Dunmanway Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/83
3.
31 Jan 1846 – 28 Nov 1846
Includes:
7 Feb 1846 Resolution protesting ‘in the strongest manner’ at the PLC fixing a salary of £45 for the Catholic chaplain, noting that this imposes an expense of £90 ‘as the Protestant chaplain declines to accept a less salary than hi s brother clergyman’. The board feels the PLC is using its powers ‘unreasonably and capriciously’, and resolves not to pay such a salary ‘until we are compelled to do so by the Court of Queen’s Bench’. 28 Feb 1848 Guardians selected to give evidence to a House of Lords committee on the operation of the poor law and medical charities. Points to be raised include ‘excessive powers’ vested in the PLC, the necessity of a mendicancy act, the equalising of the size of unions, effective punishment for desertion, salaries of officers, and placing medical charities ‘under competent medical supervision, and under the control of boards of guardians’. 21 Mar 1846 Report by EW Shuldham [visiting committee] regarding the workhouse, referring to ‘the holiday (St Patricks day) given to every body’, and noting ‘some improvement in the paupers as to the Indian Meal which they continue however to protest against at breakfast’. [See also, eg, 9 May] 28 Mar 1846 Resolution stating that ‘the potato disease has increased in this district to such an alarming extent that we are of opinion that some decided step must be taken to afford employment to the labouring classes’. 18 Apr 1846 Order, in response to PLC circular, noting that the board ‘find it impossible to get persons to act as wardens in the E[ast] Division of the union gratuitously ’, and that guardians be requested to act as wardens, as heretofore. 18 Jul 1846 Report of Building and House Committee regarding ‘the mode of emptying the cess pools of the house by means of shieves and buckets, worked by the paupers’, which they consider ‘highly objectionable’, noting ‘the disagreeable and degrading duty which the unfortunate paupers are called on to execute’. 1 Aug 1846 [Medical officer’s] report expressing the view that ‘the removal of the old men to the potato store room consequent on the pro tempore medical arrangements’ is ‘highly objectionable’. Resolution directed to the Lord Lieutenant regarding ‘alarming’ reports of the early manifestation of blight in the potato crop and ‘the distress too evidently impending over the classes of our community which have been in the habit of looking to the potato for their chief support’. Resolution noting ‘that the want of their usual occupations after the approaching harvest will have a tendency to the discharge of labourers by farmers’, with ‘evil results’, and that ‘consequently we must look to the Board of Works for continued employment on an extensive scale’.
8 Aug 1846 Letter from the Education Office quoting the superintendent’s
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