Town Clerk's clearance papers for King Street.
Bootham Row and Bootham Square improvement papers
Town Clerk's clearance papers for Navigation Road.
Comprises records relating to the following streets:
1) for Navigation Road (Central); Navigation Road; Speculation Street; School Street
2) for Navigation Road (North): Navigation Road; Constitution Place; Rosemary Hill; Rosemary Place; St Margaret's Terrace; and School Street.
3) Alexandra Yard, Hill's Y arid and McQuade Yard.
Improvement papers for the Walmgate area.
Comprises papers for improvement of unhealthy housing. Includes house inspection reports; closing orders, correspondence; reports of necessary improvements; and in some cases plans and demolition orders. Note: house inspection reports usually record the name/s of the owner and occupier. Most files include a summary page of actions taken. See also Y/PPT/2/1/8/38 for Hungate clearance papers.
Comprises stubs recording when a nurse has been notified of the Poor Law Officers' Superannuation Act, 1896 and replies of nurses who do not wish to avail themselves of the act.
Comprises files of successful applicants only
Registers of staff service compiled principally to record superannuation payments. Includes name of staff member, office/position held, salary, dates of commencement and termination of service. May also include particulars of previous service.
Note: these volumes are dated according to the commencement date of staff, however there appear to be a small number of entries outside the covering dates. All volumes are indexed by surname of staff member.
See also PLU/11/3/3/5 York Poor Law Union Superannuation Registers
Summary financial statements recording total receipts and expenditure by the Guardians of the York Union.
Statements are completed for each half-year ending in March and September.
Outgoing correspondence from the Clerk of the York Poor Law Union to the Local Government Board.
Note that these are wet copy letter books and many of the letters are difficult to read owing to the poor quality of the copying process.
These letterbooks are not indexed.
Comprises summary accounts of amounts received and expended from the poor rate by the parish overseers and Board of Guardians of the York Out-Relief Union. Some returns include balance sheets of the parish overseers.
Certificates of service for staff to support superannuation claims
Comprises files of successful applicants only
Incoming correspondence from the Local Government Board to the Clerk of the York Poor Law Union
Improvement papers.
Comprises files of successful applicants only
Printed catalogues and class lists of the works contained in the York Public Library.
York Public LibraryImprovement papers
Comprises reports of house to house inspections carried out by the Medical Officer of Health and the Inspector of Nuisances. Includes details of owners, occupiers, size and condition of house.
Comprises summary accounts of amounts received and expended from the poor rate by the parish overseers and Board of Guardians of the Flaxton Out-Relief Union. Some returns include balance sheets of the parish overseers.
Comprises summary accounts of amounts received and expended from the poor rate by the parish overseers and Board of Guardians of the Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union. Some returns include balance sheets of the parish overseers.
Registers intended to record superannuation contributions made by staff. Note, entries in these registers have not been completed. See also PLU/11/3/3/12 York Poor Law Union Service Registers
Papers and architectural drawings relating to the formation of the York Public Library.
York Public LibraryParticulars and conditions of sale for properties and land to be sold by York Corporation following improvements and clearances in the Castlegate and Water Lane area. Includes land and property in Clifford Street, Tower Street, King's Staith, and a 'proposed new street'.
Includes statement of account; draft cash account and supplemental statement (cash account).
Licensing appeal papers for public houses within the Castlegate and Water Lanes Improvement Scheme. Includes recognizances, objections and licensing papers.
Replies from property owners regarding notice to apply for a provisional order for the Castlegate and Water Lane Improvement Scheme. These are pre-printed forms on which owners were asked to register their assent, dissent or neutrality to the scheme. See Y/PPT/2/3/3/5 for notices sent to owners, occupiers and lessees.
Notices served to owners, occupiers and lessees of the application to the Local Government Order for a provisional order for compulsory purchase to improve the Castlegate and Water Lane area. The notices include the names of the occupiers, owners and lessees (where relevant), a description of the property, and the plan number of the property. See also Y/PPT/2/3/3/6 for owners replies.
