Dunmanway workhouse Board of Guardians (BG83)

Dunmanway Board of Guardians

IE CCCA/BG/83

97.

2 Oct 1906 – 26 Nov 1907

An attendance and voting record, and sheets for statistical and financial minutes, precede minutes of ordinary proceedings. These are followed by sheets for proceedings under the Medical Charities Act. Newscuttings with reports of board and Rural District Council meetings have been pasted in on the last page of most sets of minutes. Reports of analyses of drugs submitted by dispensaries (by Analytical Laboratory, Limerick) have also been inserted. Includes:

2 Oct 1906 Total inmates; 72. Out door relief: 211 persons. Master’s journal extract noting the children w ere taken out for exercise eight

times in the fortnight [a recurring item]. Stated tenders for yearly supplies accepted.

16 Oct 1906 Resolved, to build a new dispensary at Ballineen. Midwife appointed to Dunmanway district, following a vote [see newscutting].

30 Oct 1906 Ordered, on foot of master’s report, that two women deserted by their husbands be discharged, as their husbands are earning money. The board decided to withdraw their appeal in a case for recovery of out door relief granted to a family. 13 Nov 1906 Master’s journal extract reporting a mother and daughter assaulting each other, one taking a knife to the other. Letter from inspector of national schools, reporting ‘the proficiency this year is fair generally’. He thinks the school room ‘rather cold’. Two board members appointed to attend a meeting on university education in Munster and the re- constitution of Queen’s College, Cork. 11 Dec 1906 Master’s journal extract acknowledging that an inmate who gave birth to an illegitimate child must give a sworn information at petty sessions. Scale of meat and fish allowances to officers and inmates for Christmas stated.

8 Jan 1907 Master’s journal extract noting that the Sisters of Charity presented hospital patients and children with ‘a liberal supply’ of treats.

15 Jan 1907 Special meeting adopts annual estimate of £3791 3s 7d.

19 Feb 1907 Master’s journal extract reporting a woman, with five children, admitted ‘under the influence of drink’ and who ‘called the matron filthy names’. She and her da ughter have refused to work on several occasions.

19 Mar 1907 LGB letter explaining that LBG sanction to boarding out a child is not necessary ‘except when the boarding out is in a town or village’.

16 Apr 1907 Meeting adjourned to mark the death of Canon Lane P.P.

30 Apr 1907 Newscutting reports a clerk’s return of out door relief, recording an increase of £188 since September 1897.

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