Cork workhouse Board of Guardians (BG69)

Cork Board of Guardians IE CCCA/BG/69

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2 Jan 1847 – 31 Dec 1847

Includes: (2 Jan 1847) concerning vaccination scheme and contracts for Cork Union ( 4 Mar 1847) from Board of Health Office, Dublin, enclosing copies of letters and resolutions such as, from Henry O’Brien, MD, Physician of the Carrigaline Dispensary concerning spread of fever amongst the ‘ very distressed inhabitants ’ , the need for a fever hospital and noting, ‘Fro m the extreme poverty and destitution of the People, there can be no doubt that unless some place of Refuge be immediately procured for them, the great Majority of the sick in this neighbourhood must die for want of the common necessaries of life’. Board of Health recommend that temporary provision should be made as the fever Hospital being erected will not meet the ’immediate exigencies of the case’. (1 Jul 1847) Circular from PLC, concerning ending of Temporary Relief Act advances and the Irish Relief Extension Act, which includes certain additional relief powers for Guardians for the destitute poor.

5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Missing

1 Jan 1849 – 31 Dec 1849 27 Jan 1849 – 31 Dec 1850 3 Jan 1851 – 19 Dec 1851 10 Feb 1852 – 22 Dec 1852 3 Jan 1853 – 30 Dec 1853 7 Jan 1854 – 30 Dec 1854 2 Jan 1855 – 31 Dec 1855 1 Jan 1856 – 30 Dec 1856

10. 11. 12. 13.

Includes: (8 Jan 1856) Appointment of an Agriculturalist, and reduction in number of teachers. (5 Jul 1856) Order of House of Commons for returns of the number of sick in Belfast, Cork and Galway workhouses.

14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26.

2 Jan 1857 – 30 Dec 1858 3 Jan 1859 – 31 Dec 1860

Missing

2 Jan 1862 – 30 Dec 1862 2 Jan 1863 – 30 Dec 1864 2 Jan 1865 – 29 Dec 1865 2 Jan 1866 – 7 May 1867 19 Dec 1866 – 31 Dec 1867 2 Jan 1868 – 22 Dec 1868 2 Jan 1869 – 22 Dec 1869 6 Jan 1870 – 30 Dec 1870 3 Jan 1871 – 30 Nov 1871 3 Jan 1872 – 10 Dec 1872

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