Schull Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/145
adding ‘we find general dissatisfaction among the male inmates in the body of the house and we presume their treatment is bad’. [See also 27 Dec 1920] Resolution acknowledging ‘the a uthority of Dail Eireann as the duly elected government of the Irish people’. 9 Aug 1920 Relieving officer’s letter regarding a boarded out child whose foster-parents refuse to have returned to the workhouse. The officer is ordered to find out ‘is he [ie, the foster-father] inclined to keep him, if so, how
much per week he is willing to give him as wages’. Copy of auditor’s report dated 22 July 1920 read.
Resolution passed revising the dietary to include beef four days a week ‘and fish (when procurable) fo r the other 3 days for each inmate for dinner’.
23 Aug 1920 Order fixing the weekly charge for old age pensioners in the workhouse hospital at seven shillings and six pence. Ordered, that tenders be invited for the oat crop in the workhouse farm. 6 Sep 1 920 Resolution ‘protesting against the inhuman and tyrannical treatment meted out to the brave and self-sacrificing lord mayor of Cork and the other hunger strikers’. [Meeting adjourned in protest to 20 Sep] 20 Sep 1920 Order stating that the guardians wi ll ‘do their best to comply with the request’ from the Dail that ‘certain facilities be given to the RIC members who have resigned’. [The meeting also approved a resolution received from Sinn Fein on the boycotting of goods from north east Ulster.] 4 Oct 1920 Letter from clerk of Bantry Union read, stating ‘we are thinking of taking on Bantry House for an infirmary and will have to send the other inmates elsewhere as we are now put out of all the main workhous e buildings’. It is added ‘Mrs L eigh-White has objected to admit cancer consumptive or fever cases into the wing of the Bantry House which she is giving’. The board agree to take in patients, once beds and equipment is provided. 13 Oct 1920 Resolution sending two representatives to a meeting in Cork ‘ re a general scheme of amalgamation of workhouses’. [See also 22 Nov 1920 and 16 May 1921] 18 Oct 1920 Resolved, ‘that we the members of the Schull union authorise the clerk to forward minutes of all meetings to the Local Government of Dail Eireann [sic] in future instead of the British LG Board’. [See 28 Mar 1921, when officials were notified that communication with the LGB ‘will be deemed a treasonable practice and dealt with accordingly’.]
22 Nov 1920 Appointments made to permanent Conciliation Board.
14 Feb 1921 Letter from Cork County Council asking the board to reconsider its estimate and demand for the coming year ‘with a view to eliminating therefrom all classes of expenditure not of an urgent nature or absolutely
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