Dunmanway Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/83
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5 Apr 1845 – 24 Jan 1846
A return of paupers admitted and discharged precedes the ordinary minutes. The volume is not indexed. Includes:
5 Apr 1845 Total inmates: 212 (capacity: 400)
14 Jun 1845 Doctor reports that ‘some of the inmates laboured under Dysentery from the use of porridge during the warm weather’.
16 Aug 1845 Report by Dr Crook, vaccinator, that there were no cases of smallpox in his northern district in the past year ‘and that he had succeeded in putting down the itinerant vaccinators’.
27 Sep 1845 Resol ved, ‘that a five penny rate be struck for the purposes of paying the instalments due of the workhouse loan’.
1 Nov 1845 Resolution reporting to government that ‘the destruction of the potato crop through the rot’ has extended to a third of the crop, and is likely to extend to the remainder. They express satisfaction that ‘the government will take the most prompt and immediate steps to mitigate so fearful a calamity’. Resolved, following the resignation of one vaccinator, that the services of the other be discontinued ‘as the several dispensary physicians are ready and willing to vaccinate in their several districts’. 13 Dec 1845 Resolution regarding the PLC’s determination to reduce the salary of the Protestant chaplain to less than that of the Catholic chaplain. It is noted that the Protestant chaplain attends the workhouse more often, and that the Catholic chaplain is ‘materially assisted ’ by the school teachers, who are both Catholic ‘and in fact were selected on that very account’. The board ‘deem it our duty’ to lay the case before parliament, and to bring the case and other examples of the PLC acting ‘in defiance of the unanimous wishes of the board’ before the proposed committee on the Irish Poor Law. Resolved, that the hospital be used for the increasing number of fever cases. 3 Jan 1846 Report by EW Shuldham [visiting committee], stating that he found the house ‘in excellent order’, and referring to the moving of female patients downstairs owing to the storm, to the employment of school boys in tur ning potatoes, and to ‘great damp admitted under both towers’. 24 Jan 1846 Total inmates:159 Letter received from the PLC architect’s office forwarding plan and specification for a fever hospital. [See also, eg, 2 May and 27 Jun 1846]
Cork City and County Archives 2011
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