Youghal Board of Guardians IE CCCA/BG/163
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List of Items and Descriptions
1. Minute Books 1850 – 1924 (131 items)
BG/163/A
Board of Guardians Minute Books
Scope and Content: A record of proceedings, decisions, orders, and reports made and received by the board of guardians in administering Youghal Union and the workhouse in particular; such as, statistical tables of admissions, births, discharges and deaths, no. of sick inmates etc. in the workhouse on a weekly basis; reports of officers, securing and payment for supplies, staff appointments and pay. Later volumes have, in general, more pages, but often contain more blank entries and less detailed information.
Date : 17 June 1850 – 29 Apr 1924
Level : Series
Extent : 130 vols (each generally c.150 - 200pp in size)
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17 Jun 1850 – 17 Jan 1851
Includes: (17 June 1850, p1) State of the workhouse, week ending Saturday, 15 June 1850. Total of 1088 inmates with 178 in hospital. (17 June 1850, p7) Special Business, ordered that the Masters of Dungarvan, Lismore, Fermoy, and Midleton workhouses be requested to return forms recording numbers and classification of paupers chargeable to the Youghal Union each week. (21 June 1850 p17) Special Business, ordered that the Board of Guardians of Midleton Union appoint a committee to meet with a committee of the Youghal Board, to value the remaining stock in the several auxiliary workhouses. (19 Jul 1850, p60) Masters estimate of provisions and necessaries required for ensuing week, including 1000lbs of white bread, 6400lbs of brown bread, 27 cwt of indian meal, 4700 qts of milk, 112lbs of beef, 3 tons of coal, 14lbs soda. (26 Jul 1850, p70) Report of Medical Officer, condition of inmates is generally satisfactory, but ophthalmic cases are undiminished, measles also apparent, coffee has been issued instead of milk to dysenteric cases (25 Oct 1850 , p238) Master reports 26lbs of bread ‘taken in a forcible manner’ by the able bodied inmates from the schoolmaster when about to serve the dinner to the school boys. (20 Dec 1850, p343) Resolved that the ‘dietary on Christmas day’ shall consist of
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