Schull Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/145
List of Items and Descriptions
1. Minute Books
BG/145/A
Schull 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 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 : 13 May 1920 – 28 Apr 1924
Level : Series
Extent : 3 volumes
1.
13 May 1920 – 17 Oct 1921
Minutes of ordinary meetings are followed by supplemental sheets for financial and statistical minutes, and for proceedings under the Medical Charities Acts mainly relating to dispensary district medical services.
Includes:
13 May 1920 Total inmates: 36. Outdoor relief cases: 66 persons.
17 Jun 1920 Resolved, ‘that no lists of ratepayers for information of British agents be drawn up in these offices nor any facilities given for copying or taking extracts from rate or valuation books for above, and we ask the officials c oncerned to abide by this resolution’. LGB letter forwarding extracts from their inspector’s report on dispensary districts, drawing attention to deficiencies in the buildings, the small number of midwifery cases, and vaccination defaulters. He states in the case of Schull that ‘there are too many defaulters’, and notes that the magistrate in Ballydehob last year adjourned cases against defaulters ‘owing to bad wording of the summonses… this has had a very bad effect on vaccination in the neighbourhood’.
15 Jul 1920 Visiting committee report noting good conditions generally but
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