Dunmanway Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/83
‘in the Bealangeary Division of Dunmanway Union’, the board not thinking it necessary to advertise separately. They ask if this is now required.
19 Aug 1919 Report of LG Inspector on boarded out children considered [reference is made to a child being instructed in dressmaking, another being apprenticed to a tailor] Resolution adopting a new dietary with increased rations [LGB letter, same date, notes ‘1lb of bread is the equivalent in food value to 4lbs potatoes’.]
108.
16 Sep 1919 – 27 Nov 1920
Includes:
16 Sep 1919 Total inmates: 42. Out door relief: 244 persons Letter from Secretary, Irish Transport and General Workers Union, requesting a wage increase for the messenger. Application refused. [29 Jun] Tenders accepted for food, goods, and labour. Scale of salaries for medical officers used in Bandon Union adopted. 30 Sep 1919 Resolution condemning the keeping of political prisoners in Cork prison in solitary confinement ‘which is a means of forcing them to hunger strike... we call on the public at large to watch the treatment meted out to John Murphy, Ardcahan, Dunmanway, and his brave comrades’. 14 Oct 1919 Tender accepted for conveying patients from Dunmanway to the workhouse, and burying bodies in Fanlobus. Resolved, ‘that on Arbour Day, 16 young trees be planted on Workhouse grounds’. 11 Nov 1919 LGB letter, referring to an ongoing case, noting that a child ‘if deserted when boarded out... cannot now be claimed by her mother, unless the la tter shows she is a fit person to take charge of her’. The relieving officer reports that the child’s present foster mother refuses to give her up. [23 Dec] 9 Dec 1919 Master reports accidental death of a child [post mortem held]. Letter from the board’s solicitor reporting that the defendant did not appear in a case for maintenance of her two illegitimate children, but that her employer stated he was prepared to pay for them while in the workhouse. Resolved, ‘after a very heated argument’, to appeal a maintenance case to the Cork Assizes. [See note 8 Jul above. 2 Oct 1920: directed to Sinn Fein court] 2 Mar 1920 Master reports a family of seven admitted casually, twice some weeks, ‘especially before the fair days in town’. He notes the children ought to be sent to school, and refers to the School Inspection Committee.
30 Mar 1920 Resolution of adjournment and sympathy on the death of the Lord Mayor of Cork. [See 15 Jun]
2 5 May 1920 master reports that the military visited on 16 May ‘to select accommodation for the troops’ and occupied part of the male side of the house that evening.
Cork City and County Archives 2011
Page 27 of 28
Powered by FlippingBook