Comprises correspondence and related papers regarding the accommodation and maintenance of pauper lunatics.
Comprises draft minutes, and correspondence to the Committee and the Local Board of Health.
Comprises agreements between York Corporation and property owners regarding the sale of land in order to widen the First Water Lane (King Street). Includes a subscription list for improvements, and legal papers for the transfer of property.
Comprises two volumes for the Mar 1847
Comprises two volumes for the Mar 1847
Includes list of names, addresses and occupations of individuals elected in all four wards of York.
Comprises 2 volumes for the June 1842 quarter
Only the item dated 1837 lists returns for all four wards.
Comprises 2 volumes for Dec 1837 quarter
Box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). The slides include images of patients individuals suffering from the effects of syphilis, as well as information slides on how the disease is spread and its treatment.
Glass negatives with public health information on the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis. Includes slides of children with various diseases; pictures of housing; image of a [?]model dairy; a laboratory; and a York Health Department display. Box marked: 'By Longstaff'.
Box of glass plate negatives belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Glass plate negatives of children receiving treatment from nurses at the School Medical Clinic and images of infants at Fishergate Creche.
Box of glass plate negatives belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Box labelled: 'Best negatives of School Clinic: nurses at work; School Clinic: Mrs Potter at work; School Clinic: the Dentist at work; Knavesmire School: the spray bath and open air classrooms'. Also labelled: 'Hanstock's negatives'
Includes material relating to libraries outside of the City of York Council boundary, which were retained by the library service for reference.
Box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). The slides include images of patients with infectious diseases, health statistics and informational slides on health.
A box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes slides covering various areas of health education including anatomy, botany, and bacteriology.
Series of 50 lantern slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes slides of Knavesmire School, York Maternity Hospital, housing, infant mortality and general health warnings.
Box of slides featuring mainly classical sculptures and paintings.
Glass negatives with public health information on the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis. Includes images of specimens in milk, chart of the School Medical Service, chart of health services for consumptives, map showing distribution of cases, image of a young boy. Also includes film negative of an unknown treatment facility. Box marked: 'By Watson'
Box of glass plate negatives belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes images of open-air classrooms and spray baths. Box labelled: 'Mr Hanstock's negatives of Knavesmire School.'
Includes Subject indexes to Periodicals, annual reports for the Yorkshire branch,
A box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). The slides include images of poor housing in York, a plan of a cottage at Port Sunlight, plans of back to back, flats and square blocks of streets. Also includes an image of a model of a model street of housing in York. Note, this box also contains a written list of slides that bears little resemblance to the contents of the box - it is likely that this list was used simply as packing material.
A box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes images of a patient with adenoids, a plan of a cottage at Port Sunlight, demonstration of window ventilators, a patient room at Kelling Sanatorium in Norfolk, demolition of a house, and birth and death rates 1893-1902.
A box of slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes slides of historical health statistics; educational slides relating to germs; images of Louis Pasteur, Lord Lister and Dr Woodhead, and a slide of an unknown building.
Series of lantern slides belonging to Edmund Moody Smith (Medical Officer of Health). Includes images of Goodramgate, Bedern, St Leonard's, Skeldergate, Walmgate, and St Martin's Micklegate.
Glass plate negatives with public health information on the prevention, spread and treatment of Tuberculosis. Includes statistical slides and slides with text. Also includes image of a plan of York with each death by consumption marked for the period 1902-1909. Box marked: 'Slides for Langstaff. Negs. and Jeyes'
Glass negatives with public health information on the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis. Includes images of model housing and a patient shelter, microscopic images of the Bacilli, charts and prevention techniques. Box marked: 'Pictures by Watson and Longstaff'
Includes correspondence, tenders and architectural drawings relating to the proposed new York Public Library building in Museum Street.
York Public LibraryPrimarily includes papers relating to the opening of the library.