Castletown Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/59
62.
30 Aug 1894 – 21 Feb 1895
Ordinary minutes are followed by supplemental sheets containing minutes of proceedings under the Medical Charities Act and Public Health Acts, and by proceedings as the Rural Sanitary Authority. Many meetings are marked as not having been held owing to non-attendance of guardians, although statistical returns and some administrative fields are still completed for each week.
Includes:
30 Aug 1894 Letter from the inspector to the board under the Cattle Diseases (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1893, regarding a case of swine fever at Dunboy Castle. [A recurring item. See also 20 Sep, when notice was received of the new Diseases of Animals Act 1894 and orders under the act relating to rabies and swine fever. See also 31 Jan 1895, regarding the Markets and Fairs Swine Fever (Ireland) Order 1895] Board of Public Works letter regarding a loan of £500 to the board for waterworks. [See also 15 Nov and 27 Dec 1894] Medical officer’s report and memorial by seven inhabitants read regarding the need for a sewer to alleviate a cesspool in the village of Ardgroom. 20 Sep 1894 List of tenders accepted for the three month supply of food, drinks, and other goods. LGB letter referring to the recent inspection of dispensary districts and noting that the Kilcatherine Dispensary Committee have not been meeting regularly. 27 Sep 1894 Relieving officer’s report stating that the two orphans out at nurse in his district are ‘clean and well fed and clad and reg ularly sent to school and to their religious duties’. Extracts from the report of Dr Browne, medical inspector, relating to sanitary shortcomings in Castletown and Eyeries. [The report, and that of Dr Lyne, medical officer of Castletown Dispensary District, both draw attention to Castletown’s defective sewerage . See also, e.g., 18 Oct and 29 Nov 1894, when Lyne warns ‘if this state of things is allowed to go on an epidemic of typhoid or some other fever will probably be the result’ ]. 4 Oct 1894 Statements of account: Castletown Dispensary; Public Health; Superannuation; Cattle Diseases; Burial Grounds; Establishment; Collectors’ Poundage; and Invoice. LGB letter regarding provision of an ambulance for conveying persons to the workhouse hospital. 18 Oct 1894 LGB circular letter regarding the hiring out of pauper children, forwarding a form of application and agreement [forms not present]. Resolution forwarded to John Morley M.P. [Chief Secretary for Ireland], asking him to ‘grant the certificate for an industrial school’ sought by ‘the nuns in Castletownbere’, and asking him to take into account ‘the barrenness
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