Dunmanway Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/83
106.
23 Jan 1917 – 14 May 1918
Following ordinary, financial, and statistical minutes, and before proceedings under the medical charities act, there is a sheet for proceedings under children’s acts (Pauper Children (Ireland) Acts, 1898, 1902; Poor Law Act 1899; Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1900; Infant Life Protection Act 1897; and the Employment of Children Act 1903). Entries are generally brief, noting relieving officer’s reports and school attendance certificates submitted and sent to LGB (reports and certificates not present on minutes). Includes:
23 Jan 1917 Total inmates: 68. Out door relief: 249 persons.
6 Mar 1917 Ordered, reductions in dietary for officers and inmates, on foot of LGB letter regarding Lord Devonport’s appeal to the public. [See, eg, 15 May] Eviction notice submitted at the suit of Lord Bandon. 20 Mar 1917 Resolution expressing ‘great disappointment’ at the LGB’s refusal to sanction Mrs Crowley as nurse ‘owing to her being married’ . They note ‘married women have been found to be most assiduous and attentive to the patients entrusted to their care and are now successfully nursing in many big hospitals in the Empire’ . [See also 12 Nov 1918] Letter from supplier seeking a refund of loss sustained by supplying bacon and flour [under contract] at a price well below present costs. 1 May 1917 LGB letter stating that its inspector’s report ‘is of a generally satisfactory c haracter’, but that it notes ‘the absence of modern sanitary accommodation in the boys’ and girls’ yards’. LGB letter sanctioning an additional payment for maintenance of a boy in the Catholic Institute for the Deaf and Dumb for the remainder of the war. 15 May 1917 Reply to circular from the County Cork Committee of Agriculture, stating that turf is cut throughout the union, but some large bogs in the western portion are not available ‘owing to the actions of the landlords refusing to let the bogs to the people of the district’. Letter to LGB asking whether three children may legally be admitted, their mother having died and their father, a railway worker, unable to care for them but willing to contribute to their upkeep. [See 12 Jun. See also 21 Aug] 24 Jul 1917 Medical officer’s letter approving of a nurse sleeping outside the house when on night duty. Letter from a nurse seeking expenses owing to no nurse from the North Infirmary or elsewhere being available to cover for her when on leave, obliging her to return early. Request declined. Reply to circular regarding woollen and leather goods, stating quantities of goods and prices paid. All goods of Irish manufacture. 21 Aug 1917 Medical officer’s letter recommending that a man who had a leg amputated ‘be supplied with a useful artificial leg of modern make – not one of the peg shaped pattern’. This, he thinks, would allow him to do light work.
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