Catalogue description Public Assistance Committee (Anglesey) Records

This record is held by Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives

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Title: Public Assistance Committee (Anglesey) Records
Description:

Records, 1870-1957, of the Public Assistance Committee, Anglesey County Council, Holyhead Poor Law Union and Valley Hospital, including application and report books, receipt and expenditure books and receipt and payment books for relief districts, 1930-1943; provisions books, 1931-1940; relief order books for relief districts, 1926-1942; Superintendent's book, Bronheulog, Maesgarnedd Children's Home, 1932-1939; medical relief book, 1933-1935; non-settled relief account book, 1937-1940; Master's day book, 1940-1949; admission and discharge books, 1936-1962; registers of inmates, 1933-1957; register of births, 1870-1948; register of deaths, 1930-1947; copy inmates' change of circumstances books, 1945-1948; religious creed registers, 1916-1949; indoor relief lists, 1938-1951; visiting committee's report book, 1913-1947; Master's report book, 1935-1948; Matron's records, 1929-1950; Medical Officer's records, 1942-1951; treatment book, 1940-1948; nurses' day and night report books, 1946-1949; copy letter books, 1945-1948; statements of wages, 1947-1949; shop books, 1948-1950; and miscellaneous records, 1933-1950.
Date: 1870-1957
Arrangement:

Arranged by type of record and date.
Held by: Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Anglesey County Council, Public Assistance Committee

Holyhead Poor Law Union

Valley Hospital, Anglesey
Physical description: 0.052 cubic metres
Restrictions on use:

Usual copyright regulations apply.
Access conditions:

Certain records have a closure date: Admission and discharge book, 1953-1962, is not available until 2013; Register of inmates, 1949-1957 is not available until 2008; Register of births, 1870-1930, is not available until 2006; Register of births, 1930-1948 is not available until 2024; Duplicate notice of birth book, 1944-1946, not available until 2022; Medical Officer's records of examination of inmates not available until 2027; Treatment book, 1940-1948, not available until 2024.
Immediate source of acquisition:

Penrhos Stanley Hospital, Holyhead.
Custodial history:

Some of the volumes in the fonds were used continuously from the period of the Holyhead Union, through the time of the Public Assistance Institution, 1929-1948, and in the period following its abolition.
Selection and destruction information:

All records deposited at Anglesey County Record Office/Archifdy Ynys Môn have been appraised for retention.
Accruals:

Accruals are not expected
Subjects:
  • Anglesey, Wales
  • Poor Law union
  • Hospitals
Unpublished finding aids:

Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Archifdy Ynys Môn/Anglesey County Record Office and the National Register of Archives. It is the policy of Gwasanaeth Archifdy Ynys Môn/Anglesey County Archives Service to catalogue in the language of the document.
Administrative / biographical background:

Following the abolition of Poor Law Unions under the Local Government Act 1929, responsibility for the poor was transferred to the Public Assistance Committee of Anglesey County Council until the foundation of the National Health Service in 1948. The Valley workhouse of the Holyhead Poor Law Union became the Public Assistance Institution, Valley, and in 1948 the Valley Hospital.
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