Cork Board of Guardians IE CCCA/BG/69
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BG/69/CJ
Abstract of Accounts
Scope and Content: Local Government Board (Ireland), Cork Union, Abstract of the Several Accounts of Each Electoral Division and Numbers of Paupers Relieved, &c compiled by Clerk of the Union and Auditor With 1. Overall numbers of paupers relieved listed by electoral division for each of 28 electoral divisions, and classified according to status, health, whether blind/deaf and dumb; numbers for indoor relief and outdoor relief; also number aand cost of persons emigrating. 2. Names, title and salaries of all officers employed by the Union including assistants and servants, also officers of dispensary districts. 3. Summary financial statement with abstract of accounts for each electoral division for half year, showing particulars of the poor Rates in course of collection, amounts collected and lodged. 4. Financial Statement abstract of union accounts for half year showing receipts, expenditure, and balances. Receipts include poor rate, parliamentary grant. Expenditure includes maintenance and clothing, estabishment charges, out-relief in money and in kind, expenditure under poor law acts including collectors poundage, emigration, workhouse burials, elections, medical charities and vaccinations and registration acts, under public health act 1878 (sanitary and burial ground purposes), superannuation, labourer’s act, cattle disease. 4. Insurance Return for Cork Union, recording overall insurance expenditure. 5. Abstract of the Provision Account showing quantities and cost of articles of food and necessaries consumed in the Cork Union Workhouse in the half year, and daily average number of paupers relieved. Articles include flour, indian meal, eggs, milk, soup beef, mutton, tea, port wine, whiskey, porter, lard, butter, potatoes, coal, soap, and candles. Total cost for 2277 paupers (year ending 29 Sep 1887) is £7945.4.3. (Also gives amounts for years ending 29 Sep 1886 and 25 Mar 1887). Printed in Cork by Flynn and Co. Printers and Stationers, 66 Georges Street, 1888.
Date : Half Year ending 29 Sep 1887
Level : Item
Extent : 8pp
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