File Y/HEA/1/2/1 - Miscellaneous papers

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1) St Thomas' Vicarage - Disposal of vicarage and adjoining land known as St Ann's Close, Haxby Road, as being too big for present day requirements, 29 Aug 1947 - Housing & Estates Department suggest use by other Departments 5 Sep 1947 - Education Committee interested in land (6 Sep 1947) and Social Welfare in property (12 Sep 1947) - Report of City Engineer, 3 Sep 1947 - Property could serve as annex to City Hospital Nurses Home 12 Sep 1947 - Proposed use of vicarage as Occupation Centre for Mental Defectives 20 Oct 1948;
2) Housing Act 1936 - 5 and 5a Skeldergate, 8 Dalguise Grove, overcrowded and to be vacated, 13 Jul 1943 - 55 Micklegate,Old Brewery (Tadcaster), overcrowded - Situation rectified, 16 Jul 1948;
4) Woolpack Hotel, Fawcett Road, inadequate sanitation, 5 Jan 1949, and Licence refused, 12 Feb 1949;
5) 1-5 Vicar Row, Layerthorpe, owned by York, Harrogate JY District Group of Gas Companies, Harrogate, unsanitary living conditions; Demolition Order made and occupiers served with notice to quit, 23 Jul 1949;
6) Sanitary Accommodation in Voluntary Schools - Report made to Education Committee, 7 Apr 1949, and to Medical Officer of Health, 9 Apr 1949 Education Committee Review of Sanitary Accommodation 1949/50, 22 Dec 1949 Index of Reports on individual schools and institutions;
7) Proposed Hostel Accommodation for Unmarried Mothers - Highfield House, Norton, too big for needs of East Riding County Council and offered to York on suitable terms, 13 Oct 1949 - Analyses of figures for York for 6 months May-October 1949, 5 Nov 1949 - Highfield House unsuitable for York needs, 5 Nov 1949;
8) British Rail Dynamos, Holgate - Nuisance caused by noise, especially during night shift, 31 Oct 1949 - Signed Petition - Medical Officer of Health and Chief Sanitary Inspector investigate and endeavour to seek amelioration, 19 Dec 1949 - Situation improved, 11 Feb 1950;
9) Shop Premises - Whip-ma-Whop-ma-Gate, owned by Hunter the Teaman Ltd, Manchester - Unsuitable conditions for sale of food, 30 Nov 1949 Owner says little point in making improvement as he understands property due for demolition to enable new roadway to Peaseholme Green - Little possibility of permission being granted for new road in near future, so Chief Sanitary Inspector's requirements to be carried out (20 Jan 1950) and situation rectified, 26 Jan 1950;
10) Garage, Yearsley Bridge Hospital - Correspondence with York 'A' and Tadcaster Hospital Management Committee over a disagreement of its use by other Departments, 5 Dec 1949 - 26 Apr 1950;
11) Land between 31 Heworth Hall Drive and the Conservative Club - Correspondence concerning complaint as to land being used as a public dumping ground, 28 Aug 1950 - 16 May 1950;
12) Hydrogen Cyanide (Fumigation) Act 1937 - Home Office circular letter, 4 Jan 1952, and Statutory Instruction 1951 NTo.1759 (Fumigation of Buildings) and No.1760 (Fumigation of Ships) as bearing on Corporation Depot, Foss Islands Road, 5 Mar 1952;
13) NHS (Amendment) Act 1949, Section 25 County Councils Association and Association of Municipal Corporations Joint circular letters 21 Nov 1951 & 19 May 1952 concerning Medical Practitioners' Fees;
14) Knackers Yards and Slaughter of Horses - Ministry of Food circular letters 3 Oct 1952, 14 Nov 1952 and 18 Nov 1952, concerning slaughter of horses - Association of Municipal Corporations circulars regarding registration of Knackers Yards and Slaughterhouses, 26 Nov 1952 - No Knackers Yards in York! 12 Nov 1952;
15) The Bungalow, Moor Lane, Dringhouses - Correspondence regarding, 11 Queens Road, Harrogate, 28 May 1952 - 9 Jul 1952;
16) Case of RAWLENCE v. Croydon Corporation - Judgment (given in favour of Defendant) 25 Jul 1952

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