Dunmanway Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/83
List of Items and Descriptions
1. Minute Books
BG/83/A
Dunmanway Board of Guardians Minute Books
Scope and Content: A record of meetings and decisions made by the board of guardians in administering the workhouse and poor relief generally. At meetings, officers’ reports and committee findings were heard, correspondence read and considered, and applications decided on. Matters arising with regard to the workhouse, staff, provisions, bills, finance, the Poor Law, the Poor Law Commissioners, the Local Government Board and the Local Government Department, and other issues, were also discussed. The minutes also include weekly statistics of admissions, discharges, and deaths in the workhouse, and of outdoor relief.
Date : 1 Feb 1840 – 27 Nov 1920
Level : Series
Extent : 105 volumes
1.
1 Feb 1840 – 29 Mar 1845
Indexed. Includes:
1 Feb 1840 First meeting, resolved that Daniel Conner be appointed chairman.
13 Feb 1840 Tender of Messrs Gillman, Welply, and Pattison to effect the valuation of the union accepted, to be completed by 1 Jan 1841.
25 Apr 1840 ‘Resolved, that the guardians having viewed the intended site for the Dunmanway Poor House fully approve thereof’ [30 May: resolved to seek loan of £6500 from the Exchequer Loan Commissioners] 7 Nov 1840 Resolved, that medical practitioners be informed that the board will ‘receive tenders for the vaccination purposes of the entire union’ [14 Nov: D r Holmes’s tender ‘to vaccinate the intern union gratuitously’ accepted]. 27 Feb 1841 Master, matron, physician, and porter of workhouse appointed. Resolution calling for an act against mendicancy, expressing the view that the poor law will remain ineffective ‘while strolling beggars are allowed exercise the trade of begging and imposing upon the small farmers and industrious who are very little better situated than themselves’.
24 Apr 1841Charges preferred against returning office John Welply by John Barter, in connection with the recent board of guardians election. He claims
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