Public Assistance Committee (Anglesey) Records

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.

Arranged by type of record and date.

• <corpname>Anglesey County Council, Public Assistance Committee</corpname>
• <corpname>Holyhead Poor Law Union</corpname>
• <corpname>Valley Hospital, Anglesey</corpname>

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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.

Penrhos Stanley Hospital, Holyhead.

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.

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

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.