis of plaintiff's accounts, assessments and valuations, correspondence.

Box 17 [c 1898-1902]
Includes: list of legal fees, correspondence, rating appeals, documents for related cases.

Box 18 [c 1899-1901]
Includes: correspondence, notices of appeal against the poor rate, valuations, documents for related cases.

Box 19 [c 1898-1900]
Includes: proofs of reports from experts, valuation lists, correspondence, notices of appeal against the poor rate, briefs for respondents.

Box 20 [c 1898-1900]
Includes: correspondence, notices of appeal against the poor rate, valuation lists, proofs of reports from experts.

Box 21 [c 1897-1902]
Includes: extracts from rate books, correspondence, briefs for respondents, accounts of plaintiff.

Box 22 [c 1898-1902]
Includes: correspondence, extracts from rate books, briefs to counsel, notices of appeal against the poor rate, valuations.

Box 23 [c 1900-1902]
Correspondence only

Box 24 [c 1898-1900]
Includes: proofs of reports from experts, valuations, statements, correspondence, documents for related case.

Box 25 [c 1898-1903]
Correspondence only

Box 26 [c 1900-1902]
Includes: proofs of reports from experts, bills of costs.

Box 27 [c 1899-1902]
Includes: instructions to counsel, reports, correspondence, documents for related case.

Box 28 [c 1900-1901]
Includes: briefs to counsel and respondents, correspondence.

Handwritten minutes. Indexed

Non-resident poor appear at the front of the ledger; non-settled poor appear at the back of the ledger. Includes name of individual/family receiving relief; parish of settlement; union or parish advancing relief; class of pauper; and amount of relief.

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).

Includes details of poor persons suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.

Note, this volume contains only three entries.

Comprises records relating to the preventative public health measures administered by the York Poor Law Union.

Includes vaccination registers; register of tuberculosis notifications; and correspondence of the York Rural Sanitary Authority.

Comprises records relating to the maintenance of pauper patients in hospitals and asylums.

Includes records relating to the City Fever Hospital at Yearsley Bridge; the York City Mental Hospital at Naburn; and Grove House, a private asylum at Acomb.

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.

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.

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.